Download or read book The Long Barren Path to Motherhood written by Adelia Harding and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There must be billions of motherhood experts. I am not one of them. I do have a story to share that although not uncommon, is rarely publicly told in its entirety. There is so much hidden and wrong with how we as a society handle infertility, prenatal mental health, pregnancy and infant loss, the foster system, and adoption. A worldwide community of women have continuously battled infertility and loss for thousands of years, all grieving and trying to survive in our own ways. My path to motherhood, and the similar paths of other women who have traveled down this road like me, need a voice. Until these experiences are finally and fully shared, there will be no improvement. Despite the fact that motherhood has been experienced since the dawn of time, it still becomes a nightmare of constant failures for so many of us trying to attain it.
Download or read book A Mother of Thousands written by Heather DeJesus Yates and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Heather, you can't create life...' This was the message Heather DeJesus Yates, speaker and author of All The Wild Pearls, heard every month pregnancy tests came back negative. 'If you feel like everyone else can create life, except you - you know what it feels like to be the barren woman.' Since ancient times, to be barren was to be cursed. For couples struggling with infertility today, it can feel like nothing has changed. But there is hope for the barren womb...the impossible is possible now...all thanks to an empty tomb! In her characteristic way of drawing hope from God's tiniest creations, Heather shares her personal journey with infertility grief, even giving her husband control of some of the pages - and introduces you to a barren plant that changed everything. 'In God's economy a barren plant can take over a yard, and a barren woman can be a mother...even a mother of thousands!' The creative God of all things plant and person can bring revolution from the barren. Where we see an inability to bring life - whether it's through a broken soul or a broken womb - God sees potential for generations seated at our farmhouse tables in our forever family. Offering hope within a community of real womens' stories with infertility, A Mother of Thousands is the empathetic friend you want and the hopeful path out of broken dreams you need. This is the book I was looking for years ago, but couldn't find. So I wrote it. This is for the revolutionary - for you, mama - who just may not see it yet.
Download or read book Memoirs of Almost Barren Women written by Tanerra Willis and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Almost Barren Women: Our Journey to Motherhood shares a compilation of women/men of different ages who were courageous enough to share their challenges with infertility. It is a book that utilizes transparency to connect with families of similar experiences. Its overarching goal is to provide community and support for women, families, and support persons who have these experiences. It offers different barriers to motherhood, but encourages families to explore their options. Lastly, it informs women they are not alone and encourages them to release any shame and guilt. In this memoir the readers will be encouraged to support families on their journey.
Download or read book Beyond Motherhood written by Jeanne Safer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women from all over the country share their experiences and offer insights into what it is like not having children, and describe what factors helped shape their decision to remain childless.
Download or read book Barren But Not Broken written by Patanisha Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barren But Not Broken is a riveting autobiography and inspirational guide by Author, Attorney and Adoptive Mom Patanisha Davis. It outlines how she maneuvered through obstacles with infertility on her journey to motherhood. This book is a great read for people struggling with infertility, their family members who want to learn how to support them, or people considering adoption. Patanisha encourages her readers to keep the faith and to understand that delay does not equal denial. Allow yourself to see there is beauty in everything, including those things that at first glance appear to be stumbling blocks on our road to Forgiveness, Freedom, Redemption, Joy and Parenthood!
Download or read book Radical written by David Platt and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller What is Jesus worth to you? It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily... But who do you know who lives like that? Do you? In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a "successful" suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus. Finally, he urges you to join in The Radical Experiment -- a one-year journey in authentic discipleship that will transform how you live in a world that desperately needs the Good News Jesus came to bring.
Download or read book Barren Among the Fruitful written by Amanda Hope Haley and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of infertility has reached epidemic levels in our society. It is projected that 40 percent of women currently 25 and younger will have difficulty conceiving a child or reaching a live birth. Amanda Hope Haley had married David, the man of her dreams, and earned a master’s degree from Harvard. She and David purchased their first home and settled down to start a family. All her hopes and dreams were coming true according to plan—until the family didn’t happen. After spending seven years begging God for a child, Amanda discovered that God gives only one hope: Jesus. Amanda having a baby wasn’t to be her happy ending. Finding wholeness by hoping only in God was her happy ending! Using Amanda’s personal stories, and the stories of other women who have struggled to have children, Barren Among the Fruitful surrounds those women struggling with infertility or miscarriage with a sense of community while providing honest facts. It leads women from confusion to understanding. Each chapter is titled with a well-meaning, but sometimes thoughtless comment Amanda was offered during her seven-year struggle with infertility. Features include: Personal stories from women who have struggled with infertility or miscarriage An honest look at the problem of infertility Questions for individual thought or group discussion
Download or read book Motherhood written by Sheila Heti and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti’s intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home. Motherhood is a courageous, keenly felt, and starkly original novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.
Download or read book Barren in the Promised Land written by Elaine Tyler May and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.
Download or read book I m Taking My Eggs and Going Home written by Lisa Manterfield and published by Steel Rose Press. This book was released on 2010-11-20 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Manterfield was a sensible 32-year-old when she met The One—a man who sparked a passion for tango, an urge to break down closed doors, and a deep-rooted desire to reproduce. Five years later she was a baby addict, hiding her addiction, plotting a maternity ward heist, and threatening anything that got in her way, including her beloved husband and his pesky practicality. In this gritty, award-winning memoir, Manterfield traces her spiraling route from rational 21st-century woman to desperate mama-wannabe. She examines the siren song of motherhood, the insidious lure of the fertility industry, and the repercussions of being childless in a mom-centric society. But this isn’t just another infertility story with another miracle baby ending, nor is it a sad introspective of a childless woman; this is a story about love, desire, and choices—and ultimately about hope. It is the story of a woman who escapes her addiction, not with a baby, but with her sanity, her marriage, and her sense-of-self intact. 2012 Independent Publishers Book Awards winner.
Download or read book He Remembers the Barren written by Katie Schuermann and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackles the difficult subject of infertility using Jesus Christ's teachings and the Christian faith.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Barren Woman written by C. Celeste Marshall and published by Heavenly Light Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith and fasting are a combination often overlooked in the Christian world. Memoirs of a Barren Woman takes you on the ten-year faith and fasting journey of a woman waiting on God to fulfill a promise.Celeste¿s desire to be a mother burned in her heart, and despite all the odds, would not go away. Doctors told her she could never conceive a child, and the promise from God seemed impossible. Ten years of annual fasting, preceded a specific three-day fast, regarding a medical procedure and two days prior to surgery, Celeste made a last minute life-changing decision. Her life transformed in an instant, and God¿s promise was fulfilled.Whether you are praying for an unsaved loved one, a dream that seems impossible, a marriage that seems broken beyond repair, or something so personal that only you and God know, Memoirs of a Barren Woman is a story that will build faith as you wait for your own divine miracle from God.
Download or read book Tim Trumble s Little Mother With Illustrations written by Clara L. Matéaux and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barren Mother written by Joanne Williams and published by . This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For me, managing awesome teams was both rewarding and exciting. I learned early on that great managers take care of their team members; they do the right things for the right reasons. By helping team members focus on the same vision, they will begin to feel as if they're playing a championship game every day. People like to win and most dream of being on a winning team. The saying Life is a journey not a destination, is so true. Hopefully this book will provide you with some of those right things to do, or Silver Bullets you might say.
Download or read book The Barren Grounds written by David A. Robertson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson. Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything -- including them.
Download or read book Selfish Shallow and Self Absorbed written by Meghan Daum and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthology One of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society’s most vexing taboos. One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed “fertility crisis,” and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all—a successful career and the required 2.3 children—before their biological clocks stopped ticking. Now, however, the conversation has turned to whether it’s necessary to have it all (see Anne-Marie Slaughter) or, perhaps more controversial, whether children are really a requirement for a fulfilling life. In this exciting and controversial collection of essays, curated by writer Meghan Daum, thirteen acclaimed female writers explain why they have chosen to eschew motherhood. Contributors include Lionel Shriver, Sigrid Nunez, Kate Christensen, Elliott Holt, Geoff Dyer, and Tim Kreider, among others, who will give a unique perspective on the overwhelming cultural pressure of parenthood. This collection makes a smart and passionate case for why parenthood is not the only path to a happy, productive life, and takes our parent-centric, kid-fixated, baby-bump-patrolling culture to task in the process. In this book, that shadowy faction known as the childless-by-choice comes out into the light.
Download or read book The Mother s Day Garden written by Kimberly Cates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary discovery and gets a second chance to follow her dreams in this heartwarming novel from award-winning storyteller Kimberly Cates. Parenthood behind her, her only daughter off to college, Hannah O'Connell should be enjoying the peace of an empty home, and time with her husband, Sam. But a miraculous arrival, an abandoned baby girl, comes into their lives—a precious infant with the power to put the unspoken strains in their marriage into sharp focus. Clashing with Sam over caring for little Ellie, Hannah takes a chance on her lifelong wish for a home filled with the laughter and joys of children. Sam needs only to look at Hannah's garden—where, years ago, she hoped to plant a lilac bush for each of her children still to be—to know he cannot keep her love for Ellie from blooming. But will a shattering secret from Hannah's past push them to the breaking point? Hannah will risk everything on the hope that love is enough for them all.
