Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author as a young girl. Photo Courtesy of Kali Fox-Jirgl In 1977, when I was born, my original birth certificate was locked ...

Instantly, the second-guessing began. Yes, I had given birth three times, but I had no medical experience. What if I got squeamish and was more of a bother than a help? Could I be a reassuring ...

Two months after giving birth to my daughter, I noticed something was unusual, which led to my diagnosis of anaplastic oligodendroglioma. My brain cancer story started shortly after I gave birth to my ...

Ms. Finney Boylan is the author of the forthcoming “Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.” My wife was the one who told me that the birth certificate for Baby Girl Boylan had finally arrived ...

In 1977, when I was born, my original birth certificate was locked away by the courts, and the truth of my birth was withheld from me. What should have been the beginning of my story was treated as ...