Passion project

I CLEARLY RECALL every detail of my pregnancy with my first child, Grace, even now, 16 years later. While I felt incredibly informed and prepared for each phase of it, the only part I wasn’t as informed about was the immediate postpartum period, which, due to complications, turned out to be the stage that could have cost me my life.

Labour started very early the day Grace was born, and once my husband and I arrived at the hospital, things seemed to move fairly quickly. I recall the many sensations I experienced throughout my labour and the subtle and constant changes that came