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Pregnancy | Personal stories on birth and family life
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Personal stories on birth and family life. A project for families, by families. Living with an abortion. Pregnant Perceptions →. February 7, 2011. The adventure that transforms woman and man into parents – giving life, bearing life, protecting life. This is for me the greatest mystery: hundreds of children are born every day, but this will be our child, our unique one. Since I have no prior experience to tell me what any of this means, my excitement is so great it almost hurts. Living with an abortion.
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Pregnant Perceptions | Personal stories on birth and family life
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Personal stories on birth and family life. A project for families, by families. The Ever-changing Pregnant Body →. February 14, 2011. When I was pregnant I felt like a luscious tropical fruit walking around. One of the maternity dresses I sewed for myself was a pink. When I wore it I felt like a pink cloud floating in the sky. Santa Fé (New Mexico). They tell me you’ll be a bundle of joy but right now you’re a pain in the ass. I bask in the warm rays. Which make me sleepy and slow. Causing it to glow.
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The Ever-changing Pregnant Body | Personal stories on birth and family life
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Personal stories on birth and family life. A project for families, by families. The Ever-changing Pregnant Body. February 15, 2011. I watch my body balloon and everything familiar about it disappear. Movements are more planned. The ease and flow of my being is stifled. I wait anxiously for some instinctual maternal haze to fall gently down around me and relieve my frustration. Stripes for service to the species. Decorations for courageous infant-bearers. Baie D’Urfé, Québec. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Preface | Personal stories on birth and family life
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Personal stories on birth and family life. A project for families, by families. This book is the outpouring of many families sharing their realities – past and present, positive and negative. It is the result of a participatory project that involved hundreds of people over several years. Those who participated did so not as writers or analysts, but simply as family members: mothers and fathers, children and grandparents. Keep in mind this was pre-Internet era – everything was done by snail mail. It was a...
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Introduction | Personal stories on birth and family life
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Personal stories on birth and family life. A project for families, by families. Healthy societies celebrate the family – that unit whose survival is vital to their continued well-being. The family consists of individuals who may not always be seen, but whose voices must be heard. These voices are the indicators of society’s health. This book – these “sharings” – does not and do not make value judgements. They simply reflect, as widely and impartially as possible, the experienc...Themes in the book and on...
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Personal stories on birth and family life | A project for families, by families | Page 2
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Personal stories on birth and family life. A project for families, by families. Newer posts →. To Give Life…. January 25, 2011. If the experiences of pregnancy and childbirth are a turning point in a woman’s life, they are not a solution to our life, nor a goal. It is more of a calling that we are given to explore. It is a call to renounce, to let go, to go outside of ourselves toward our own choices, our freedom. This is what we are offered. Welcoming new life within. January 23, 2011. January 21, 2011.
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partage intime | Personal stories on birth and family life
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Personal stories on birth and family life. A project for families, by families. Author Archives: partage intime. The Ever-changing Pregnant Body. February 15, 2011. I watch my body balloon and everything familiar about it disappear. Movements are more planned. The ease and flow of my being is stifled. I wait anxiously for some instinctual maternal haze to fall gently down around me and relieve … Continue reading →. February 14, 2011. February 7, 2011. Living with an abortion. February 5, 2011. The chance...
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