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    • Pelvic Measurement: Will the Baby Fit?
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    • Is the Intervention Necessary?
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    • A New Perspective: Home Birth
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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
  • Book Reviews
    Book Reviews - Women

    Historical Fiction: The Queens

    May 2, 2025 - By Carol

    The Bible record of Esther, Queen of Persia, is full of drama. The Persian Empire was vast, extending from Egypt and Anatolia (Turkey) to the border of India. Esther ascended to royalty in an unusual way. A familial Bible quote is: And who knows whether you have not come to the…

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  • Sarai and Hagar
    Childbirth - Faith - Women

    Sarai and Hagar: Two Women in the Bible

    March 28, 2025 - By Carol

    The promises of God are faithful and true.

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  • Story
    Book Reviews - Women - Writing

    Book Reviews: Historical Fiction

    March 21, 2025 - By Carol

    A number of years ago my husband and I visited Concord Massachusetts. We walked around the village and toured Orchard House where Louisa May Alcott lived for a time. As I began reading the book, Finding Margaret Fuller, I was pleased to meet the group of writers that once lived in…

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  • Story
    Book Reviews - Midwifery - Women

    Winter Reading: Historical Fiction and More

    February 7, 2025 - By Carol

    In the past month I have read historical fiction that has taken me from Oklahoma to Avignon, France, and to England. Lisa Wingate’s novel, Shelterwood, finds its roots in Oklahoma history. The story has two timelines: 1909, shortly after Oklahoma became a state and 1990 when the bones of three…

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  • Human Life
    Abortion - Health - Women

    Sanctity of Human Life

    January 24, 2025 - By Carol

    As a nurse I have worked in labor/delivery units, neonatal intensive care and homebirth. Support for human life is deeply threaded through my experiences. When my son was gravely ill with leukemia, we fought for his life.  To purposely kill new life is shocking to me. I am saddened when…

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  • Christmas - Faith - Women

    The Wonder of Mary’s Experience

    December 6, 2024 - By Carol

    Each time I read the gospel of Luke, I see another detail in God's loving plan.

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  • Story
    Book Reviews - Faith - Family - Women - Writing

    Book Reviews: Katharine, the Wright Sister and A Treasury of the World’s Great Spiritual Letters

    November 22, 2024 - By Carol

    I have been enjoying this historical novel and Best Regards, a treasury of letters by well known people of faith.

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  • The Choice
    Abortion - Health - Women

    The Choice

    September 20, 2024 - By Carol

    Years ago, a young woman, a friend of my daughter, became pregnant out of wedlock. It was a tumultuous time in her life. With the support of friends she chose life, and we had a shower for her at our home. This woman’s daughter is now a teenager. Another unmarried…

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  • Life with God
    Book Reviews - Faith - Women

    Life with God: Book Review

    September 13, 2024 - By Carol

    Today’s prompt for Five Minute Friday is: PRESERVE.  As I looked through the Psalms I found this verse with a beautiful promise. As for you, O LORD, you will not restrainyour mercy from me;your steadfast love and your faithfulness willever preserve me! Psalm 40:11 The current news cycle can stir up…

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  • A New Granddaughter
    Childbirth - Faith - Family - Grandparents - Midwifery - Prayer - Women

    Beating the Statistics: Praise God!

    August 23, 2024 - By Carol

    If a woman’s first childbirth was via cesarean section, usually the next birth will be by cesarean section. The CDC provides the statistics for repeat cesarean section. It is 85%. My daughter-in-law’s first baby was born by cesarean section, but she hoped to deliver her second baby normally (vaginally). She…

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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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