This birth story is from my friend Shauna. We met each other in a modern dance class at BYU years ago and recently we “found” each other again through our blogs. I asked Shauna to share her story because I think it is a wonderful reminder that God cares about his daughters and their experiences […]
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by Heather “Singing Madonna” by Brian Kershisnik When I was just a few months old I was having a particularly rough time and my poor mother had been up half the night with me trying to calm me down. She said that she had tried everything: fed me, rocked me, changed me, held me, but
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“The Mother of all Living” by Al Young It has been nearly two years, but I still remember distinctly a series of nights when I lay awake deep in the night thinking about the new life growing inside me, wondering how I was going to manage two children when I sometimes felt I could barely
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by Heather I thought that since this is my first “official” post on this blog that I should give a bit of history about myself. I’m sure that eventually you will learn more than you ever wanted to! My mother has four children. For the first three births she had medications and according to her
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By Heather One of my assignments for this book has been to research the birthing history of early LDS women. It has been an incredible experience and I’ve learned so much about birth and about midwifery. One of the things that I was most impressed to discover was that in the early days of the
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by Heather On the night before Asher was born my Dad, brother, and two sisters were visiting us. They were headed back the next morning, because my little sister was going to the Christmas Ball, and had been hoping the baby would be born while they were in town– no such luck. We’d spent all
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