"I felt I was receiving conflicting messages: the first being that my baby’s well-being was entirely dependent upon my eating and exercise; the second, that my body was mine, and that I should take measures to keep it that way, or at least, to conceal its pregnancy-inflicted flaws." Read more
A few posts and articles from the past few weeks that are worth passing along: God Made Boys to Play with Dolls by Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeinera, Caryn offers a wonderful defense of boys playing with dolls and links it to the God who loves us as a father. Another great piece by George Estreich on societal perceptions of Down syndrome: Selling the Story: Fetal Gene Testing, Down syndrome and the Today Show And a story on CNN about a surrogate... Read more
The first review of my ebook (plus a giveaway), What Every Woman Needs to Know About Prenatal Testing Read more
What's happening on my blog for the month of March: guest posts, World Down syndrome Day, interviews, and a ministry of absence. Read more
Lower termination rates still mean more Down syndrome abortions. A guest post by Mark Leach in response to my article in The Atlantic last week. Read more
"Catholic theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar has said “perfection consists in fullness of [life’s] journey;” and for this reason, none of us must ever think we have “arrived.” Each day with Sam reminds me I have a long way to go in becoming who God wants me to be." A guest post from Kristina Robb Dover Read more
So during one of those restless nights last week in which I wish I had been praying (see last week’s post, My Kids Keep Teaching Me How to Pray) but was actually reading stuff on my phone, I came across a number of articles you might like: On love and grace and pain from poet Christian Wiman: Mortify Our Wolves On why junk food is so addictive: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food On the impact of too-long prison... Read more
I wrote an article for the Atlantic about the history of prenatal testing and abortion and what that history means for us today. Read more
"I have so much in my head. I need to pray a lot." Read more
Mona Patel writes about how a prenatal diagnosis helped her diverse family (she is from India, her husband from the United States) prepare to welcome their youngest son, who has Down syndrome. Read more
Thin Places-Faith, Family and Disability
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