I answered Heather Gallagher's question "What were you born into?" as part of a project promoting Doula Training International's Born Into This conference taking place in Austin, TX this July. Here is the story of what my parents and I were born into. I am born into a first-generation, Vietnamese family. My parents chose to birth all five of us unmedicated, because they were worried that the meds would hurt their babies. I am born in to a generation building a life after the