I still remember vividly "my" first baby, back as a student, I was terrified, grossed out, and delighted all at once in the process, bless the midwife I was working with, she had to keep reminding me- "Your face! Control your face!"- you, see I have quite the expressive face, and whatever is going on in my mind- shows on my face! But, when that incredible mother delivered a healthy, screaming baby boy- I was overcome with awe and wonder and the miracle that is life, God is one great scientist- to be able to create a being who can then create a life! I take my hat of to Him!
I love watching mothers and fathers as they carefully examine every little feature of their newborn, the perfect little hands, with their tiny fingernails, the chubby little bodies, and round perfectly innocent faces. For every parent their child is the most perfect and beautiful of them all... (it takes an uncle or brother to point out that the baby's face is sometimes rather scrunched up looking!)
One of my sisters let me come to the birth of her child Celeste- which was wonderful miracle to witness, and helped me understand on a more powerfully emotional level the bond between a mother and baby which is formed almost instantaneously from birth!
Mothers are incredible beings to me. I am in awe of women- they go through what has been described as one of the most painful events that can happen to a person, and yet a woman chooses to go through this, as they know that they are going to have a miracle at the end, who they can love, cherish and raise as their own.
Mothers- I salute you, I am in awe of you. Thank you for being the wonders that you are!
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