Enriching the Soil of Your Life
In a mother’s womb were two babies.
One asked the other, “Do you believe in life after delivery?”
The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
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Do you just barely survive your difficult pregnancies? With permission, I am so happy to bring to you this post which represents many years of carefully gleaned information. Diana writes over at her blog, formerly The Whining Puker.
It’s that time of year, folks! The time when I go through my supplement and diet plan and revise for the coming year. And… here it is! Version 2016, at your service.
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Few Supreme Court rulings have been as consequential as Roe vs. Wade, but until her death in 2017, not many know the true story of the pseudonym-cloaked plaintiff ‘Jane Roe’.
For some reason, I distinctly remember the morning I read about it in January of 1973; my sweetheart and I were to be married later that year. Oddly enough, this story and my life are forever intertwined, for 18 years later after battling infertility partly due to an abortion, we miraculously gave birth to our firstborn son on the 18th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade.
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Have you ever heard of Kangaroo Care? Not all prematurely born babies need to be hooked to machines to survive – in fact, they may just do better skin-to-skin on Momma’s chest with less possibilities of accidental harm to them or side-effects.
I was enthralled by the story of a 27-week premature baby coming back to life after being lovingly cuddled skin-on-skin.
Kate and David Ogg told how doctors gave up on saving their son after a three-hour labor in a Sydney hospital and doctors had pronounced him dead.
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Photo credit to Emily Rose Brookshire
That old rocking chair! I’ve almost forgotten those sleepless night of seemingly endless rocking, but they were some of the best of my life!
As a mother of three, I believe that the true Mother in me was born in that rocking chair deep in the middle of the night…
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