Inside Voice

Shelly Mazzanoble reads her hilarious post '6 Reasons My Vagina Is Happy I Had A C-Section' - tell us about your vagina birth story! A million years ago, Shelly Mazzanoble had a short story published in a literary magazine calledWhetstone. She was paid $50 which she spent on a keg of beer and threw a great, big party. Motivated by her strong desire to curate menus for cocktail parties and her friends' penchant for drinking free beer, Shelly has gone on to publish short stories and essays in Carve, The Seattle Times,Scary Mommy, In the Powder Room, Pregnant Chicken, Blunt Moms, and has been syndicated on popular websites such as TODAY Parents and BlogHer, where she has been named a featured writer. She writes a regular column called Mom in the Middle for the Seattle-based parenting network, PEPs (Program for Early Parent Support) where she seeks to scare daunt forewarn enlighten new parents about the  terrors joys of parenthood and has recently realized h