Wow.
Last night, I watched a beautiful and strong woman push out a beautiful and strong little baby girl.
For this wonderful privilege, I gladly cleaned up blood and shit, did lots of laundry and mopped floors. I went over to the house today to volunteer for more cleaning and cooking, for somehow, inside, I feel like I would do anything to say thank you.
I just gotta say that women are such amazing and beautiful creatures. We are strong beyond belief. We find power in ourselves, to grow these babies, to birth these babies and to mother these babies, and we find that power in thin air, and that's how I know that magic exists in this world.
Anyway, welcome to the world Beatrice Helena! You are so loved and so appreciated!
"Fundamentally the markswoman aims at herself" DT Suzuki
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And Baby Beatrice and her mama too!!!
"I have no country. As a woman, I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." - Virginia Woolf
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." - Rose F. Kennedy
"I have no country. As a woman, I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." - Virginia Woolf
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." - Rose F. Kennedy
I'm so glad you were able to experience this!
Welcome to the world little Beatrice (that was my kick ass boot-leggin' Flapper, college educated, pants wearing great-grandmama's name!)!!
LM
Oh so exciting. I need to do this before I die.
exactly what i was thinking.
amazing things I have ever been able to witness too. I think all women should be a birth attendant at least once. It is a mystical experience, at home or in a hospital!
Congrats to your friend and good job!
I had four friends at my first birth and pared that down to one friend and one doula at my second birth. Its so individual and different for each birth.
"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong."
- Laura Stavoe Harm
being surprised with the sex of my baby! Some people can't handle the wait, but I loved it! I think it would be wonderful for you to be a birth assistant with all you know and are learning!
Modesty or whatever. It is crazy! I was sort of like that with mine, but I think most modern women need to birth once to really understand how much your body says "screw this modesty crap" in the throes of labor. I was walking naked around the birth center with Ike, but I couldn't handle any of my family other than DH to be around me or even in the same room. I think next time even if they are banished for the labor, I need to make sure they get in for the birth because at that point you REALLY don't care.
That was the best part of birth, not giving a shit about social constraints. I wish I could be like that every day!
to have been able to be a part of this beautiful experience. it IS magical!
welcome, baby B!!
Who wouldn't want an acupuncturan herbalist at their big birth extraveganza? You´ll have mama2bs lining up after you graduate.
Tigerfish Mama
*Jealous.* And so happy for you to get to see such an amazing event!!!!!! So exciting!!!!!
"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong."
- Laura Stavoe Harm
sometimes i feel like i need to invite everyone i know to my next birth just so i have a chance of being invited to a birth. what an honor.
beautiful name!!
that must be so amazing to witness. what a lucky friend you have.
Love the name. Love that you got to watch motherhood come to life from an outsider's perspective. I hope someday I'll get this, too.
OMG that is awesome!
I get to be at my friend Spring's birth next month. I am SUPER excited!!!
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It's not very common nowadays, so they were pretty stoked about it. Plus, she just looks like a B.
"Fundamentally the markswoman aims at herself" DT Suzuki