Birth as Reunion

Birth is reunion. Birth is new and old. Birth is wonderful and fearful. Birth is past and present. Birth is you and your baby. Birth is your family and friends. Birth is ingenious and new and old and forever. Birth is the past and future united. At birth the reunion occurs between you and your life as you knew it and your life as it will be. At birth you re-know your baby. The baby you were so close to in utero, but now are close to in a totally different - but the same - way. Birth is a chance to re-connect with family and friends and share the joy, the pain, the experience, the change, the newness, the transformation. Birth is the time to say goodbye and hello. Goodbye to the tummy and swollen ankles, and bladder and tummy that won't hold much.Birth is the time to say hello to fruitful breasts and happy tots. Long and short nights. Blissful dreaming now converted to sleep . . . and sleeplessness.