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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>Viewfinder</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/9760952"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">Chrysalis, allow yourself to feel and see all of the mothers through all of time who are with you, who birthed you and all of the other mothers to grow up and be mothers ourselves. They are WITH you in the form of the nurses and doctors you'll work with, they are WITH you in the roof over your head, they will be WITH you in the delivery room, ancestral faces gazing lovingly on you, seeing the evolution of humanity that we are all a part of, their mothering arms entwined in a protective, nurturing circle around you and any and all attendants to the birthing...<br><br>
You are surrounded... you are known, your anticipation is known, your joy is known, your anguish and lonliness and fears are known--your every feeling as you come closer to giving birth is known by every mother before you who has experienced that singular power of giving birth. All mothers give birth by ourselves... it is our one absolutely solitary adventure... while at the same time absolutely binding you to the evolution of all life. Wow. You are so <i>not</i> alone right now. Never have you been so completely WITH everyone and everything. You are AT ONE with <i>all of life</i>.<br><br>
Look in this direction, this kind of thinking about what you are experiencing, and give this to your daughter, as well, for she is learning from you right now what it is to embrace motherhood; give birth to a new life...<br><br>
and, what about listening to what your daughter says and thinks about the new baby coming? Maybe take a cue from the wonder and joy that she is probably feeling...<br><br>
You are magnificent in your pregnancy, like Mary, if you will (I'm not even religious, but, the story, you know, resonates.) You carry forth a new life into the world, maybe a life that will unfold perfectly because of who you are right now, and what your life is, right now. This baby chose you. Answer 'yes, I'm the right mom at the right time in the right situation for this baby.'<br><br>
You're in the circle.<br><br>
VF</div>
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<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/clap.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="clap"> wow, just wow, and thanks for writing this. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/heartbeat.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="heartbeat">