On September 18, 2014, the day after my due date, my doula and dear friend Anne and I went to Minnehaha Falls, a beautiful waterfall park in Minneapolis. I’d heard that climbing stairs could get labor going, and it was the perfect early fall day to stroll along the river and climb the stairs that lead to the water. We walked, we lunged, we hugged trees. We saw a blue heron and an egret in a dead tree together and remarked how strange it was to see the two birds together and in a tree as opposed to on water. We decided that they were my two sisters, there to encourage my baby to come out. It worked. Read more
