Posts by mamabadger

My daughter had her first baby girl at home, attended by DSIL, me, and two midwives. Everything went very smoothly.    For her second baby, she planned for another home birth with the same midwifery practice. Everything...

Quote: Originally Posted by Alenushka    I do not get the "trust birth" thing. To me it  is magical thinking. One can do everything right and have all the positive thoughts one wants but the big parts...

Quote: Originally Posted by surism  I was lead to believe, well at least through my own translations of reading the bible, that it was soddemy not homosexuality which is the sin.  This is one problem...

For what it's worth, I think the reference to the Church as mother dates from St. Cyprian of Carthage (3rd century bishop) and his statement "who does not have the Church as his Mother, does not have God as his Father." I thought the...

My feeling is that music for a birth should be the music the mother normally enjoys and which has good associations for her, rather than some special, unfamiliar "birth music." There is music sold specifically to provide a calming...

44 weeks and 43 weeks, and no cord issues or other problems with either. 

Every time I say to myself, "that's the lamest excuse for a C-section I've ever heard," something new comes along to top it.   I've never heard of that, but if there's any basis for concern, I have to wonder if it would be...

Orthodox Christian. We've got a copy of about a dozen different translations, which we use, if nothing else, to compare translations sometimes. We even keep copies of a couple that are more paraphrase than translation, just to be...

When DH and I first became Orthodox, we were instructed by our priest to refrain from "heavy" oils, which means mainly olive oil, on non-oil fast days. Since then we have encountered people who avoid all oil, margarine, salad dressing,...

There may be far less difference between the two today than there once was. I think the thing is, a great deal of the whole concept of Christian charitable acts, which originated as part of Christian belief, have by now been absorbed...