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Real women, real births

Birth stories from women like you

Not the highlight reel. The actual night — what surprised you, what nobody said, what you would tell a friend. Every one is read by Lissa before it is shared, and only with the writer’s permission.

This page is waiting for its first story. If you have one, the form below is where it goes — and you can ask for it to stay private, just for Lissa.

Tell yours

Share your birth story

The good, the hard, the parts you still think about. Long is fine. Unfinished is fine. There is no wrong way to tell it.

Permission

Nothing is published automatically. Every story is read by Lissa before it goes anywhere, and only with the permission you give above.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John 16:21

The other door

The Gate

Nobody hands you the manual.

The fathers' side of this house. Written for him, in his language — so you can send him something rather than summarize it.

The Workshop · The Forge · The Watch · The Field

Show him The Gate

The other door

The Village

You don't have to do motherhood alone.

Lissa's side of this house, and where most of it began. If she sent you here, this is what she has been reading.

The Well · The Table · The Garden · The Chapel · The Home

Go into the Village