MotherGather

diblog | May 26, 2010

In the summer of 1971 I was 21. I discovered that I was pregnant.  I was single and had just finished my second year of teaching.  I was visiting my step-brother and his wife in Niagara Falls when I found out.
I knew right away how I was going [...]

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Tags: adoption, episiotomy, first child, hospital, long labour, nitrous oxide, single mothers, vaginal, younger mothers

diblog | May 2, 2010

Thank you for being here! I hope you find what you came for.

Here is the story behind MotherGather. When I was pregnant, I asked practically every mother I could find to tell me her birth stories.  I wanted to hear what birth is really like, not the hypothetical situations you read about in pregnancy books [...]

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