Where oh where did those nine months go?
Enjoy the time chirruped all my (wise) mum friends, It won't come again.
And as I find myself perched on the precipice of labour, I couldn't agree with them more.
Why is it that we pregnant-for-the-first-time-women spend nine months fretting and worrying and busying ourselves with a million and one inconsequentials only to find that as we stare into the pit face of the unknown (a.k.a giving birth at any point now), we are none the wiser and wide-eyed as ever. The armour of information and stuff that you've accumulated over the past nine months is precisely that. Armour. It may help you but it won't do the work for you.
I have no control of what is about to happen. A thought that is petrifying and thrilling at the same time.
Looking back, I can now say that I have enjoyed my pregnancy. Despite the discomfort of symptoms, the hormonal madness and sometimes difficult life changes, I have enjoyed observing what's been happening to me; both physically and emotionally.
I appreciate though that it is only the very beginning of something. Something enormous and fantastical. And by that I don't mean Dragon's head.
What I mean, is Dragon's heart.
I'm soon to meet my baby.
Oh boy.
Enjoy the time chirruped all my (wise) mum friends, It won't come again.
And as I find myself perched on the precipice of labour, I couldn't agree with them more.
Why is it that we pregnant-for-the-first-time-women spend nine months fretting and worrying and busying ourselves with a million and one inconsequentials only to find that as we stare into the pit face of the unknown (a.k.a giving birth at any point now), we are none the wiser and wide-eyed as ever. The armour of information and stuff that you've accumulated over the past nine months is precisely that. Armour. It may help you but it won't do the work for you.
I have no control of what is about to happen. A thought that is petrifying and thrilling at the same time.
Looking back, I can now say that I have enjoyed my pregnancy. Despite the discomfort of symptoms, the hormonal madness and sometimes difficult life changes, I have enjoyed observing what's been happening to me; both physically and emotionally.
I appreciate though that it is only the very beginning of something. Something enormous and fantastical. And by that I don't mean Dragon's head.
What I mean, is Dragon's heart.
I'm soon to meet my baby.
Oh boy.
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