I experienced my first homebirth, and lo and behold, met my daughter Fiona for the first time…
It was 2001 and I was in my final semester of Graduate School. My husband and I had a 10 year old (corn? kind of like a palm?) tree in our apartment that bloomed with a wierd stalk of drippy fragrant flowers the night of the birth, filling the apartment with scent. I’ll never forget it. The birth took about 5 hours and I have it videotaped (the video became a part of my thesis show;o) Here’s a comic that I did back in 2003 to commemorate the birth (note to self, do a comic about that plant!):

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