A priest friend of mine sent me an excerpt from this article 4 Advents ago, when I was pregnant with my daughter. (He was my professor; I had everything planned very well. The morning sickness would go away in early to mid November and I'd have that second tri surge of energy to finish writing papers. Unfortunately, in the second trimester I just got twice as tired and twice as sick. He was kind. Eventually he got his paper...)

Here's the link:
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=3923&s=2

I apologize for the long text...for some reason this isn't wanting to go behind a cut.

A Personal Advent Mystery