Stories

The name Noor means ‘light’; she was actually born at the first light on the day she was due. The blackbird had just started singing and the great tits had finished their first round through our small garden. Noor was delivered in our living room where the toys had...

Machteld narrowly escaped a trauma from her first delivery. As soon as she is pregnant for the second time she resolutely decides on consulting a different gynaecologist and on having a delivery at the polyclinic with her personal midwife. “It felt as if I was in...

After giving birth to a star gazer, this mother does not anticipate a smooth, second childbirth. And yet, it turns out to be a birth beyond her wildest dreams.My story is one that I could only have dreamt of, so perfect it has turned out to be. As my previous...

It was on the first day of the new year that Cis saw the light of life. His mother, Joke, describes his more or less unexpected home delivery and shares suggestions about how she prepared during pregnancy for the birth.It is with great joy and happiness that I am...

Ten years ago a midwife described how she had to cope with a psychosis after the birth of her first child. Now she’s rereading her words reflecting on what has become of her and her family. “I would have liked more support during my pursuit”. Picture by Edgar...

Picture by Lisa Helsen  Every year on my birthday, my mother used to tell me, at different times throughout the day, '15 years ago ' (or whatever age I was that year) ... ‘around this time I was still unsuspectingly mowing the lawn’ ... ‘ your father was...