I am a born again Christian and I see Midwifery and serving birthing women as a calling and a ministry. It is my pleasure to serve in this calling and to attend women in their births from ALL walks of life, regardless of race, religion, creed, or differing lifestyles. I have served women from many varying religions and lifestlyes.

Scriptures

Psalm 100:3 Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His, we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.

Psalm 139:13-16 NIV Your hands shaped me and made me. Will You now turn and destroy me? Remember that You molded me like clay. Will You now turn me to dust again?
For you created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Isaiah 49:1 Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth He has made mention of my name.

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

Psalm 127:3 Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from Him.

Ezekiel 18:4 For every living soul belongs to Me, the father as well as the son — both alike belong to Me.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price.

Psalm 139 KJV ¹³   For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
¹⁴   I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
¹⁵   My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶   Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

John 14¹³   And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

2 Timothy 1⁷   For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Psalm 127:3-5 Behold children are a heritage from the LORD. The fruit of the womb is His reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; They shall not be ashamed, But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

John 16:21 A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Affirmations...

"People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too." Michel Odent, MD

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."Albert Einstein

"Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death." Betty Bender

"Courage allows the successful woman to fail and to learn powerful lessons from the failure so that in the end,she didn't fail at all." Maya Angelou

"The best way to avoid a cesarean is to stay out of the hospital." Brooke Sanders Purves

"There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby." Dr. Marsden Wagner

"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful.It's that women are strong." Laura Stavoe Harm

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess". David Hammarskjold

"Fear and faith cannot coexist and they both demand different conclusions and actions". Christy Faber

"Epidurals rip women off of an opportunity to experience themselves as competent adults." Margaret Egeland, CNM

"Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth." Virginia Di Orio

"Freedom to Choose where, when, and with whom to give birth. True freedom for adult women --- an idea whose time has come." Gloria Lemay

"You're braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem. And smarter than you think." Christopher Robin to Pooh

"Birth is as safe as life gets." Harriet Hartigan

"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are." - Louisa May Alcott

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglas

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on." - Carl Sandburg

"A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase." Author Unknown

"Babies are such a nice way to start people." Don Herrold

"There are three reasons for breast-feeding:  the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. " Irena Chalmers

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

-Marianne Williamson
1992

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