by Diana Paul | Jul 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Alex and Marcy leave tomorrow for Ginowan, Okinawa to help kids in an orphanage paint a Love Mural. We don’t know what the exact wording will be. Will they use Japanese characters or calligraphy? Stay tuned. We do know that Alex has extensive experience...
by Diana Paul | Jun 19, 2024 | Love Blog
We have added a dropdown menu on the donor button so LOVE MURALS by Alex Cook can be added. Here’s his website: http://www.youarelovedmurals.com. Alex and Marci Girt are headed to Japan for an international mural exchange. They are preparing to help kids in...
by Diana Paul | Jun 17, 2024 | Love Blog
Many years ago, the public library I visited when I was pregnant with my first child showed a large number of books about natural birth in their ‘card catalog’. When I went to the stacks, however, there was only one small 78 page, spiral bound book with...
by Diana Paul | May 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Just a heads up. An epidural for pain relief during labor is often called a “cocktail of drugs”. Does cocktail sound desirable? Well, not usually revealed is that most epidurals contain fentanyl, an opioid 50-100 times stronger than morphine. Any drug,...
by Diana Paul | Nov 9, 2023 | Love Blog
For a laboring woman, the third stage of labor begins when the baby is born. Our baby, the film we’ve been cradling since the pandemic, began with two families. That was the first stage. The second stage began when we needed to switch to just one family. ...
