After reading a post on Bonnie’s blog I asked her to submit a complete version about how she and her husband named their last three children. I love the meaning that each name was given. Thank you Bonnie for sharing your heartfelt story. –Robyn How We Came to Name Them Joshua, Charles, and Talita by […]
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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.
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A little over a year ago Heavenly Father sent me a special friend, Cali. She blogs with her sisters at Bits of Everything. Cali is super talented and I can tell her sisters are too. Their blog has a lot of great ideas for just about everything. Cali agreed to review our book. I love
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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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Can a woman FAIL at childbirth? My answer is NO. What if they carefully prepared to have their birth be one way but circumstances dictated another direction? Was that a FAIL? Again, I say NO. I feel that childbirth is more about the offering and sacrifice made on the part of the mother. What path did
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I have not met Donna in person but I can tell that she is someone I would invite to my baby shower. I love this Southern gal who doesn’t shy away from telling it like it is. -Robyn As the author of Banned From Baby Showers, I’ve often commented on how difficult it is for
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My VBAC Story by Keshia Our little boy, Corbin, was born February 13, 2012 via VBAC. Yes! Here’s some thoughts about my birthing journey from the beginning. My first son was born via cesarean section in September of 2010. I knew enough going into my first pregnancy and birth that I wanted a natural, un-medicated
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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
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So it really came down to what are we AFRAID of? I had another massage therapy/therapy appointment and that is what I figured out. We are both afraid and that is what is holding us back from letting go of control. I am afraid of loving and losing the one I love. Choosing to be
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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
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