In the News

Feb. 27, 2023

Today

"One woman is opening up about the reality of giving birth and millions of people on the internet are watching..."

Today Show

July 28, 2023

Upworthy

"Jenny Recotta is a labor and delivery nurse turned potter who has combined her passions for nursing and pottery by creating popular clay figurines about the reality of giving birth. In a video clip, the 36-year-old uses her pottery wheel and a lump of clay to demonstrate how a woman's cervix dilates while giving birth..."

Upworthy

Feb. 28, 2023

Romper

"In 2018, Jenny Recotta was a labor and delivery nurse who needed a “season of rest,” she tells Romper. She was struggling with burnout and found solace in learning to throw pottery. Since then, Recotta has managed to blend her two loves, nursing and pottery, by creating her popular “placenta mug” after working long shifts surrounded by birth workers. More recently, Recotta found another way to blend those two worlds..."

Romper

March 1, 2023

Daily Mail

'How amazing are our bodies?' Labor and delivery nurse goes viral after using CLAY and a pottery wheel to show how a woman's cervix expands from the size of a blueberry to a BAGEL during birth...

Daily Mail