My children amazed me this morning. (ds is 6, dd is going on 5 and other dd is almost 3.) After breakfast and circle time they decided it was time to have another baby in the family. I have told them that I am not expecting to have any more babies (not without suing the urologist who took care of dh 
) so they decided to take matters into their own hands.
All three were culred up in front of the woodstove with my middle child resting on several soft pillows. She had tucked her favourite toy unicorn inside her dress and her sister and brother were gently rubbing her back and singing to her. I joined their little circle and was amazed at how my daughter gazed into each of our eyes with such depth and love that her lip seemed to be trembling. She said she was so happy to be having a baby. Her brother kept asking, "Is is time yet?" and she would tell him, no, one more night and just love me some more. Once he asked her if Mama should get a doctor and she said, "I am not sick, silly, I am having a baby!"
After a long while she asked me to come close and hold out my hands and she dropped her soft little unicorn into my hands and beamed at me. I beamed right back at her and gave her her baby to nurse. She glowed - and said we all had to come when she had a baby for real. I said I would come if she wanted me and that her husband would be there, too. She looked annoyed and said, "We don't know him yet, so why don't we just send him out to get pizza for the rest of us while the baby is being born?"
What a great story to save for her future partner!
I hope she never loses this desire for a tender, gentle, loving birth.
On the lighter side, her little sister gave birth to 4 teddy bears, 3 groovy girls, a duck, an owl and 2 cows in the time it took her sister to have one unicorn. She figured out quickly that new mothers are given yummy snacks after giving birth so she popped them out as fast as possible!
) so they decided to take matters into their own hands.All three were culred up in front of the woodstove with my middle child resting on several soft pillows. She had tucked her favourite toy unicorn inside her dress and her sister and brother were gently rubbing her back and singing to her. I joined their little circle and was amazed at how my daughter gazed into each of our eyes with such depth and love that her lip seemed to be trembling. She said she was so happy to be having a baby. Her brother kept asking, "Is is time yet?" and she would tell him, no, one more night and just love me some more. Once he asked her if Mama should get a doctor and she said, "I am not sick, silly, I am having a baby!"
After a long while she asked me to come close and hold out my hands and she dropped her soft little unicorn into my hands and beamed at me. I beamed right back at her and gave her her baby to nurse. She glowed - and said we all had to come when she had a baby for real. I said I would come if she wanted me and that her husband would be there, too. She looked annoyed and said, "We don't know him yet, so why don't we just send him out to get pizza for the rest of us while the baby is being born?"
What a great story to save for her future partner!
I hope she never loses this desire for a tender, gentle, loving birth.
On the lighter side, her little sister gave birth to 4 teddy bears, 3 groovy girls, a duck, an owl and 2 cows in the time it took her sister to have one unicorn. She figured out quickly that new mothers are given yummy snacks after giving birth so she popped them out as fast as possible!
Cute story! My ds has "birthed" a couple of times himself. He tells me when the baby is coming through his birth canal then we wrap his baby in a blanket to keep warm.
