What does creation mean through a woman’s life? Not long ago I found myself sitting in the garden room of the Idaho Falls temple pondering what was next for me. I had just had my third miscarriage since my last child. I realized that the repeated miscarriages meant that a chapter of my life was […]
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I had a unique lullaby for each of my sons. My oldest, I made up a little song for him. My youngest was “You are my sunshine” My middle, Carson, I sang him a Hymn from the French Hymnbook called “Souviens Toi.” I served my mission in France and it is a beloved Hymn there.
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We had this great idea years ago to make a Gift of Giving Life Online Course. We started it and are hoping to finish it by the end of 2021 – each class will focus on a chapter topic. You can purchase it by clicking here. OR you can get it free when you subscribe
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The Gift of Giving Life has a friend! It can be lonely when you are the only LDS birth book on the block so it is nice when a new friend moves in right? We think so. It is wonderful that more voices are testifying to the sacred nature of the childbearing process. So when
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I am so glad your mother gave you the gift of life. I am so glad you exist. And every day that you choose to keep going is a gift to humanity and yourself.
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So we moved this summer. In the process of unpacking, I found a composition book with notes, freewriting, story ideas, and poetry from the Creative Writing class I took at BYU during the last semester of my senior year. I was newly pregnant with my first child at the time and thus processing a lot
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Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a student midwife? I asked my friend, Angela Geurts, to answers some questions about life as a midwife in training. – Robyn Tell us a little about how you were guided to become a midwife. Sometimes each of us may feel that we have a calling
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I was excited to get this blog post in our inbox about the importance of reading to our children. I will never forget the first Relief Society Enrichment meeting that I attended after my first baby was born. It was a presentation on reading to your children. My baby was only about a month old
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Yogi Bhajan taught that it was the job of a yoga teacher to “poke, provoke, confront, and elevate.” If that is the case, no one has been a greater teacher to me than my children. No spiritual practice has done more to purify my soul than motherhood.
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My experience with milk donation is that an ounce given is received back one hundred times over in the the joy of selfless service. For both donor and recipient, an exchange of freely given breast milk is about so much more than filling bellies. It is about finding healing and bringing peace to the hearts that long for love, and that is a treasure that cannot be measured in ounces.
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