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The Flourishing Family

Faith, Family, Health and Home

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  • Remembering Steven
  • Healthy Birth Practices
    • Preparing for Birth
    • Waiting for Labor to Start
    • Pelvic Measurement: Will the Baby Fit?
    • Emotional Support and Guidance During Labor
    • Is the Intervention Necessary?
    • Pushing Positions
    • Mom & Baby: Skin to Skin
    • A New Perspective: Home Birth
  • Family Health
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    • What about Vaccines?
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  • About
  • My Novel: Aliisa’s letter
  • Remembering Steven
  • Healthy Birth Practices
    • Preparing for Birth
    • Waiting for Labor to Start
    • Pelvic Measurement: Will the Baby Fit?
    • Emotional Support and Guidance During Labor
    • Is the Intervention Necessary?
    • Pushing Positions
    • Mom & Baby: Skin to Skin
    • A New Perspective: Home Birth
  • Family Health
    • Essential Oils
    • Colds Flu and Garlic
    • Calendula for a Healing Salve
    • Measles and the MMR
    • What about Vaccines?
    • Easing Painful Periods
  • Affiliate Links
  • Privacy Policy
  • Against the Current
    Childbirth - Children - Health - Parenting - Vaccines

    Against the Current or on the High Wire

    July 15, 2022 - By Carol

    What does it take to go against the current trends in our culture? Curiosity? Critical thinking skills? Perseverance? Sometimes circumstances give an extra push. For most of my nursing career I have worked in the hospital. I worked in hospital labor/delivery units, caring for women during childbirth. I took time…

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  • Health - Vaccines

    A Rainy Afternoon at the Post Office

    October 15, 2021 - By Carol

    It is a complicated time in our country. I want to be gracious and patient, but . . . In the middle of the afternoon on a rainy Wednesday, I went to the post office. I expected few people would be there and my errand would be quick, but there…

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  • Abortion - Finland - Health - Vaccines

    Why I am Resisting, in Pursuit of Health

    October 5, 2021 - By Carol

    The leaves are changing color, flames of red and gold. The fall roses are still blooming in northern Michigan. God has inscribed color and beauty on earth. The design of the earth and its seasons, the design of all creatures, the design of the human body comes from God, our…

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  • Pandemic
    Abortion - Health - Vaccines

    The Pandemic and A Story in Genesis

    May 8, 2020 - By Carol

    During the current pandemic the existence of level 4 biosafety labs has come to light. It is in the news that the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease invested money in the Wuhan Lab. We wonder what happened at the lab in Wuhan. And we learn that level…

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  • Children - Health - Parenting - Vaccines

    Medical Freedom for Families

    February 17, 2020 - By Carol

    Over the past couple of years I have tracked legislation occurring across our country with regard to childhood vaccinations. Because one of my children developed fibromyalgia after a vaccine I am sensitive to this issue. In 1986 the federal government passed a bill, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, that…

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  • Childbirth - Faith - Vaccines

    The Cost of Steadfast Convictions

    November 22, 2019 - By Carol

    When I read the prompt for Five Minute Friday today, I immediately thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer who wrote the book, The Cost of Discipleship. His life portrayed the cost of his convictions. I have read Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas and more recently My Dearest Dietrich by…

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  • VIE Event on Washington D.C. Mall
    Children - Health - Parenting - Vaccines

    At the Mall: The VIE Event

    November 18, 2019 - By Carol

    What happened in Washington D.C. last week? The constant drumbeat for impeachment continues and headlines the news. There are many topics, news relevant to parents and families to report. Congress has many issues that should be addressed for the people. On November 14th an event took place on the Washington…

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  • Bleeding hearts
    Abortion - Children - Parenting - Vaccines

    Is There Something We Can Learn from Nazi Germany?

    September 13, 2019 - By Carol

    At the back of the book there are 57 pages of notes. Erik Larson has written a meticulous history based on government documents, letters and diaries.  The book, In the Garden of the Beasts, provides a view of Nazi Germany through the eyes of the American ambassador. William Dodd was…

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  • Health - Vaccines

    What Can We Learn from the Tragic Story of Dr. Semmelweis?

    July 17, 2019 - By Carol

    Numerous parents have reported that a child of theirs experienced digestive disturbance and a regression in behavior following the MMR vaccine. This observation made by parents has been discarded because “correlation is not causation”. Yet consistent observations of loving parents should give the medical field pause and a reason to…

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  • Abortion - Vaccines

    Is a Clinical Trial of 42 Days Enough to Establish Vaccine Safety?

    July 2, 2019 - By Carol

    In the 1960s and early 1970s many babies were sacrificed to produce the rubella vaccine. Hysterotomy was performed on women who chose to have an elective abortion in order to provide fetal tissue. The research took place over a period of years. This rubella vaccine (included in the MMR) was…

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As I write, I give thanks for God’s design of the family and the gift of His word, the Bible.

It gives me joy to be a woman, a wife, a mother and grandmother. For many years I was a childbirth nurse, assisting mothers and their babies.

 

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