When kindness, bravery, and love saved a life
“It seems like you know something I don’t.” This from a vulnerable and frightened nineteen year old college freshman; pregnant and scheduled to abort her child in three days time.…
“Another girl, are you going to try for a boy?”
"It’s a girl!" I remember yelling as the pink silly string came out. Here we were at our first gender reveal party and announcing our third baby was going to…
Understanding what makes a woman choose abortion
As the country prepares for a decision from the Supreme Court’s hearing of the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that could possibly overturn Roe v. Wade (the case…
My Mother’s Choice
With with a generous dose of hindsight I attempted to assess my mother’s mood in the old picture. Sitting with company around the dining room table, wearing a loose house…
The top 5 lies women are told who are facing an unplanned pregnancy
I have heard some pretty lame lies in my lifetime. Lies are told by children to get out of trouble, thinking that if they lie, they might be believed and…
No, I will not call breastfeeding “chestfeeding”
Update 8/13/21: The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine has caved and will now call breastfeeding, "chestfeeding" and refer to women as “human milk-feeding individuals.” Hard pass. Honestly, it's offense that women are…
I want to be called a woman, not a “birthing person”
I have eight children, seven of whom I've given birth to myself. I'm a woman and have the necessary reproductive organs to grow a child inside my womb and then…
Dr. Dale Glenn poses for a photo with Lavi Mounga and Raymond at Kapi'olani Medical Center, May 1, 2021.
Woman had no idea she was pregnant and gave birth on a transatlantic flight over the Pacific Ocean
Well, this is one of those birth stories that will be told at Thanksgiving for the rest of this kid's life. You sometimes hear about women who don't know they…
Pregnant Leading into Breastfeeding for Almost a Decade
An entire decade. After celebrating my fourth baby's 1st birthday, I have come to realize that by the time I am done breastfeeding her, I will have been pregnant and/or…
5 Things They Don’t Tell Men About Pregnancy
For men, pregnancy can be very confusing. There are physical changes, lifestyle changes, appetite changes, emotional changes, sleep pattern changes, hormonal changes, doctors appointments, and on top of all that,…
Here’s what giving birth during the pandemic looked like
On March 13, 2020 when the world ended in California, I was 20 weeks pregnant. My husband and two girls went for my anatomy scan where we were to find…
We need to stop telling women miscarriage is like a bad period
Trigger warning: miscarriage. Just recently, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry shared they are expecting another child after suffering a miscarriage last year. Whether you care about celebrities or not, I…
