I decided to work on increasing my body’s levels of magnesium during my last pregnancy after reading about all the benefits. I attribute (in part) many of the great things about this pregnancy and birth to my elevated magnesium levels. I think my babies are particularly adept at sucking the magnesium out of my body […]
Breech Birth-A Story of Acceptance & Dysplasia
Thanks to Taryn from Australia for sharing this lovely breech story, including a journey with hip dysplasia. Taryn had two breech babies in a row, and both had dysplasia. Breech babies (especially frank breech) are at higher risk for this complication. When my obstetrician told me at 37 weeks that she had ‘pencilled me in’ to […]
A Mothering God
It’s always been easier for me to imagine God as a partnership–a Mother and a Father in heaven. Or at least to imagine that the cultural perceptions and concepts we have of mother are more closely related to the nature of God than are the cultural perceptions and concepts we have of father.Not withstanding my […]
Transcend Suffering
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in…tranquility.” ― Kahlil Gibran I admit that I have had an easy life. Not all that much pain of either […]
Not The Cord’s Fault, Either.
Fairly regularly you’ll hear someone tell a birth story that includes the dramatic climax “And the cord was wrapped around her neck!” Or there’s the many cesareans that turned out to be necessary because “The cord was around his neck TWICE!” Cord wrapping is very common. Some babies are born with the cord wrapped all […]
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