diblog | July 11, 2010
It was the summer of 1974. I was 24 years old, married for one year. I was pregnant for the second time, but this was going to be my baby to keep.
My pregnancy was fairly uneventful. The only craving I had was for fried shrimp at 2 in the [...]
diblog | May 13, 2010
Like many things to do with pregnancy, it’s odd how much women’s stories can help other women more than any of the books out there. I learned that labour doesn’t necessarily happen like in the books – I was four centimetres dilated (beginning of active labour, right books?), but having 2-minute contractions every 2.5 minutes [...]
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 [...]
