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Flat – Pre and Post Pregnancy Body
July 27th, 2010 by Jonalyn
My friend, Emily, cuts my hair at Off 7th Studio, Steamboat Springs. She and I were pregnant together and talked a lot about every stage and hope and fear. We worried together if pregnancy would turn us into women we wouldn’t recognize. Would we really fall head-over-heels in love with our babies? Would we recognize [...]
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Babywearing for Women . . . and Baby Finn
May 21st, 2010 by Jonalyn
Last weekend I spoke to Biola University on our recent book Coffee Shop Conversations and then in the evening on the “Myths of Gender.” For this latter talk, Dale and I shared the stage and preached about how men and women need one another.
This idea has been unpopular for hundreds (maybe even thousands) of years. [...]
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3-2-10 – Final Post – “Unfailing Love”
May 15th, 2010 by Jonalyn
Those days in the hospital, I think the unknowns were probably the worst. I distinctly recall, after a particularly difficult meeting with one of the doctors, that God would not allow Finn to live.
Why couldn’t my baby breathe? Why wasn’t he thriving?
I latched on to a verse in Psalm 13:5, “But I trust your unfailing [...]
Tags: motherhood, pregnancy
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3-2-10 – Part 9 – Complications
May 10th, 2010 by Jonalyn
I couldn’t believe I had a baby that big inside of me and now outside. Days later in the Nursery (Steamboat’s scaled down version of a N.I.C.U.) women would stare at me in disbelief.
SHE had THAT baby?! Finn outweighed all the babies in the Nursery by at least double their weight. One pair of twins [...]
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3-2-10 – Part 8 – GO GO GO GO GO!
April 20th, 2010 by Jonalyn
During the pushing Dr. Leslie told me that the babies head needed to rotate more to face the back. That required a little different angle to pull on my legs. I started to worry if he was facing the wrong way and that I wouldn’t be able to push him back.
But the different angle on [...]
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3-2-10 – Part 7 – Slip ‘n Slide
April 15th, 2010 by Jonalyn
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
The growing pressure on Finn put so much force on my back I was quickly reminded me of how I had injured my tailbone 5 years ago. Finn’s head on my tailbone was growing in intensity similar to the debilitating cracking sensation I had [...]
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3-2-10 – Part 6 – Pushing up a 14,000 ft Mountain
April 10th, 2010 by Jonalyn
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Near noon I began to think more often, This is getting a lot worse, I’m going to have to get an epidural. Then I’d think, NO! I don’t want an epidural.
I had this internal battle several times with myself. Each time the pain spiked, I would [...]
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