The BIRTH Oral History Archive is a project to collect and preserve first-hand stories of childbirth and pregnancy loss, capturing how each birth story is remembered, re-experienced, and retold. Each Participant Narrator shares their story over the course of two interviews that are ultimately
woven together to reflect their experience, their story — their birth.

The Archive preserves these stories to help build a better understanding of the experience of pregnancy and birth, and the complex history of childbirth. We have collected stories of birth in homes, hospitals, and birth centers, spanning more than 30 years. By preserving these stories the Archive hopes to have a positive impact on contemporary birth practices and build a meaningful “community of remembering” through partnership and collaboration with Archive narrators.