Today is the Feast of the Annunciation – Lady Day – reminding us of the nine months that Jesus spent in the womb of his mother, Mary. It thus seems timely to draw attention to a small book, Nine Months with God and Your Baby: Spiritual Preparation for Birth, by Eline Landon (Sophia Institute Press). Pro-life groups focus rightly on protecting unborn babies, but it seems to me there is often a dearth of attention paid to the spiritual perspective of the long waiting period after a baby has been conceived. You will not, for instance, see this aspect discussed in the press concerning the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s expected baby.