This blog is a collection of stories, secrets, memories, reflections, confessions, questions, poems, thoughts etc. submitted by Birth Braid participants. Participants have the option to share with credit or anonymously. To submit a story please fill out the form below. You are welcome to submit as many entries as you would like. You don’t have to make a braid to share a story. Some entries may be selected to be shared with the braid sculpture when it is publicly exhibited. Stories are presented here without any editing, in exhibitions they may be excerpted.
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The intensity of those first few months of postpartum life is still unthinkable, even after experiencing it twice - the pure joy in holding my baby, the sheer panic of the responsibility, the anxiety of how vulnerable everything is, the uncertainty in your own ability, the safety in feeling the weight of them on my chest, the surreality in functioning at night. I don't think it matters how many times you do it, it is always the craziest rollercoaster you've ever been on.
— Anonymous