Yet another good morning, my very dear Friends! I loved spending the last couple weeks watching you devour my Steven’s Husband of the Midwife posts! I just knew you’d enjoy them—they were so funny and fun, so sweet and so touching, and they allowed you to catch a glimpse of the unique person God has[…]
Good Morning, Friends! I spent most of last week polishing two articles for submission to a pair of books my friend, Cheri Swalwell, is preparing to publish. The focus of one book is marriage, the focus of the other is cancer. I thought I’d take this opportunity to share a little about Cheri and her[…]
Welcome to the second half of Steve’s Story. When Steve was through watching the film he describes here, he sat up straight in his seat and said through the lump in his throat and with tear-shined eyes, “What are the chances I’ll be able to attend a birth with you sometime?” I smiled as I[…]
My husband, Steve, has joked for a while now about writing an article for my blog about being “The Midwife’s Husband.” One day recently I said I thought he ought to do it! And he sat down with his computer and some four hours later he’d typed out nearly four thousand words! Four thousand words![…]
In line with the theme of my upcoming book, I’ve built this website and blog around my service as a midwife among the Amish. But today, with the life and dream of Martin Luther King, Jr on my heart, what I want to talk about with you today is a far cry from Amish Midwifery.[…]
I’ve shared birth photographs and films here before, but for those of you who’ve never been served by a homebirth midwife, I thought I’d share a short film that illustrates, in addition to a birth, what our prenatal and postpartum visits look like. May you enjoy this distillation of what we do. We’re celebrating this[…]
Okay, Friends, here we go! For the purpose of sending my up-and-coming book, A Midwife in Amish Country, OUT into our noisy world with some oomph and flair, I’m formally inviting you to join my launch team! If you’d like to be part of the team, reply in the comments below and I’ll hook you up with an application[…]
Hello again, Friends! So! A Midwife in Amish Country: Celebrating God’s Gift of Life is up and available for pre-order on Amazon and my publisher, Regnery Faith, has created a set of advance reader copies for media and marketing purposes, as well as a digital form of the book exclusively for the members of my launch team! Watch for news about how you can help me launch this[…]
But those ten weeks of autumn weren’t spent with my children and grandchildren alone. The time began toward the tail-end of a very dry and dusty summertime. Fairly the moment we crossed the line into Amish country on my first trip down, memories kicked up like the clouds of dust Hannah’s car sent billowing skyward behind[…]
“Don’t pick that up!” “Put that down!” “No, that really IS too heavy for you!” These were the exclamations that filled my ears in the last weeks of my pregnancy as we hurried and scurried to prepare to move as my due date loomed closer and closer! Jesse or Mom would say something akin to[…]