Comments on: A Dozen Midwives

By: sister blah 2

sister blah 2 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:02:15 +0000

Thanks for your comment Jia. Hang in there is all I can say.

By: Jia

Jia — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:39:37 +0000

This is such a beautiful post. I’ve personally suffered from the “so when are you gonna have kids” questions all the time, as though I were purposely preventing a child from coming into our family.

Reading this helped.

By: Jami

Jami — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:48:26 +0000

Beautiful, Cynthia. Thank you for sharing with us.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:35:04 +0000

Cynthia,

You need to write a book about this, and call it, “More (mid)Wives Than One.” :)

In all seriousness, though, thanks for this post. It’s a great observation about how we are all connected, through family and church family, and how those connections matter.

By: sister blah 2

sister blah 2 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:07:38 +0000

#13–Noray, you’ve touched on perhaps part of the reason I think about the other people so often. And that is that I think I have a need for this to be about blessing more people than just me. During the not-getting-pregnant years, I started to really question the idea of God granting our requests for specific blessings. I was coming face to face with the reality that sometimes those requests are not granted. For every couple who prays for a child a gets one, there is another couple who does not. So there was a period of disorientation when I did get pregnant. I had a lot of “survivor’s guilt” type feelings about accepting this blessing, knowing that others, including some very dear friends who were walking on this journey with me, were still struggling. Maybe my way of making sense of it all was to look for ways to spread the wealth as much as I could.

By: Norbert

Norbert — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:29:52 +0000

Fantastic. It mirrors elements of our experience as well, my wife and I being strangers in a strange land at the time.

There are quite a few twin parents around here, no?

By: Marjorie Conder

Marjorie Conder — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:50:33 +0000

Amazing! It leaves me with new resolve to try and be that kind of support. Not necessarily for just pregancy and childbirth, but for any of our brothers and sisters at any of life’s especially significant passages.

By: Noray

Noray — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:21:50 +0000

Amazing how the blessing you received by having your children also blessed so many other lives by giving them a chance to be a part of it. Who would think something so personal could afect so many.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:03:51 +0000

When it works right, as it did in your story, there is nothing more sweet than the fellowship of loving saints. My family has also been on the receiving end of this kind of love and support, and I only hope that I can be of equal support to my friends and fellow saints as these folks have been to you.

Thank you for sharing.

By: Peter LLC

Peter LLC — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:32:50 +0000

Excellent.