Archive for the ‘Family Friendly?’ Category
Catholics on Motherhood and IVF
I had a post going about Catholic motherhood, but then I saw this opinion piece this morning about how the family who were victims of that horrible mistaken embryo transfer thinks that the Catholic Church should reverse its decision on IVF. I read that they were Catholic when I heard about the story the first [...]
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The Humility of Sub-fertility
One of the joyous, less talked about perks of finally graduating grad school as a married female is that people now feel free to comment on our family planning which, according to the majority of people apparently, should commence promptly upon graduation. Now. And they mention it to us, freely. In fact, I went to [...]
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Believe it or not, one of the first things I thought of when we didn’t get pregnant right away was Oh great, now no one we know is going to believe that NFP works. And I don’t think that was a crazy thought. I’ve been in the NFP world long enough to know that when [...]
Filed under: Catholic thought, Children, Family Friendly?, Marriage, NFP, Sub-fertility | 22 Comments
Having a family in grad school
On a school visit a few years ago when I was applying for graduate school, I remember one of the professors I was interviewing with mentioned that the best time to have kids is during graduate school, not squeezed in after tenure like most people try to do. I’ve heard stories of people having kids [...]
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We are not the same as atheists.
So, its NFP awareness week. Yay! Now, what does that mean for you? Well, (un)fortunately for you, I’ve had a major deadline, my laptop blue-screened on me, my in-laws were in town, and I’m now out of state at a conference, so I don’t really have time for a long post. But I did just [...]
Filed under: Family Friendly?, Marriage, NFP | 9 Comments
My brother-in-law sent my husband and I an interesting article published in the New York Times from this past weekend, entitled Educated Women Opting for Motherhood. Did anyone else happen to see it? The crux of the article is that in general, the percentages of women not having children are increasing across racial and ethnic [...]
Filed under: Children, Family Friendly?, Woman thangs | 8 Comments
Children as commodities
I read a post at Project M the other day about why couples desire to have children. I thought it was really beautifully written and brought up a lot of points that my own husband and I have come to as well. In summary, Kathleen describes how the desire to share her love with her [...]
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“Pseudo Marriage”
During my research for the forever “in process” marriage posts I just stumbled upon this already well written article that captures a lot of what I believe in/would like to share with others. As always, I would like to say that my own renditions are still coming (see? I was doing research on it jsut [...]
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Interesting opinion piece on the idea of equating births merely to carbon footprints. Definitely goes against all traditional Catholic/christian thought. It reminded me of this T-shirt I saw once that said: “I heart the pitter patter of little carbon footprints!” Some excerpts: “When Mr. Murtaugh runs the numbers, he finds some alarming results. Take an [...]
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Women in Academia
An article entitled Is Having More Than 2 Children an Unspoken Taboo? the other day in the Chronicle of Higher Education caught my eye and I eagerly clicked on it as I thought “FINALLY, someones talking about this!” In the academic world, it takes about 30 seconds to look around you and realize that, although [...]
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Welcome to my blog!
I'm a recently graduated, relocated, and married Catholic NFP teacher. I started this blog as an outlet for my non-research related thoughts as I avoided finishing my thesis. Those thoughts have now all but been consumed by our sub-fertility as we struggle understanding all the whys and hows. (Oh yeah, and I annoyingly don't use the word infertility). Now that the thesis is defended and turned in, I'll try to write about other things that interest me, but chances are it will still be related to fertility.
Adventuring in California
A Martha trying to be Mary- An IF heart among baby bumps May 21, 2012
- Faith makes things possible, not easy
- Would y'all do me a favor?! May 25, 2012
- Frustrated Musings of a seemingly calm girl
- You know you've reached a new low when... May 23, 2012
- Hebrews 11:1
- Doctor visit update May 23, 2012
- Infertile Catholic
- Letting Go April 24, 2012
- Just being
- my little adventures May 23, 2012
- Making God laugh
- The IF t-shirts are back May 13, 2012
- Patiently waiting….Kinda
- The defeat of LUFS! May 26, 2012
- Perfect power in weakness
- The Birth Story: Part 1: Preparing for Labor May 24, 2012
- Still Standing
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- This cross I embrace
- That "News" I Told You Was Coming... May 25, 2012
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