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    The wonder of the last baby

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I hold my breath, waiting for another cry to pierce the midnight air. Ten, twenty seconds pass. Maybe I imagined it. Then a wail goes up like a fire engine and I push myself up and swing…

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  • abuse,  current events,  Homosexuality,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Pope Francis,  prayer,  Rome,  scandal,  Sex,  sin

    Disillusionment with the Church

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Remember believing in Santa? Shhhh, my kids still do. Maybe that’s a bad analogy. Maybe you never believed in Santa. What about this: maybe you believed your mom or your dad to be invincible. Kind of superhuman…

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  • About Me,  Catholic Spirituality,  Contraception,  current events,  Evangelization,  feast days,  JPII,  Living Humanae Vitae,  NFP

    Coffee clicks: Nashville, Instagram bullying, and Communism

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Heading into a kind of weird weekend for our crew: 2 days off followed by a day and a half of school and then fall break. I don’t remember having fall break as a kid, so I…

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  • About Me,  keto,  large family,  Living Humanae Vitae,  motherhood,  pregnancy,  self care

    Postpartum recovery: PT, hormones and keto

    By Jenny Uebbing

    “9 months on, 9 months off” they say. Well, some of them say, anyway. I’ve found with each subsequent bebe those goalposts creep back a month or two, so let’s just say as Zelie rounds the bases…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  IVF,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  NFP,  Parenting,  planned parenthood,  politics,  Pro Life,  Sex,  sin,  Theology of the Body,  vasectomies,  Women's Health

    Humanae Vitae at 50: how does a Catholic respond to sex in the modern world?

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Today marks exactly half a century since the publication of Humanae vitae, Bl. Paul VI’s prescient missive to the Church in response to the modern world’s views on sexuality and the human person. Reading it now through…

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  • About Me,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  motherhood,  NFP

    But what do the neighbors think? {Living humanae vitae part 8}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Lately I’ve been experimenting with a little mental exercise I like to call “what if there’s a nanny cam?” Now, being the queen of my domicile and the only avid Amazon clicker in the house, I can…

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  • Living Humanae Vitae

    The Weight of Motherhood {Living Humane Vitae part 7}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    For one of the last entries in the Living Humanae Vitae series, I wanted to share something from a contributor that has more of a reflective feel to it. We’ve heard from more than half a dozen…

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  • Bioethics,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  guest post,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  NFP,  Parenting,  pregnancy,  Sex

    Med school pregnancies and IUDs {living humanae vitae part 6}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    This installment of the Living Humanae Vitae series is near and dear to my own desperate-to-be-in-control heart, and it represents a beautiful surrender to an awareness of God’s faithfulness and the sometimes nonsensical economy of grace. I…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  guest post,  large family,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  motherhood,  NFP,  pregnancy,  Sex,  Suffering

    Alleged miracles, hyper fertility, and the Cross {Living Humanae Vitae Part 5}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    You may already be familiar with Bonnie Engstrom’s story from her blog, “A Knotted Life.” If you are, then you know that her son, James Fulton, was stillborn. His allegedly miraculous return to life – through the…

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  • infertility,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  NFP,  Suffering

    Think you know a “perfect” family? Maybe you can’t see the whole picture {Living Humanae Vitae part 4}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Have you ever looked longingly at someone else’s cross and thought to yourself, “I’d trade places with them in a heartbeat,” while morosely focusing on your own troubles? Have you ever wondered, “I wonder what’s going on…

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