Growing Pains

From the November-December 2011 issue of Family Foundations:

Why postpartum is the hardest time to practice NFP – and how couples cope

by Marian Friedrichs

Looking back on her first partpartum experience six years ago, CCL member Katie Osborne, 30, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is able to joke about the times she and her husband, Chris, wanted to be intimate but felt called to abstain.

“I would pray to God at those times to please, please, please wake the baby because I was feeling so weak!” the stay-at-home mother of four recalled. “Usually God would step in and help us out.”