So, I roll into the Supplier here in Tayhass this morning still about 20 hours short on sleep - but I have to pick up my badge for the facility.
It takes a new picture at the guard shack. There is one lady manning it - and I honestly do not remember how we got started on our conversation - I never do, it just kind of happens, but she and her husband tried to get pregnant and finally did after some time. She carried the baby to full term and went in to deliver. The baby boy had died 10 hours before - most likely from pre-eclampsia as I ferreted out as I asked questions. It was always kind of the sum of all fears for me. My wife endured all five pregnancies with that condition in one form or another of severity.
I actually had the head mid-wife at the UW Hospital shouting me down trying to get me to stand down and delivery Dallin (that died of SIDS anyway, 9 months later) by C-section. It was my wife's wish to delivery our third child naturally (the first two were C-section) so she could have more than just three children (they say it is very dangerous for the mother to have more than three scars on the uterine wall because apparently, it create the equivalent of a stress riser in the tissue and it can blow under the pressure of delivery, etc). But, in limited cases, some hospitals will take on what they call VBAC - Vaginal Birth After C-section mothers who want to have up to a third child naturally. So, I went to bat for her while Kathy Naughton (I called her Kathy, the Nazi). She sure was one tough mama - butch and probably dyke. She accused me of not caring about my wife and that I was going against common sense and putting her life in danger. I assured her that I was doing exactly what my wife wanted in going to bat for her to stay the VBAC course. My wife wanted more children (and so did I). This was out ticket. Kathy Naught(y)on was a zero-popper who probably did not want us breeding any more and bringing any more lesbian-opposing children into this world. Well, forget that. We have a directive from God - and God is greater than any satanic, hellish agenda you might be pushing folks. Move out of the way - or you will be swept out of the way. I always just take it to the Lord and let the magic happen.
I am not sure exactly what went down, but she lost her post as head nurse after that smack-down that I endured. Next appointment, she was no longer in that role and no one seemed to have a straight answer for me. The other nurses were still zero-poppers and wanted a tube-tie stat after each delivery, but they knew we were having none of it. It was classic. They would work one of us using scare tactics, then the other one in a separate room. I have never experienced it before or since - and knowing how awesome my two little girls are, it just makes me all the more pissed that they just might have scared us into not having either one and going against our better natures. Grrr......
Anyway, this gal at the guard shack finally had her first child - and it died before delivery. Instead of letting it defeat her, she wrote a book about it on Amazon, called Touch - and is losing weight so she can have another when the time is right. In fact, her goal is to have four. She has visions. Before she was married, she had a vision of five people. One was her future husband - and his facial features were defined and she recognized him. They did it by the book and waited until they were married. They are both black, and both mothers had them in their teens and out of wedlock in the Chicago area. They made a covenant with each other that they would do it by the book and be ready to be parents when they decide the time was right. They even bought their first home, fixed up a nursery in it, the people at this factory helped them out with a new crib, changing table and all the fixins. This woman is loved by all. I even heard how great she is back in Seattle before I came down.
So, this vision was of a man she married and had four individuals with him - whose facial features were NOT defined. She said, they were "blurry". But she knew they were her future children. After this child died, she was given another vision. Again, her husband and four blurry faces. She told me she was also made to know that she will have twins when she is pregnant again after four years. At that point, I was so excited I fist bumped her and gave her a huge hug. I told her, that she understands about the pre-mortal nature of spirit beings and that we existed as organized spirits before we came here to this earth. That we have form, indeed. But the details of the faces and even physical stature that we will take on in this life, are still a matter of agency - and that those details are yet to be defined until agency is exercised and a union occurs between those of our choosing, etc.
I am not sure about Jesus' situation. I think Mary was chosen from the beginning (just as Adam/Eve and Joseph Smith and so many pre-eminent ones were - and that God, being the physical father of Jesus' body, had His physical characteristics locked in at times when Mahonri, Abel and others were able to see Him face to face, prior to His birth in Bethlehem.
So there you have it - a gal who is not LDS, confirming our doctrine Beautiful. I listened to her story for over an hour - but we still have to go on a long lunch and she will hear my witness.
God lives. He has a perfect plan. We just have to listen to that still, small voice and follow it to an awesome conclusion.
God bless you and your wife for your perserverance.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be that you could have just one cesarian and not risk anymore children.
These indoctrinated technicians really have no interest other than to follow what they are told which tends to change from time to time making them look like idiots sometimes. All this is guided by the threat of law suits on one side and being censored or loosing your license to ignore the establishment. Everything in this society is driven by fear and coercion - we are then slaves.
My step grandmother was a doctor in the Uintah Basin in the 20's 30's and 40's
It seems I remember a story of a breech where she had to go in and turn the baby around. I wished she had left more stories behind. for other students in medical school, she was the one to go to for assistance in studying in the field of obstetrics.
Doctors then, I believe were more scientist, medical science was more of a guide and a lot of the time one became a scientist having to research more and experiment. She kept up with technical medical periodicals after she retired.
On the same lines, this reminds me of learning about how Brigham Young sent many young women out East to learn medical skills from colleges there, specifically obstetrical skills. The few male doctors the saints had were stretched thin, and probably many women were going without help in delivery. This extra knowledge and medical help surely raised the infant and maternal mortality rates as Zion grew. Education for women has always been important to our church! It lifts everyone up, even those who refuse to see it. Robin
DeleteI also had a repetitive two-part dream as a teenager where I saw my husband and children. He was taller than I, and his face was also blurry. I saw my oldest two children, who were definitely "assigned" to me and I to them: i.e. they were MINE alone. The daughter told me her name. I saw other children as a pillar of light which frequently changed height to indicate multiple individuals. They were more like an IF : they were connected to a certain choice, and if I did not make the correct choice, they would never be. This dream has been the most prophetic and guiding of my life. I have seen it fulfilled, every whit.
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