Conceiving Courage
It has now been almost a year since I stared at that surprisingly positive pregnancy test.
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Processing Motherhood with Poetry
So we moved this summer. In the process of unpacking, I found a composition book with notes, freewriting, story ideas, and poetry from the Creative Writing class I took at BYU during the last semester of my senior year. I was newly pregnant with my first child at the time and thus processing a lot
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“Your family is complete”
There was a time during my fifth pregnancy when I couldn’t see an end to my baby creating. I wanted to have as many children as my body could carry. I truly wanted to leave the decision of the number of children I had to the Lord. I was willing to have 9 or more if that was what He wanted. I never wanted to be done.
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Grand and Great Grand Multiparas
Or in other words, you have had lots of babies! A grand multipara is a woman who has already delivered five or more infants who have achieved a gestational age of 24 weeks or more. A great grand multipara has delivered seven or more infants beyond 24 weeks’ gestation. So when you are having your sixth child (like
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The big V
After Rob and I decided we were really “done” I said again, “Why don’t you have a vasectomy.” This was actually where this all began. Way back in March our oldest son broke his jaw and arm in a mountain biking accident. It was actually a very spiritually moving experience in many ways. An unexpected
I finally feel done having babies
I write this with a heavy but lightened heart. My miscarriage shifted something within my heart. For YEARS I have struggled with if we were done having babies. I felt resigned to being done because my husband seemed pretty adament against having more. But in my heart I wondered. I never felt “done” like so
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God had led this journey for our family
I was so excited to have Corinne one of our readers share her experience of deciding to have another baby and the exciting miracle that followed. When I was pregnant with my third child, I had this niggling feeling that we were done. I didn’t know if maybe adoption was in our future or if
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In Wisdom and Order
A year ago, I thought I knew the will of the Lord for my family: more babies down the road. But now I’m not so sure. I just don’t know what to do about those two spirits I once believed were waiting for us to welcome them. And I couldn’t help feeling a pang of guilt, knowing that my womb may never again give life, when I heard Elder Oaks’ General Conference talk.
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Calling = no baby?
Not long after the Condom Fairy came, I got a new calling in church. I must first start by saying that I had always envisioned being in Young Women’s one day while pregnant and with a new baby. In my patriarchal blessing it talks about serving the Young Women and their seeing me in the
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Opening up spiritually to a baby
I had another appointment with Pam and admitted that for a while now I am sad each time I get my period. That I want another boy baby. Of course Rob wants a girl. So we worked on letting go of the fears I have I WON’T get pregnant and I will be sad.
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