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Preparing for Your Postpartum Time I wonder what treasures we would garner if we treated our postpartum selves with the tenderness and reverence our Church traditions accord us. Rather than approaching these weeks as a time to hurry through, if we set them aside as a unique window during which to look within, then what would happen? What if we sought not to get back to our usual self, but to lean forward into a richer new reality? —Laura Jansson1
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efore we become mothers, it is hard to comprehend what this new reality might be. While the focus of our book is the spiritual, as well as the emotional and physical, life of a mother after having a child, there are some practical preparations we can
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Laura Jansson, Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage through Pregnancy (Chesterton, IN: Ancient Faith Publishing, 2019), p. 261.
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