Author: thirdstoryies

Transition is the word that the books use to describe that final stage of labor just prior to the delivery. The word is sufficient, I suppose, in describing the deliberate change of pace from the earlier work to the point that a person’s body is actually capable of turning loose the baby within. But it…

I had some trouble coming up with a title for this portion of the story. “Standstill” came to mind, but didn’t quite capture the feeling that we were up against around midnight that night. We had paced ruts in the floor, dimmed the lights and rocked on the birthing ball, and tried to will this…