Optimism amid the eruptions

Now is the time to be your very best American self

vol. 2 issue 26

Greetings,

The day my son was born, the doula we had hired to help us with what we intended to be an entirely natural childbirth, grabbed my hand while I was in between contractions, and with bright eyes asked, “Are you ready?”

Because I was just on the precipice of the transition portion of the child birth process — the one where the uteru…