The 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.