BAKER CITY — Sleepless nights.

Playground fights.

Childbirth.

The first day of school.

All of the sweet, bittersweet and tough moments of motherhood are wrapped into one play with “Motherhood Out Loud,” presented by Eastern Oregon Regional Theatre.

“It’s a sweet little play. A lot of women telling their stories about motherhood,” said Abby Dennis, who directs and acts in the play.

“Motherhood Out Loud” runs for two weekends: May 10-12 and May 17-19. Shows are at 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays, at the theater, 2101 Main St.

Tickets are $13 or $11 for EORT members and $8 for students. Dennis said the play can be considered PG-13 for language and content.

Tickets are available in advance at easternoregonregionaltheatre.com, by calling 541-523-9652 and at the door.

The play is presented in five chapters as the characters tell stories of motherhood from various perspectives. Some are presented as monologues, and others are conversations between women.

The cast of women range in age from 16 to 74, and there is one man in the play.

The scene of three women going through childbirth bounces from one experience to the next.

“I tell the nurse I feel something. The nurse looks at the monitor and says, ‘Nope, not yet,’” Dennis said, rolling her eyes.

And then it cuts to the newborn phase, and one character gets this advice from her own mother: “Your heart’s going to be broken every which way but loose.”

Another scene finds Dennis on the floor of a baby’s room.

“My baby is a sleep terrorist,” she said. “When I leave the house, I ask my husband if I look okay or like a crazy person. Sometimes he doesn’t answer.”

Then it’s the first day of school, with one mother waving goodbye as her daughter skips into the building, another who tries to escort her child into the school, and a third looking at the free hours stretching before her until school is out.

Other topics are “the sex talk,” dating, adoption, surrogacy, stepmothers and what happens when your child gets married and comes home with a spouse.

“Each mom is a balance between the funny parts of motherhood and the absolute wretched parts,” Dennis said. “It makes you appreciate mothers. It really is a special play.”

The cast features Dennis, Chris Lilley, Tina Ota, Channin Becker, Emese Marvin, Cindy Ratterman, Elisabeth Munsell, Jamie Adams, Sue Samet and Rob Gormulek.