Labor of Life

Pregnancy and birth are life-changing experiences through which we enter a new era of life in our bodies, emotions, and relationships. Preparation for birth and parenthood often focuses on physical change, but there’s so much more going on! These experiences reflect and reveal something of God’s own life-giving character and work. Birth is central to God's story in the Bible, and this helps us understand the significance of these experiences in our lives.

Labor of Life offers a bigger picture of God's amazing design of our bodies and our whole selves for pregnancy and birth, exploring both the hard work and goodness of this transition, and how they are intimately connected. This book offers practical guidance for tricky decisions, many different women’s stories, and will help you rejoice at how God is working powerfully in you through this labor of life.

About the author

Jodie McIver is an Australian midwife and theology graduate who has brought together her love of the Bible, relationships and the human body. Jodie is married to Tim; they are in church ministry in the Blue Mountains just west of Sydney, and are the parents of three lively children and a dog called Smartie.

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