An Orthodox Christian blog helping you navigate fertility, childbearing, and family life.
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Offering an alternative perspective on fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood.
There’s a lot out there about fertility and birth right now. Opinions of “hospital only or your baby will die” or “if you don’t give birth at home you’re crazy”.
Then you throw in the pagan/new age crowd trying to claim that birth is rooted in a fertility goddess who can help you find your nirvana with a pain-free birth.
And you’re a woman who’s searching for a more balanced perspective because you know there has to be more to this incredible season of life.
Well, you’re in the right place.
This space is for mamas or mamas-to-be, to learn and grow in their confidence as wives, mothers, and most importantly Christians.
You want to know that what you’re reading is tied to the Holy Orthodox Church, scripture, and oral tradition, while supported by evidence-based research and traditional wisdom. This information will empower you with knowledge that supports your fertility and motherhood journey.
So come along, journey with me as I build a resource guide for you, a Christian woman, in the modern world. Let’s create a community centered on Christ and empowered through our fertility and birth choices.
Hey there, I’m Khouria Cathryn!
I am the wife of an Orthodox Christian priest, mother to 4 beautiful children on earth (and 2 children in heaven). I am a registered nurse and birth junkie 🤗
After a decade of researching, practicing, and freely sharing (to anyone who will listen) about fertility, birth, and postpartum, I’m here now with the compilation of all that work.
My perspective is aligned in prayer and an Orthodox lifestyle. I have been an Orthodox Christian my whole life, with clergy abundantly spread throughout my family. I have a desire to connect you to resources that are supported by research and evidence, supported by the Church, and rooted in God’s physiological design.
Orthodox Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Miscarriage Support Gift Boxes
Three curated boxes to help you center your fertility and childbearing on Christ.
The Postpartum Box Includes:
Icon of St. Stylianos protector of children
A Mother’s Prayer by Kh. Meghan Gilbert
A handmaid herbal sitz bath
3 bags of organic stinging nettle tea
Handmaid grass-fed beef tallow cream
Heavenly hunks oatmeal bites
3 grass-fed beef sticks
QR code to my Guide to 40 days postpartum
The Pregnancy Box Includes:
Icon of the Mother of God Helper in Childbirth
Akathist to the Mother of God Helper in Childbirth
OR
Akathist to Matushka Olga
Two handmaid beeswax candles
2 6.5ft long scripture affirmation card garlands
Two laminated prayer cards to Jesus Christ and The Mother of God
An apricot wood birth comb OR olive wood Jerusalem Cross
Handmaid grass-fed beef tallow cream OR magnesium balm
The Miscarriage Box Includes:
Icon of Sts. Sophia, Faith, Hope, and Love
Akathist to Jesus, Light to Those in Darkness
Laminated card with the prayer for a miscarriage
2 Handmade beeswax candles
QR code to a miscarriage resource list
A ceramic tea mug
Stirring spoon
Three bags of organic stinging nettle tea
3 honey sticks
1 bar of chocolate
A paper journal
A pen
“Yea, O Lord, open the treasury of Your mercies, and Your compassion unto her, and let her give birth to a fruitful vine, to be a cause of joy to her all the days of her life: For blessed are You, and Your Only-begotten Son, and Your all-holy, good and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen."