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Cocoon is not a pregnancy podcast. Not really. It’s not about babies. It's about you. It's about what you didn’t expect when you were expecting. It's about the messy complexities of growing...
I talk to a lot of people about their experiences of becoming parents. I am always struck by the difference in the ideas people have about p...
As a young single woman living in a punk house in LA, Sarah made an unusual choice: to become certified as a foster parent. Over the next fe...
Tysha was basically born wanting to have a family of her own, with as many children as she could handle. But she got a late start, and it se...
For 17 years Jamie had hoped to have a baby but only experienced loss after loss after loss. Meanwhile, her cousin Bonnie was watching and w...
After a bit of difficulty trying to get pregnant with their third baby together, Kristin and David decided to pursue IVF. It was an experien...
David and Kristin got married in 2008 and after taking some time to adjust and blend their lives with their 3 children, they decided it was...
When David was 30, he was a kindergarten teacher in a rough part of LA. He decided that, despite being a single man, there must be something...
Amanda was at a crossroads in her life—a tricky transitional place between bearing children and moving beyond that—when a friend asked for s...
Rebecca decided to pursue a career in medicine about the same time that she had her first baby. And it has always been an open question whet...
Four and a half years ago, Jill stood on the sidewalk and watched as another family drove away with the little boy she had given birth to da...
Robin’s first pregnancy was one of the happiest times of her life—and something she had been looking forward to since childhood. But w...
Valerie and I often talk about how, no matter when we talk to someone, we are always in the middle of their story. We continue to change and...
Andrea Weaver’s family We all know that in family planning there is no “one size fits all,” there is no, “take this quiz and find out...
Eighteen years ago, when Kelli was 24 weeks pregnant, she left work wondering if she had pushed herself too hard. She was feeling sick—somet...
When Kristy went into labor at 33 weeks gestation and had her baby via emergency c-section, it seemed like a series of small miracles took p...
It wasn’t too long after her mother died that Meg began to feel . . . tired. Maybe a little under the weather. Possibly depressed. But...
The relationship we have with our moms can be fraught and complicated. We must differentiate ourselves from our moms, but no matter what we...
Jill is, and was, a productive, contributing member of society. She has a master’s degree, she’s worked for several companies, and as a teac...
It’s often the long view of life that is the clearest. We know where we want to go, where we want to end up, but it’s the gettin...
When you are pregnant and on your way to becoming a mother there can be so many worries and wonders you have about what is going to happen t...
In this week’s mini episode JoAnna reads her essay about her baby Levi, who, after being diagnosed with trisomy-13 at 18 weeks, beat t...
Bente kept a journal when she was growing up in which she wrote that she would have 12 kids: 2 boys, then 2 girls, then 2 boys, and on and o...
“At some point, every woman needs to make peace with her uterus.” So says Liz Ostler, who has known since she was a child that s...
Before Nicole even had a chance to take a pregnancy test, her body was reacting strongly to the baby that had just begun to develop. She had...
Today’s episode is an essay written and read by Lizzie Heiselt. It takes on the “all that matters is that you have a healthy baby” idea. For...
In the days after Gina gave birth to her stillborn son , James, she wrote a record of the event on her blog. It was a beginning of her mourn...
The full human experience includes this: pregnancy, birth, life, death. And if all goes well and normally, the pregnancy is 9 months, the bi...
“Winter Fear” by Kay Ryan Is it just Winter or is this worse. Is this the year when outer damp obscures a deeper curse that spri...
Among her 5 children, Alanna Smith has had just about every type of childbirth experience you can have, and each one has left an impression...
In episode 8 , Misty told us about how when she was 18, she was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease that made it a really bad idea for her...
When she was 18 years old Misty Brough went from being a vibrant college freshman to being told that she was on the verge of death within a...
You’re 17—young, in love, full of life and hope and possibility. And then you discover that you actually are growing a life, and it se...
It’s often the first thing we do for our babies when they emerge from our bodies: put them to our breasts and hope they know what to d...
Two years ago, Suvi had a baby. He was her first and he was (and is) a beautiful, healthy boy, born from a healthy—but haunted—pregnancy. Ma...
Lots of us turn to writing when life gets tough. It’s a proven form of therapy and it let’s us understand and experience our emo...
You’re 20 weeks pregnant and it looks like something is wrong with the baby. How do you spend the rest of the pregnancy? Jodie and Adr...
There is always hope that out of every difficult, painful experience, there is something good to be gained. Lizzie tells about her own losse...
Annie and Ben Howington share their experience of helping their daughter fight childhood cancer—and what it did to their family. We all have...
Our first episode features Mary Jane Callister telling us how she’s handled two things that are both so common and yet so personal to...