Time magazine has done a sobering report on Amnesty International’s newly released study on American women dying in childbirth. What we so often think of as a specter of bygone days is actually on the rise here in the U.S. In fact, according to the study, the maternal death rate here has doubled since 1987. [...]

I cried all the way through this incredible, beautiful story. I hardly have words for how moving this is. (Don’t worry, nobody dies.) It is a birth story, with some typical mother/baby pictures, so I don’t recommend it for men, but I just couldn’t resist sharing it with you, ladies. Hat tip to Owlhaven for [...]

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ –1 Peter 1:7

I had gotten cocky about birth. After giving birth to my first child: 8 pounds, 9 ounces [...]