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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This is a repost from our old blog. Felice wrote this post and love the epiphany she had and how she applied it to her love life and birth. How has this or might it effect who you choose to be at your birth??? Today I want to share a subtlety about love and
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A few years ago I went to a park day and sat down to enjoy hanging with my friends while our kids played at the park. A new mom showed up and sat by me, she had just moved into the area. We started talking. I noticed she was pregnant and asked if she needed
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Today’s birth story and thoughts on birth come from Elaine Cannon, the former General President of the Young Women for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I believe she she wrote this in the 80’s. When I had my first baby about thirty years ago, I was treated with great respect and infinite
Every year on New Years Day I open a letter that I wrote to myself the year before. Then I write myself another letter to be opened in one year. This has been a fun tradition. At no other time is it so clear how much has happened (or not happened) in a year when
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I’m thinking about dreams today. Before I became pregnant with my fourth baby, I had several dreams about a daughter who would be joining us in the future. In several of those dreams she was a newborn, but in one of those dreams she was a feisty older toddler, probably three-years-old. I’m thinking about that dream today because my baby girl has been ill for several days….
This is another post by Felice from the archives, originally posted in October of 2009. I love the message of this post, though it also makes me wonder what damage was done during my last pregnancy (in which I endured several months of antepartum depression). Even so, it is a wonderful reminder that our thoughts and feelings have an impact on the children within our wombs.
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Lani’s post, “Away in a Manger” got me thinking. I love these questions and well researched thoughts. Like Lani, I can see myself blurting out a comment about Mary being on her back. I just would not be able to help myself. Hebrew women commonly gave birth upright using bricks or stones as a birthing
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This post is not from the TGOGL archives but it is from Lani’s Birth Faith blog archives. The articles she links to are fantastic sources of information. I enjoyed pondering the events of the Savior’s birth as I read her thoughts and hope you will enjoy it too. -Robyn We had a fun little
