Posts Tagged ‘Author: Glenni Lorick’

The weather suddenly feels like fall as I write this. I’m sipping a cup of rich hot cocoa and thinking about Christmas. This year our family, like many of yours perhaps, isn’t going to spend a lot of money on gifts. Instead, we are going to give a special gift to an organization that is [...]

By Glenni Lorick
Brant Hansen is the morning host for WAY-FM in the Tennessee Valley. Part of Brant’s appeal is his straight-forward honesty about relevant issues. He doesn’t want to simply sit in his easy chair and be a complacent Christian. So in November, Brant got up out of that easy chair and headed to Kabul, [...]

Every once in a while, you live through a period of time, then look back and wonder how in the world you made it. The months of August and September were like that for me. It all started when my husband’s cousin died of cancer. They were very close. Then my daughter got bitten by [...]

Valley Babies first edition came out four years ago this month. We began this publication for you, the hopeful, expectant or new parent. We’ve found that even parents of toddlers and preschoolers appreciate our articles. In our first issue we highlighted Huntsville Hospital, Crestwood Medical Center, Decatur General Hospital, Parkway Memorial Hospital, Athens Limestone [...]

I talked to a mother today whose children are 6 and 7. She would love to have more children at some point, but right now she has just opened a new business and has her hands full! She recognizes that this season of life just isn’t the right time for another baby.
It’s so easy when [...]

I love the changing seasons! Spring reminds me of new life and the hope that every new budding plant and emerging blade of grass brings. If you’re pregnant with your first child, you are probably filled with a combination of excitement, hope and maybe a little bit of apprehension. Every new pregnancy brings fresh excitement [...]

By Glenni Lorick, IBCLC, RLC
In the recently released Atlantic, writer Hannah Rosin, herself a breastfeeding mother, makes the case that the healthy benefits of breastfeeding are way overstated. In her article entitled “The Case Against Breastfeeding” she questions whether breastfeeding might be “this generation’s vacuum cleaner — an instrument of misery that mostly just keeps [...]

I can’t imagine what it would be like to start all over again with another baby at my age. I just turned 49, and with four wonderful children and an incredible husband, my life is full and complete. Kathy Selvedge, the owner of three boutiques on Pratt, felt the very same way two years ago. [...]

The young mother gazes contentedly at her newborn son as he takes his first meal at her breast. The long day of traveling has taken its toll on her. As she looks up, her eyes meet those of her loving husband. He has been such a source of strength for her during the last months. [...]

By Glenni Lorick
Two-and-a-half year old Chesney Forsyth, daughter of Kari and Jeremiah Forsyth of Athens was born on April 1, 2005 at 26 weeks of gestation. Kari had an incompetent cervix. She had lost a previous pregnancy at 17 weeks, so at 16 weeks her doctor put a stitch in her cervix and placed her [...]