Gentleness

What a pregnant woman needs to hear sometimes:

"My dearest daughter,
We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. When troubled in body and health, we must not exact from our souls anything more than acts of submission and acceptance of our suffering, and holy unions of our will to the good pleasure of God.

. . .As for exterior actions, we must manage and do them as well as we can, and be satisfied with doing them, even if without heart, languidly and heavily. "

~St. Francis de Sales