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DSF Blog
- Dec 15, 2021
- 8 min
Embracing and Accepting the Unknown
By Maria Manecuta Honourable Mention It was a quiet Friday night at home. I was relaxing at 39 weeks and 1 day – my first pregnancy....
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DSF Blog
- Dec 8, 2021
- 6 min
Finding Solace in Our Home
By Rachelle Campbell Honourable Mention NOVEMBER 1, 2020 As I woke, I was surprised by the fact that I almost immediately felt the urge...
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DSF Blog
- Dec 1, 2021
- 8 min
Bailey's Breech Birth
By Cassidy Piney Honourable Mention This is the story of Cassidy Piney who had a vaginal breech birth with her second daughter in...
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DSF Blog
- Nov 10, 2021
- 6 min
Business Trip Baby
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...
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DSF Blog
- Oct 13, 2021
- 8 min
From the Orgasmic to the Surgical – Two Birth Stories
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...
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DSF Blog
- Sep 29, 2021
- 8 min
New Seasons
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,...
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DSF Blog
- Sep 22, 2021
- 8 min
Let Me Tell You About Your Birth
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...
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DSF Blog
- Sep 15, 2021
- 8 min
Dear Diary - October 1979
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...
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DSF Blog
- Sep 8, 2021
- 7 min
Winter Rose
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...
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DSF Blog
- Sep 8, 2021
- 8 min
Mama Fits
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...
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Marlowe Dibb
- Sep 1, 2021
- 7 min
A whole new journey
by Marlowe Dibb Thrid-place laureate becoming pregnant as a non-binary queer person was no easy task. it took years and multiple sperm...
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Aly Guildford
- Mar 12, 2021
- 6 min
Miles to Journey Through
Aly has settled in Huntsville Ontario. She met her husband in high school and they have been together ever since. They currently have two...
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Jennifer Roberts
- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
After Hours
Jennifer Osmond, from Badger, Newfoundland, currently lives in Clarenville, Newfoundland, where she is raising her three beautiful...
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