Recently I gave a mini-retreat to middle schoolers. We had a blast, and they learned an incredibly important truth—the body matters! It took several minutes of me asking them question after question…until in sunk in and one boy finally responded correctly with “The body.” “How do you know you are…hungry, thirsty, sleepy, sick, tired, […]
Given up for you
“Usually we give the baby three strikes, then we move on to other ways to get her out.” The midwife sat on the edge of my hospital bed, choosing her words carefully. “If you want to keep laboring, you can make that choice. She recovered this time. But she’s not tolerating labor well and I […]
