Seeking Earnestly the Best Gifts
What does it mean to have power? What does it mean to em-power? What makes a person powerful and why?
Women’s Rights
Women’s History Month on The Gift of Giving Life
March is National Woman’s History Month, so we thought we would highlight some LDS Women and their contributions to birth and mothering! Look for a post at least once a week. Make sure you also celebrate the history you are making in your life!
The Thirteenth Apostle: Susa Young Gates
Keep busy in the face of discouragement -Susa Young Gates I couldn’t resist writing a little about Susa Young Gates. Susa was the 41st child born to Brigham Young, daughter to Lucy Bigelow Young. She was mother to thirteen children, only four of whom lived to adulthood. She was a gifted stenographer, writer, poet, and …
Giving Birth isn’t just about “A Healthy Baby”
Not long ago I heard a comment from a woman that went something like this: “I have been really appalled to hear so many of my friends talk about their “experience” giving birth. It seems to me that they are so preoccupied with making sure that they have a good experience that they don’t think …
A Pioneer Birth Story: Emmeline B. Wells
With Pioneer Day approaching I wanted to share a birth story from one of our pioneer sisters. I was pleased to find something that Emmeline B. Wells wrote. There are so many titles and achievements attached to our 5th General Relief Society President: writer, poet, pioneer, teacher, leader, political activist, women’s suffragist, and mother. …
A Birth Story Born of Women’s Rights
With all that has been said about the mommy wars recently, I wanted to highlight what Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women’s rights pioneer and philosopher, shared about one of her births: “I never felt such sacredness in carrying a child as I have in the case of this one. She is the largest and most vigorous baby I …
