Doula's Silence

She has held 218 babies into the world. She has never held one of her own.Mira is a doula—gifted, present, professional. She dims the lights. She breathes with the mother. She says the right things, because she has said them two hundred and seventeen times before.What she doesn't say: she has been pregnant five times. She has never become a mother.When a beloved client invites Mira to a traditional Indian baby blessing, something in Mira breaks open in front of a room full of strangers. And what pours out changes everything she thought she understood about grief, about womanhood, and about why she does this work at all.The Doula's Silence is a luminous, devastating short story about the lives women carry quietly—and the extraordinary grace found when we finally put them down.Perfect for readers of Maggie O'Farrell, Jojo Moyes, and Roxane Gay.