From the time my children were very small, we've had a family tradition that 
I re-tell their birth stories on their birthdays. Now they are all in their 
twenties, and they all know the stories off by heart - how the labour 
started, where I walked as the contractions got stronger, who was with me 
providing support, the funny parts, the parts where I yelled, and most 
importantly the part about how truly wonderful it felt when they were born 
and how happy everyone was.

We need to keep telling our stories. That's how mothers continued to believe 
that breastfeeding was possible when hardly anyone was doing it - because 
the women who were breastfeeding shared their experiences and stories with 
other new mothers. We need to talk about birth with young children (male and 
female) in our everyday conversations, and with teens, and with pregnant 
women, too. It is hard to get a new view of birth when you are pregnant, but 
not impossible.

Teresa Pitman

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