Tag: pregnancy
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Reasons to be Open to Motherhood
A fellow writer recently asked somebody to write something positive about motherhood. She said “Some of us not-yet-moms are scared of motherhood because all we hear is that you’re miserable and debilitated for nine months, then have a day of the most excruciating pain ever, then you don’t sleep for 18 years and everybody’s throwing…
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You were not made for comfort
(Originally posted at Ignitum Today) Theres been a quote of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s that I’ve seen circulating in social media in recent weeks: “The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort; you were made for greatness.” Comfort (or comfortability, or being comfortable) is a sense of physical or psychological ease,…
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Pregnancy, childbirth and suffering
(Published in NZ Catholic, 25 March 2012) You’ll have to excuse me if the topic of this article is somewhat personal. The date of publication of this issue of NZ Catholic happens to also be the expected due date of our third child. Lent is a fitting time to be heavily pregnant. It happens that…
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Growing appreciation for life
You’ll have to forgive me for not blogging in some time. I write this now on my phone with a sleeping baby on me, which is less than ideal but you take the moments you get… I am now proud mother to three under 2 and a half – two beautiful, helpful, blossoming wee girls…
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Managing closely spaced babies: Part One – Pregnancy and Panic
Managing babies that are spaced close together doesn’t start when the second (or third, or whatever) is born. It begins at conception. It starts at the very moment that child is first thought of, or as realisation hits that indeed you are pregnant and another is on the way. For me, no matter how planned…
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Motherhood is easy?
While I was in Sydney this past week I came across an article by Jacinta Tynan. Jacinta caused controversy last year by writing about how she found motherhood easy. The article that I read was a follow up to this first article, after Jacinta had experienced motherhood with two children. The article has once again…
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All natural
It seems that natural is all the rage these days. All forms of media, from television programs to bestselling books tell us how to make your own natural everything – baby wipes, cleaning products, all forms of food, even clothing. “Organic” has become the new keyword for our culture. Perhaps trying to revive what past…
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Feast of St Gianna Beretta Molla
Happy feast of St Gianna Beretta Molla. We have named our daughters for two modern saints – both strong, intelligent women and mothers who led beautiful lives and are great role models for women today. Our youngest (now 4 months old) is named for St Gianna Beretta Molla. And on the feast day of each girls’…
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Where did all the words go?
I recently read a survey that new mothers had done about what they liked and disliked about motherhood. I don’t remember exactly what the results were, the likes were baby smiles and first moments and the dislikes were things like loss of sleep. Now all that is good, I could definately go for more sleep,…
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Abnegation
Abnegation. To be honest I had no idea what that word meant when I came across it the other day. And probably not surprisingly since it is an idea that isn’t common in our culture. Abnegation is self-denial. It seems that in popular culture the closest that abnegation creeps into our lives is when someone…