Birth Stories

You had a due date. Because that’s what doctors and midwives give you. Your due date was March 9th 2016. It would have been...

September 2, 2007, twelve days before my due date, I began having contractions and losing my mucus plug. It was my first pregnancy and...

She straddled the edge           And felt into eternity. The edge of the old               ...

Love. I thought I knew what this meant, but I truly learned the meaning when I welcomed my son into the world on July...

I was 34 when I became pregnant, so my doctors considered me high risk. They did as many ultrasounds as they liked and tested...

Ten years ago, at the delicate age of 16, I was pregnant. Coming from young parents myself (my mom whom was 19, and my...

It was August 26th at 3:30am that I awoke to waves of rushes. I was so thrilled as my due date had come and...

I had never even heard the term “doula” before I moved to Maui. Lani Morris says she prefers the term “labor assistant” anyway, but...

I clenched the rail of the balcony and scowled at the West Maui Mountains. I really wished I was in labor. I was 40...

Birth is truly the grand finale to the great journey of pregnancy. For so many years I was teary-eyed, envisioning birthing my baby and then...