By Roya Chalaki Honourable Mention My daughter turned five this year on February 20th, 2021. It was the first time among all her other...

By Rachelle Campbell Honourable Mention NOVEMBER 1, 2020 As I woke, I was surprised by the fact that I almost immediately felt the urge...

By Cassidy Piney Honourable Mention This is the story of Cassidy Piney who had a vaginal breech birth with her second daughter in...

By Michelle Barnes Honourable Mention On February 5th, 2021, after 38 weeks and 5 days of pregnancy, I had a successful Vaginal Birth...

By Tao Hipwell Honourable Mention The narrative that has been written by the major medical model about Type 1 Diabetic birth is not an...

By Marle Le Honourable Mention It seemed like a good idea. I was 32 weeks pregnant and about to leave my home in Kingston, Ontario, for a...

by Hannah Day Honourable Mention In 2015, I was pregnant with my first child and my due date was December 2, 2015. My partner and I...

By Leslie Harris Honourable Mention “Just one push, hold it… there you go… there’s your baby.” I wish I could say my labour, that both of...

by Ellie Reynolds Honourable Mention When the day came to birth my second baby, I was delighted. The lights were dim in the theatre of my...

I remember the chill of the operating room, the glare of the lights, and the shadow of green robes moving in and out of my field of...

d'Elena Luz Martinez Mention Honorable « Le monde dans lequel nous pénétrons en naissant est brutal et cruel et, en même temps, d’une...

By Ruth Daniell Honourable Mention It’s impossible to think about the birth of my first baby without thinking of the birth of my second,...

Honourable Mention I had already lost you once. I was so relieved when you decided to try again. The whole first trimester was a scary...

By Jennifer Ashton First-Place Laureate This is the original October 1979 entry taken from the Diary of the writer. Well, I have a baby...

By Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt Second-Place Laureate “We live at the edge of the miraculous.” -Henry Miller The sun hadn’t yet come up when...

By Alison Milan Second-Place Laureate I was born female. To my parents and those in attendance, I was a new baby girl who would someday...

by Marlowe Dibb Thrid-place laureate becoming pregnant as a non-binary queer person was no easy task. it took years and multiple sperm...

Jessica is the owner of Soothe Doula Services. What motivated her to start it was hearing the stories of many birthing people and their...

Lisa lives in Kitchener, Ontario with her partner and three children. She is an Ayurvedic practitioner, a Pre/Postnatal Yoga teacher,...

Jennifer Osmond, from Badger, Newfoundland, currently lives in Clarenville, Newfoundland, where she is raising her three beautiful...