“Having all of these Black and brown people helping to nurture me during this time was truly one of the most healing experiences,” writes Evelynn Escobar in her essay on postpartum recovery, which is part of Image Issue 3 – Parents Are Cool!
This story is part of Parents Are Cool!, the third issue of Image, which explores the myriad ways in which L.A. parents practice the craft of care.I had Isla in my bathtub, at home. Birth is the most gnarliest thing of life.
No one tells you that when you’re in labor your hands shake so much. My midwife, Debbie Allen, was like, “Just reach down, her head is right,” and I’m like, “I can’t reach down, I’m shaking too much!” So she checked, and she’s like, “Your water hasn’t broken yet. Do you want me to break your water or do you want to reposition by sitting on the toilet and seeing if that will break it?”Debbie Allen is a traditional home birth midwife in L.A.
I get on all fours and I have two big pushes, and then I hear, “Look down and pick up your baby.” There is Isla in the water, her eyes wide open looking back at me. It was literally the most peaceful moment. You’ve just been in the trenches, you know? As beautiful as birth is, it’s this totally traumatic thing on your body. The pain that you’re experiencing is unworldly and then all of a sudden, I’m holding her and it’s just like all the pain goes away.My placenta hadn’t come out yet.
Escobar has Isla at home, the same place she’d spend the next six weeks focusing on breastfeeding, recovery and getting caught up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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