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CERIDWEN MORRIS is a writer, mother and childbirth educator. She is co-author of It's All Your Fault and From the Hips as well as several screenplays (for Miramax and HBO). Ceridwen is on the board of The Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York and teaches childbirth classes at Tribeca Parenting. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

REBECCA ODES is a writer, artist and mother. She was inspired to write From The Hips during her first pregnancy when she discovered that every pregnancy book she came across made her feel either anxious or irritated. Before becoming obsessed with the transition to motherhood, Rebecca co-authored three books about body, sexuality and identity issues for young women. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

DANIELLE ELWOOD is a Connecticut Mother to two boys, Camden, and Benjamin, and wife to William Volunteer Firefighter, and Veteran Marine. She is expecting her third and very unexpected child in May of 2011. Danielle's personal blog Momotics led to such projects as Lamaze's Giving Birth with Confidence, and Pregnancy.Pampers.com. She's also a Lamaze Educated Childbirth Educator in Training, and Doula. Be sure to catch her on Twitter [@]BirthBabiesBlog

MONICA BIELANKO was born and raised on the wild frontier of late 1970's Utah. She once went to see an unknown band from Philly and three months later she married the guitar player. They are still hitched six years later. She lived in Brooklyn, New York for a few years and she misses the Big Apple bad. She works in TV news. She loves nachos and beer and music and books and her two black labs. Her heart belongs to her toddler, Violet and the sweet unborn little boy cooking in her humongous belly. Oh yeah, she also likes wine. When she's not babbling you can find her at thegirlwho.net

MICHELLE HORTON has covered everything from beauty to lifedisabled to politics, but since having her son at the ripe age of 23, she's been a regular contributor to Babble.com where she blogs at Familydisabled. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and son, and occasionally updates her blog at Mama Never Said.

THE STORY OF FROM THE HIPS: When we got pregnant, we were good friends with a lot in common. We bonded over the same physical dramas and difficult decisions, but we often took different approaches. Having babies brought us closer, but also put our differences in high relief. From The Hips reflects this huge range of experiences and attitudes. Because no matter how much the media tends to generalize, pregnancy is as unique an experience as anything else.