I tell the mother of modern midwifery that she has let me down. **If you wanted a natural birth and didn’t get one, leave a comment on this blog post for Ina May Gaskin.** Part 2 of a three-part series on natural birth.
Join me as I attempt to rewrite my traumatic birth story, four years after the fact. Part 1 of a three-part series on natural birth.
Something that has terrified me ever since Sasha turned three is the idea that she is now capable of forming memories that will stick. She doesn’t remember breaking her leg; she doesn’t remember the neighbors she used to play with every single day when she was one and two . . . and zero. But […]
You’ve been asking for Longest Shortest to be more frequent; now’s your chance to make it so.
We conclude the I’ve Got News series with the birth of Ellen’s baby . . . and the project Tom took on to cope.
A war correspondent on childbirth vs dodging a sniper.
This is probably going to be a controversial topic with LST-ers, but for any of you who have ever felt betrayed by the natural/home birth movement, you must, must, must read Brenda Shaughnessy’s poem “Our Andromeda” from her book of the same title. I talked in episode 4 about feeling like I had failed at […]
Two weeks before their due date, Ellen and Tim reflect on the game of Being Awesome at Being Adult.