Baby Story #2: Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Again
Many thanks to Jami Kamp for sharing her second birth story with us. Once again, we appreciate her honesty. To read her first birth story, click here. After the first pregnancy was so rough and...
View ArticleBirth Story: Leaving Dignity at the Door
Many thanks to Allison Grenert who shared her birth story (and sense of humor) with us. At 36 weeks, my doctor noted that my blood pressure had been steadily going up. She told me that she wouldn’t let...
View ArticleBirth Story: Messier, but Faster Than Expected
Thank you, Joanna Azar, for sharing the first of your four birth stories with us. If anyone else would like to submit a birth story, visit our submissions page to learn more. I would say I was pretty...
View ArticleBirth Story: I Didn’t Know…and That’s Okay
My birth story begins as I am a twenty-year-old newlywed being told that when my husband and I are ready to have children, we will need help. Fast forward about six months as I am calling a local...
View ArticleBirth Story: The Birth of a Mother by Sarah Rulli
Thirteen years have passed since I gave birth to my first daughter, but reflecting on the moment when she was safely delivered from the darkness of my womb into a new world of light, I recall the...
View ArticleBirth Story: That Wasn’t So Bad!
I am a worrier…always have been and probably always will be. So before I was even pregnant, the thought of giving birth was terrifying. I was certain there was no way something the size of a watermelon...
View ArticleBirth Story #3: Having Learned a Few Things
And the Lord answered, if you had faith (trust and confidence in God) even (so small) like a grain of a mustard see, you could say to this mulberry tree be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the...
View ArticleBirth #4: A New Way of Thinking
He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through ages to come immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) and His kindness and goodness of heart toward us...
View ArticleBirth #6: Pain I Hadn’t Recalled
“Who you are God and what you’ve done are all we’ll ever want. Through the night my soul longs for you. Deep from within me my spirit reaches out to you.” Isaiah 26: 8,9 (Message translation)...
View ArticleBirth Story: From Resentment to Elation
Many thanks to Jami Kamp for openly sharing her birth story with us. We appreciate her honesty. I thought I would breeze through pregnancy. We discovered we were pregnant on my husband Jeff’s birthday...
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