'Baby friendly' an enviable designation recently awarded to Regional Medical Center

'Baby friendly' an enviable designation recently awarded to Regional Medical Center: The advantages of breastfeeding, and of communicating those advantages to young mothers, is a crucial part of what constitutes a 'baby friendly' hospital.

The Miracle of Life

Adoption: Heaven's Gift (Focus on the Family)

Looking back on the heartache of infertility, I see that through all the pain and disappointment, God hadn't forgotten us.

by Marlo Schalesky

As told by Vanessa, age 47

"Surprise! You're infertile!" my gynecologist said to me one day when I was in for my yearly exam. Well, she didn't actually say that, but she might as well have.

I was lying in that most uncomfortable position, while the doctor poked around with her cold instruments. I stared at the ceiling and gripped the thin tissue sheet that was supposed to cover me.

"So do you see anything odd down there?" I asked.

The doctor glanced up. "Everything looks fine," she said, then looked at me more closely. "Why? Have you been experiencing anything that I should know about?"

"No, not really," I answered. "It's just that Steve and I have been trying to get pregnant."

You can read the rest of this story here;

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/marriage/facing_crisis/infertility/adoption_heavens_gift.aspx

There is Purpose

"There is a purpose on every life that comes into this world."

What are we going to do with it? We as mother, even those who have lost a child or children they have carried have a purpose. Are you using your life to train those children you have? Are you ministering to other hurting parents who have lost a child?

With the child that we lost, there has been good to come out of that precious life. Some have renewed there relationship with the Lord, others have saw that God is a good God even in the bad times.

Who will you affect through your children? Do you realize you will affect Generations to come? That my fellow mom, is powerful!! We must be on guard at all times, and full of God's Word!

Take time today and everyday to be alone with God. It can be done, I promise, you are not too busy, you just have to make the effort!! It is important.

You can do it!

I Love You and Jesus does too!

Debbie

Poem about Miscarriage

HOLDING US BOTH

My little one, barely formed

I've never seen your face

In this life I'll never hold you close

And yet,

For just a little while my womb was your home

From the moment I knew your life was in me

I loved you

I touched my stomach and knew that you were there

A miracle was being woven

But something was not right

I lost you, my little one

Before I got to know you, hold you close or see your face

My dear little one

My heart cries out for you with such loss and deep sorrow

But I know the LORD will hold you for me

And one day I will see your face

My precious little child

And joy will replace the grief and loss

But until that day the LORD will hold us both.

HEATHER HAMILTON

Wenatchee, Washington, USA

This was posted on the Above Rubies Site: http://www.aboverubies.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1054:miscarriage-holding-us-both&catid=45&Itemid=67

If you want to be the best mother you can be by God's Standards, look to this site. Nancy has a wonderful teaching. Her whole ministry is for and about MOTHERS!

2010 the Best and the Worst.

2010 has brought some of the best and some of the worst moments in our lives. I am glad to say that through the worst, came a forever changed for the better me. But only by my savior Jesus Christ doings. If you are clueless to why I believe in a risen savior, My prayer is that you will search Him out, Read His Word and ask God to reveal himself to you. He is real, and he will give you the peace to fill that emptiness deep inside you that you try to hide. I love you all, May God bring us all a happier New Year! But no matter what comes our way, He will carry us through!

Finding quiet time with my Lord.

I do love my time in the word, finding time to be alone with God is hard, especially this time of year. Yet it is Christmas time when we should be focusing on him all the more, it is because Jesus we have the season.

Isaiah 40:30-31

30 Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall;

31 but those who hope in the LORD

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.