By Maria Manecuta Honourable Mention It was a quiet Friday night at home. I was relaxing at 39 weeks and 1 day – my first pregnancy....

By Rachelle Campbell Honourable Mention NOVEMBER 1, 2020 As I woke, I was surprised by the fact that I almost immediately felt the urge...

By Cassidy Piney Honourable Mention This is the story of Cassidy Piney who had a vaginal breech birth with her second daughter in...

By Marle Le Honourable Mention It seemed like a good idea. I was 32 weeks pregnant and about to leave my home in Kingston, Ontario, for a...

by Ellie Reynolds Honourable Mention When the day came to birth my second baby, I was delighted. The lights were dim in the theatre of my...

By Ruth Daniell Honourable Mention It’s impossible to think about the birth of my first baby without thinking of the birth of my second,...

Honourable Mention I had already lost you once. I was so relieved when you decided to try again. The whole first trimester was a scary...

By Jennifer Ashton First-Place Laureate This is the original October 1979 entry taken from the Diary of the writer. Well, I have a baby...

By Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt Second-Place Laureate “We live at the edge of the miraculous.” -Henry Miller The sun hadn’t yet come up when...

By Alison Milan Second-Place Laureate I was born female. To my parents and those in attendance, I was a new baby girl who would someday...

by Marlowe Dibb Thrid-place laureate becoming pregnant as a non-binary queer person was no easy task. it took years and multiple sperm...

Aly has settled in Huntsville Ontario. She met her husband in high school and they have been together ever since. They currently have two...

Jennifer Osmond, from Badger, Newfoundland, currently lives in Clarenville, Newfoundland, where she is raising her three beautiful...