The Amish Midwife
““Mamm must be your mother too,” she said.
“Klara? If so, then why would she give me up? Why list Giselle as my mother in the family Bible?”
Ada turned toward me, tucking her feet up on the seat. “You were conceived before my parents were married, right?”
“That’s what the dates in the Bible spell out.”
“So, you know.” She grinned sheepishly. “They were embarrassed.”
Embarrassed, perhaps, but enough to get rid of a baby? It seemed to me that just wasn’t done in the Amish community. I thought of P...eggy keeping her oldest daughter and then marrying someone else. I thought of the handful of Marta’s patients I had seen in the last month who were several months further into their pregnancies than they were into their marriages. They weren’t proud of it, of course, but they didn’t seem all that ashamed of it either. Overall, I had received the impression that the Amish didn’t make a big deal out of it as long as the couple confessed and repented and, in most cases, went ahead and got married.MoreLess
“Klara? If so, then why would she give me up? Why list Giselle as my mother in the family Bible?”
Ada turned toward me, tucking her feet up on the seat. “You were conceived before my parents were married, right?”
“That’s what the dates in the Bible spell out.”
“So, you know.” She grinned sheepishly. “They were embarrassed.”
Embarrassed, perhaps, but enough to get rid of a baby? It seemed to me that just wasn’t done in the Amish community. I thought of P...eggy keeping her oldest daughter and then marrying someone else. I thought of the handful of Marta’s patients I had seen in the last month who were several months further into their pregnancies than they were into their marriages. They weren’t proud of it, of course, but they didn’t seem all that ashamed of it either. Overall, I had received the impression that the Amish didn’t make a big deal out of it as long as the couple confessed and repented and, in most cases, went ahead and got married.MoreLess
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