babies

On Monday, January 14, 2013, I prayed for my newborn granddaughter in the chapel at Cardinal Glennon Hospital. I paused at the door to sign the guest register and write the name Eliana Noel in the prayer request space next…

Saving Hope

by Cassie Everts on October 22, 2012 · 6 comments

Meet Hope Jude.  Here she is about 15 weeks old perfectly formed [pictured right].  Almost looks like she could even be sucking her thumb already, isn’t she beautiful!  The gift of life truly is a miracle!
Awhile back my husband…

Hey, remember the talking Barbie that got recalled back in the 80′s  because one of her phrases was “Math is hard!”  This was thought to be poor role-modelling. Thanks to the recall, there are now millions of  twenty and  thirty-something…

Meet Cathleen: a twenty-year-old from New Brunswick, Canada, who served as a surrogate mother of twins for an infertile British couple. Twenty-seven weeks into the pregnancy, Cathleen was informed–via text message–that the couple was divorcing and would no longer need…

Exercises for Postpartum People

by Dwija Borobia August 14, 2012

Hey, y’all!  Welcome to the second installment of Super Useful Exercises Created by Dweej.  I mean, I know how much you loved my extremely awesome Exercises for Pregnant People, so I felt obligated, out of my limitless generosity of course,…

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Making Babies: A Very Different Look at Natural Family Planning

by H. W. Crocker III July 9, 2012

Natural family planning (NFP) needs a slogan, because as a “product”—if I might adopt business-speak—it’s not selling too well. According to some surveys, about 90 percent of professed Catholics reject the Church’s teaching on birth control. Even among priests, fewer…

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Baptism in the Wilderness

by Cari Donaldson May 22, 2012

The afternoon sun streams gently through the stained glass windows, leaving puddles of jewel-toned light here and there among the pews.  
The smell of incense lingers in the air from Mass, and all the members of the family pause and…

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Catholics Love A Good Birth Story

by Cari Donaldson May 14, 2012

You know who loves a good birth story?
Catholics do.
We’re kind of obsessed with them, if you think about it, or at least, obsessed with one in particular.  We retell it in pageant form, in song form, in picture…

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On Being Open To Life

by Cari Donaldson April 18, 2012

So in light of the recent Washington Post Article on NFP and some of the interesting dialog it’s generated, I took my friend Grace’s advice and am re-running this post I wrote on my personal blog almost a year ago.…

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