Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth has been a long-time “mentor from afar” to me via her books and the Revive Our Hearts daily podcast. When I learned that she and her husband were writing a book together, I knew it would be a great book and was eager to read it. This book arrived in my mailbox (thank you, Revive Our Hearts…
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Maybe it was the savory pots of chili my mom made on crisp fall nights, or the joy of kicking through piles of leaves on the walk home from school. Maybe it was my sister and I tumbling inside at dusk with cold hands and noses…
As a birth doula, my job is to provide physical and emotional labor support. The nature of birth being what it is – completely unpredictable – means that as a client is nearing her due date and impending labor, I go into “on call” mode. When I am on call, the knowledge that I could be heading to a birth in the next couple hours is never far from my mind.
Today I’m sharing an Amy Carmichael poem that has many times comforted my heart when I’m feeling harried, rushed, and frazzled. When the necessary chores of everyday life feel endless or I despair of “doing it all”, these words bring me back to Him…
This is an essay I wrote as part of my birth doula certification through DONA International. Historically, it has been the norm for birthing women to have the gift of another woman’s presence all throughout her labor, birth, and immediate postpartum. This labor companion may have been a mother, aunt, grandmother, sister, friend, or combination of these. A pregnant woman…
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