Labor Day

I have an essay in this anthology, but I am rating this based on the work by my fellow contributors, women like Cheryl Strayed, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Dani Shapiro, and many, many, more. This anthology offers so many diverse birth stories, and each took my breath away: they're honest, they're harrowin......more

WHITE LADY BABY FEELINGS TIME. Still worth reading if you're pregnant or have been pregnant, but don't buy it. I got RULL tired of the incessant "the only good birth is the home/unmedicated/'natural' birth and any other birth is only worthy of lesser assholes who feed their children food with high f......more

3.5 It’s a mixed of experiences. They don’t harp on things, it’s like sitting with some friends and hearing their birth stories and how they felt about the choices they made. Some aren’t sunshine and rainbows, trigger warnings for miscarriage and still birth. I just took it as, these are important st......more

I just gorged on thirty birth stories, and my head is spinning. I remember the first couple of birth stories I ever heard, pregnant with my first baby. Tearing skin, stitches, blood and mess, pooping, all things I had not ever associated with these women I thought I knew. And yet, those stories help......more

Includes a lot of things to expect/not expect during giving birth process. Recommended......more