Before my family starts calling me after seeing the picture in this post, let me say that this is not a recent picture (do you think I'm that crazy). No, this is my pregnant belly from over a year ago when our second baby girl (at the time we did not know she was a she) was swimming around, growing and growing. Just a bit of nostalgia on this crisp Tuesday morning. Seeing this picture made me think about what a strange yet completely natural experience pregnancy is. For a brief moment in a woman's life she is actually physically inside herself - nurturing herself as her baby develops into a being who will become completely separate and independent of her. Perhaps I'm ruminating on the subject since Laela is now nine months old and I see her need me less and less each month. She's crawling, feeds herself, holds her own bottle... motherhood is full of intensities of love and beauty, but it's also very heartbreaking too.
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This is beautiful. I keep reading things this morning about pregnancy and motherhood and it has me aching with desire to create one of my own. I'm ready, but my husband is still getting there.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Meagan! I say the sooner the better :) Having children is definitely the best thing I've done with my life so far. It's fun, it's emotional, it's scary, it makes me loony tunes - yet I cannot think of any joy more fulfilling.
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