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Collecting Stories

By: redtentwomen July 18, 2024June 10, 2024

Femininity, Monthly Themes, relationshipsBirth Trauma, birthing stories, Childbirth, doula, Listening, Nicole Boehrig2 Comments

“I’ve never told anyone this,” she whispered and leaned across the cafe table. She proceeded to share the harder, truer side of her birth story–the story of when she felt powerless, voiceless, and ignored while laboring with her first child. Two years later, she still felt confused. Her baby was healthy. Her body physically recovered…

Keeping Watch

By: redtentwomen February 17, 2020February 16, 2020

Faith, FemininityBirth Trauma, hysterectomy, Pelvic Floor Damage, Pelvic Floor Surgery, Pelvic Pain, Rachel Blackston, Recovery from Trauma6 Comments

“I don’t want to die,” I say with a mix of terror and fortitude, my voice quivering as I look into my counselor’s kind eyes. I am processing a consultation with a urogynecologist over a proposed reconstructive surgery intended to repair my prolapsed bladder and remove my uterus, the space that has nourished and held…

Sweet Surrender

By: redtentwomen February 7, 2018February 7, 2018

Day to Daybirth story, Birth Trauma, Kellay Chapman, natural child birth5 Comments

“Are you done yet?” my body asked me. “No,” I said. And I would continue to say no for the next 52 hours. My first baby, a daughter named Harbor, was born October 10, 2017, at 5:27 p.m. She was born amid oxygen masks, frantic monitors, IVs, doctors, nurses, midwives, a disappearing heartbeat, and a…