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Twelve years following a traumatic birth, Salena knew next time would be different. She shares her and her wife’s journey to getting pregnant with their son and her healing home birth story as a plus size woman. Healing Home Birth For months on end, Salena and her wife tried to get pregnant via home insemination. …

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Thanks to Myriad Women’s Health for sponsoring this article. When I was plus size and pregnant, my care provider talked to me about getting a noninvasive prenatal screen to see if my baby had a chance of having a chromosome condition like Down syndrome. I didn’t want to do the screening. At the age of …

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