catapult magazine

Items tagged baby

• Growing family

  An Advent reflection on adopting and being adopted.

• Death and birth

  Reflections on becoming a parent.

• The photo project

  A sampling of images and mini-essays from a unique interactive project.

• Surviving your baby’s first year

  A book list by the mother of a toddler explores experiences from birthing to sleeping.

• Considering contraception

  A response to catapult’s “Family Planning” issue.

• In the flesh

  On the Divine's experience of love from within a body.

• Hi, there

  A reflection on God entering the world as a newborn baby.

• Upon a midnight clear

  How a firstborn daughter arrived just in time for Christmas.

• I know I just met you, but I love you

  Reflections on becoming a father.

• New life

  How hours of pain and anger broke through to love.

• Jesus in the NICU

  On learning to see Immanuel here and now.

• The longest shortest time

  Reflections on the dark days of early parenthood with Hillary Frank.

• Journey to grace

  Lessons from accepting the gift of a late pregnancy.

• Surprised by grief

  On embracing the mourning of parents who have lost a child to a miscarriage.

• Letter to my son

  A mother's reflection on the birth of her extraordinary, completely ordinary child.

• What’s the big deal about Bebe Gloton?

  A review of a controversial toy that asks us to wrestle with what's "natural."

• Grace rains down

  A song to carry through times of crisis.

• A chaotic simplicity

  Contemplating goals as the mother of a new baby.