Ok I am not usually one of those people who buys into the epidemic thing--flu shots ok but seriously there is something going on.... I can't even keep track of how many people I know who have given birth in the last 12 months not to mention those who are due in the near future! I can, on good authority say it is an outbreak....
There is something in the air, water, food... I have been drinking bottled water for a year now, eating only organic foods so as not to encourage anything with all those growth hormones and whatnot they are feeding the animals we are consuming... might think about going vegetarian... just in case...
I guess that is what happens as you get older and pass out of your twenties and slip seamlessly and effortlessly into your thirties... and yes as the calendar days fly by it is so nice to see those around me starting little families, lovely babies, toddlers, little people, older little people... it is scary that my niece is 11 I has palpitations when she had that birthday... honestly it was just the other day she came home from the hospital all wrinkled and sweet with the soft baby skin, little squidgy baby toes and puckered little sweet baby lips... sigh.... babies are sweet and nice and good.
tell me what you will about up all night, projectile fluids, leaking, dripping, crying, smells and the mountains of laundry that soon follow but I have to tell you I love them, I am so proud of whoever is privileged to bring one into this world, I am in awe how in a heart beat someone goes from wife, friend, sister, auntie.. to Mother. it is a transition that is almost visible in that moment when you see mother and baby meet for the first time. I cry every time. I know even in my maternity rotation strangers having babies... tears spilling down my cheeks as I was honored to be present at so many births.
So here's to those who have been active participants I salute you mothers out there it truly is a gift and the hardest job out there, I don't care what other people say :) well done!
~as for me? I would love to be a mother one day but for now I am honored to be Auntie to them all! There is always room on my knee for one more
