. On the night before Asher was born my Dad, brother, and two sisters were visiting us in SLC. They were headed back to Idaho the next morning, because my little sister was going to the Christmas Ball, and had been hoping the baby would be born while they were in town– no such luck.…
“Birth is not an emergency. It is an emergence.” – Unknown The night before Rose was born I was sitting at our computer finishing writing a blog post when I turned to Jon, who was sitting on the couch doing homework, and said, “Man, it feels like this little girl is trying to push her…
Thursday morning– exactly two weeks before my due date– I woke up with a dull, crampy ache in my abdomen, lower back, and legs. It didn’t feel like labor and so I assumed it was just another one of the many pregnancy aches and pains I’d been feeling the last few weeks. Yet as the…
“I am a girl.” Those were the words that flooded into my heart the moment I saw those two pink lines appear. The force with which they came impressed me and made me wonder. Later that day I was at a church conference. Abe and Rose were fussy so Jon and I took them out…
Dear Noelle, It has been three weeks since you were born and I am just now finishing the story of your birth. I’ve been stealing moments, in between naps, meals, and the general chaos of five children, to write down what I felt and remembered. Somehow what I have written seems wholly inadequate, and I’m…