Welcoming in new life: Nitanis' family story -- From the heart of a doula -- Growing our bliss-ball baby: our pregnancy in photographs -- Birthing traditions: birth blessingways --Birthing traditions: creating a belly cast -- Birthing traditions: homemade herbals -- A registered midwife for the Haida Gwaii -- Anicca's birth: as told by her Appa -- Birth after bereavement -- Birthing traditions: yoga and childbirth -- Birthing traditions: imintuuthia - belly button ceremony -- Birthing traditions: umbilical cord and placenta practices -- A midwife gives birth to her own baby -- Baby sister's birth -- Birthing traditions: moss bags.