--- title: Articles – Church Life Journal | Jesuit spirituality description: Jesuit spirituality | --- Search [![churchlife](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Churchlife_Aug2016_Theme/Images/church-life-journal-white-horizontal-1.png)](http://churchlife.nd.edu/) - [Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays) - [Articles](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles) - [Blog](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post) - [Contributors](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contributors/) All posts filed under: ARTICLES [![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/birth-swd-cvr-front-review-194x300-2.png)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/05/23/review-the-gift-of-birth-by-susan-windley-daoust) ## [Review: "The Gift of Birth" by Susan Windley-Daoust](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/05/23/review-the-gift-of-birth-by-susan-windley-daoust) Published by [Tania Geist](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/author/tania-geist) “They were ‘doing birth’ to me rather than helping me ‘give birth,’” writes Susan Windley-Daoust of her first experience of childbirth, which she had hoped to do naturally but that instead resulted in “failure to progress” and a C-section. “That birth experience ended up being spiritually abusive by the ongoing treatment of me as an object (and not just an object; close to an object of ridicule). ... 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