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Musings Musings Musings: More on postpartum ptsd

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Sunday, January 30, 2011. More on postpartum ptsd. Lately I've gotten some new comments on a post. I don't mean to imply that the natural birth-movement or midwifery are at all bad things. In fact, I think they are very good and necessary correctives to the over-medicalization of birth in the U.S, and I will probably seek a natural birth and midwife-attended birth again if I have another child (though it will be in a hospital this time, and with a very different midwife! I think that with anything medica...

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The Spohrs Are Multiplying… We’re Gonna Make A Change

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The Spohrs Are Multiplying…. Hair Dos & How Tos. We’re Gonna Make A Change. August 28th, 2009. If you can’t see the video above, click here. Earlier this week I read an article in the New York Times. Especially Mike in the first few hours before I checked out of my hospital), and I saw other babies have just AWFUL things. I saw other babies die. We were told many, many times that Madeline would die. This isn’t even taking into account what we saw and experienced in the PICU on April 7th. This is a rare c...

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Musings Musings Musings: Waking Up

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Friday, May 15, 2015. The Sleeper and the Spindle. I've been nervous to say anything for fear that it will slip away, but I have been happy, calm, even.feeling soft and smooth.for three days now. I'm pretty sure the new meds have kicked in (in less than a week! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). So not) earth mama. Musings, Musings, Musings. A blog about ptsd, prenatal and postpartum depression, healing, motherhood, spirituality, theology, pop culture, and anything else I'm in the mood to muse about!

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Musings Musings Musings: A meditation on the darkness

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012. A meditation on the darkness. Too often we seek to sleep through the night. When we are confronted with the dark, we seek to drown it out with light, not gentle light that will dance and embrace and create a lovely interplay with the dark around it allowing us to see in new ways, but garish electric lights that allow us to hide from the dark, from shadow. What would happen if we kept vigil? In the midst of dark if we stayed awake, if we watched? Labels: absence of God. Lately Ive...

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Musings Musings Musings: Twilight Series anti-feminist?

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Saturday, August 16, 2008. I just read a really interesting article on feminist reactions to the Twilight saga. Also did this with Rachael's pregnancy. It annoyed me in that show too. I also agree that Twilight isn't anti-feminist, and I had appreciated that Cinematical article when I encountered it earlier this week . . . in fact, I've been thinking about blogging about this myself! I did dislike that the ending was so ridiculously happy, but I've already blogged about that elsewhere . . . Postpartum Pr...

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Musings Musings Musings: March 2012

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012. A meditation on the darkness. Too often we seek to sleep through the night. When we are confronted with the dark, we seek to drown it out with light, not gentle light that will dance and embrace and create a lovely interplay with the dark around it allowing us to see in new ways, but garish electric lights that allow us to hide from the dark, from shadow. What would happen if we kept vigil? In the midst of dark if we stayed awake, if we watched? Labels: absence of God. Lately Ive...

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Musings Musings Musings: Back from The Silence

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Thursday, May 7, 2015. Back from The Silence. It's been three years since I've posted here.I guess three years since I've needed this space, a space I come to when my inner world, which can hold so much, go so deep, expand to hold even incredible trauma and despair, is finally too full. I am finally too full again. A month away from ordination. Five months since losing an unexpected, but suddenly deeply welcome, pregnancy to miscarriage. Four months since getting pregnant again, this time on purpose.

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Musings Musings Musings: Surrender

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Conception Column, by Paige Bradley. Do other people get to feel this way all the time? Or at least regularly? Instead of fighting I'm free-falling and believing that Something bigger than myself will catch and hold me, sustain me and Breathe me back into full being. May 14, 2015 at 12:26 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). So not) earth mama. Musings, Musings, Musings. View my complete profile. SparkleEyes' first blog post. Fbbvl hhk/ii;i;i;gh . m/ 8ik,tykl/z. For an explana...

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Musings Musings Musings: Sustain Us With Your Holy Breath

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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Sustain Us With Your Holy Breath. I have been doing morning prayer from the Book of Common Prayer every morning for the last few months. In some ways it holds me together a little right now as it feels like my psyche and inner solidity is coming apart at the seams. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). So not) earth mama. Musings, Musings, Musings. View my complete profile. Postpartum Progress has just linked to some important stories about postpartum ptsd and how often its misdiagno...

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Musings Musings Musings: Tinged with Loss

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Sunday, May 17, 2015. This is, more or less, what my baby looked like when his/her heart stopped beating at 8 weeks. I didn't keep the ultrasound picture. I didn't want an image of my child dead as the one tangible memento I had, and once it became quickly clear to me what I was seeing, I stopped looking at the screen. I don't really remember what the image looked like. If I were still pregnant, my baby would look something like this this week:. May 17, 2015 at 6:26 PM. May 18, 2015 at 6:07 AM. Postpartu...