After the birth of my fifth baby I struggled to enjoy the process. I dreaded waking up in the morning to my children and looked forward to bedtime only to dread waking up again the next morning to start over. I didn’t feel like I was meeting anyone’s needs successfully, including my own. I didn’t …
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McKenna shares 2 beautiful birth stories. Claire was an unassisted birth which was lovely. Sadly she died in an accident at 11 months old. McKenna discovered she was pregnant a month after Claire died and after a pregnancy filled with grief, she had a healing birth of Eden, exactly a year after Claire’s death. …
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Have you ever picked a word of the year? Did you for 2021? Do you remember what it was? Did it help you in any way? Often people don’t remember their word… but I have a simple 5 step process to guide you through God helping you choose a word for your year. Sign up …
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By Levi Mathew Savage She calls no hour of night or day her own Through heat or cold she goes her round alone Here, to bring some mortal into being There, to ease some soul that must be fleeing. She listens earnestly to tales of grief Forgets herself that she may give relief To bodies …
We are a few weeks into Come Follow Me curriculum and home led learning. So far I have mixed emotions about it. My family’s experience so far. In some ways I love having 2 hour church and more time as a family. In other ways it is sad. Because every time we sit down to …
I have always loved the islands of Hawaii. My love for these islands began with my dad telling me stories of his adventures as a missionary serving there. And once I landed there as a college student at BYU-Hawaii, I understood why. There is truly something special about the Hawaiian islands and while some may …
The Gift of Giving Life: Rediscovering the Divine Nature of Pregnancy and Birth offers something that no other book has before–a spiritual look at pregnancy, birth and mothering by and for LDS women and other women of faith. With inspiring birth stories and essays from dozens of real LDS women, scriptures, words of the prophets and …
The Midwife: A Biography of Laurine Ekstrom Kingston By Victoria Burgess Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books 2012 I don’t know if anyone else out there loves reading midwife memoirs but I do. I noticed this biography of Laurine Ekstrom Kingston on kindle and decided to give it a try. The book is broken up …
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The Gift of Giving Life has a friend! It can be lonely when you are the only LDS birth book on the block so it is nice when a new friend moves in right? We think so. It is wonderful that more voices are testifying to the sacred nature of the childbearing process. So when …
Has anyone else found this treasure? I had been eyeing this new book, The First Fifty Years of Relief Society, and recently found out that there are portions of it already online with plans for the entire book to be available online within the year (source). The timing of the release of this book is perfect with …
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