Testimony of Healing December 28, 1998 Issue

Prayer eliminates need for Caesarean section

Moira Davidson

One morning, late in my pregnancy when I was expecting my second child, I began to hemorrhage. I immediately telephoned the Christian Science practitioner I had been in contact with throughout the pregnancy and asked for treatment through prayer. Then, because I believed the law required it, I called the doctor, who immediately sent me into hospital.

Once there I was informed that the placenta was in the wrong position and would block the normal delivery of the child. I was scheduled to undergo a Caesarean section in ten days. The practitioner visited me as soon as possible, and during the ten days that I was lying in the hospital bed awaiting surgery, she daily wrote me inspiring notes directing my thought to ideas that the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings present. She also visited me several times. I was deeply grateful for her exceptionally loving, cheerful treatment, which gave me so much support, encouragement, and spiritual confidence.

During this time, I became more confident than I ever had been before in God's power to adjust in my experience whatever needed to be adjusted. I was grateful for the time to pray and to study Christian Science literature, even though it was not always easy, lying in a crowded, noisy ward. My prayer reached its highlights in the night hours when the ward was quiet and dark and I could no longer read or study. It was during this time that I pondered what I was learning each day. Gradually I overcame the fear that I could ever be separated from God's loving presence or become a victim of a medical verdict.

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