Arrival Stories

I wanted to love this book. Unfortunately, all of these stories are traumatic. As a doula, I get it—many pregnancies are really traumatic. I still feel that there should have been warnings, or the stories should be grouped by topic, maybe. Beyond that, a few other things: so many of these people had night nurses, and women are not the only bodies that can gestate.

If you want stories about birth and labor, as the women around you instead.