This is an old email from before Reed was born. What helped with coping with births was mainly relaxing.  Relaxing really helps with pain.  With home births I always took Tylenol and ibuprofen both, taking a dose alternately every 2 hours.It also helped me to hold Ronny’s hand, have him read Scripture to me and sometimes I picked out ones I wanted him to read. Sometimes my midwife/her apprentices would pu

If you are just beginning potty training, see the list at the bottom of the email.  You can do it!! I have used “she” many times in this post because some of the info came from an old email I wrote to a friend who was potty training a girl.  Please switch out the pronouns as needed!  :O) I had trouble training many of my kids in this area, and I feel like it may have been because I was too worried a