In doula training we talked a bit about the "everyday miracle" of babies being born: it's an everyday occurence, quite literaly, as thousands of babies are born worldwide every single day. For each mother, father and baby it is a miracle. A baby was created, and born - it really is a mindblowing thing to see or experience.
Yesterday this was brought home for me even more, during my Mommy & Baby Yoga class. I was watching a mom cuddling, cooing and laughing with her 9-week old daughter when it hit me: that teeny little girl body will one day be able to do what her mother recently did: give birth to a new person. To see a baby girl, it's hard to immediatly imagine such growth, development and evolution. Then I looked at another mom making eyes at her 3-month old son and thought, "Good God! She grew a some-day man in her body!"
We are all born of women, and created of women and men. This is not news, it is everyday information. And yet the fact that we can do this at all is really quite amazing.
yes yes yes. I think about this so often. It might be because I don't have children or maybe because i spend every day teaching children. You said it exactly right. It happens all over the world all day long and yet first there are two people and then there are three. It's crazy.
Posted by: becky | May 16, 2007 at 03:54 PM