Our stop today on our Virtual Book Tour is Meghan at The Exponent. Meghan was one of the contributors to our book and her story “Healing through Motherhood” is in the Legacy section. It is one of my favorite stories in the book. I really appreciated her honest and kind review of our book, and […]
Review at the Exponent: “It is hard not to feel connected to other women through it”. Read More »
Today I am excited to introduce Bonnie Blythe as our next stop on our virtual book tour. Bonnie has been a great help and one of our biggest cheerleaders as we’ve birthed this book. I really appreciated her thoughts about how this book helped her reflect on her own births and those of other women
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I am so pleased to introduce Jocelyn from “We Talk of Christ” as our stop today on our Virtual Book Tour. Jocelyn is expecting her fourth baby and so I was so excited when she wanted to review our book. I consider Jocelyn to be on the most spiritually in-tune women I know and so
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Today’s stop on our Virtual Book Tour is at A Well Behaved Mormon Woman written by Kathryn Skaggs. I love Kathryn’s blog and her incredible insights. I was so excited when she told me that after getting her copy of the book she ordered 4 more copies for each of her daughters for Mother’s Day!
“A Book for Every Woman” Read More »
This is the moment you all have been waiting for…. drum roll please…. The Gift of Giving Life: Rediscovering the Divine Nature of Pregnancy and Birth has been born! You can now order your own copies and if you order soon you should be able to get one in time for Mother’s Day! She is
Today’s guest post is by Susana Fierro-Baig who writes the blog Spirit-led Birth and who is in the process of writing her own spiritual birth book called ” Spirit-Led Childbearing: Applying Principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Pregnancy and Motherhood”. I think it is so wonderful that there are more and more people
Opposition in Childbearing by Susana Fierro-Baig Read More »
This is a re-post of a post I wrote for the blog about two years ago this time of year. When I wrote it we had just hatched our first clutch of little chicks. It was an incredible experience and one that we have done several times since. Spring is my favorite season because it
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This was one of the early Latter-day Saint birth stories I collected for the book. These two women, Maggie Ellen Black Rowley and her friend Louella Washburn, were some of my favorite midwives to study about. They were life long friends and worked as midwives together. When I first read their stories two years ago
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“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:34) My youngest son was born just three months ago and before he was born my husband and I decided not to find out what gender he was. With our other two children we found
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This post is from our archives. I wrote it last year after doing a lot of research into the history of the Relief Society and early LDS birth practices. If you would like a little bit more information about the history of LDS women in maternal and infant care you can read Chapter 5 of
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