Stories about faith, fitness, and the healing of broken hearts, minds, and bodies 

I wrote this prayer nine months after my unexpected c-section. Residual pain from pregnancy and surgery made exercise more challenging...

I don't know why I was surprised to have had an eight-pound, six-ounce baby considering my husband, Charlie, is 6'5".   An eight-pound,...

My baby had been in an optimal position most of my pregnancy. I wasn’t worried because I’d prayed, “Baby, I command you head down, face...

Most people don’t know much about midwifery. I didn’t.   From what I’d seen, home birth could be weird. I didn’t want some New Age...

I was fully dilated. My midwives could see my baby. But after 24 hours of labor, Charlie and I were speeding to the hospital at 3:00 am....

Nothing has ever knocked me on my butt harder than pregnancy.   I love physical challenges, but there’s a big difference between doing...