Processing birth stories alone vs. with someone who gets it. Plus pretty pictures, podcast experiments, and my daughter's unassisted birth story

Dear Reader, You didn't get an email from me last week! Did you notice? The reason for this is that I was at a birth on the morning I had planned to write the newsletter, and then again the following morning I had their postpartum follow-up visit. Though I am sorry to have missed writing to you, it was a very happy interruption to my usual workweek. The birth was absolutely beautiful in every way. Buttery smooth, family-centered, and light-filled. I had the honor of making photographs of it...