Once again you can experience the sensations unique to creating a new life.

The slow swelling of your tummy... that first kick and all the other stretches and kicks. Those baby hiccups inside, cupping your hand on that tiny bottom...

The first exciting pangs of labor and the not so exciting transitional and delivery pains...

The urge to push, reaching to touch that protuding small head so much still a part of you, the final pushes which bring your baby to you.

That peaceful feeling
once those persistant contactions are finally over...
holding that sweet, precious little baby
close to your heart and breast.

Discovering whether you have another son or daughter... counting those tiny fingers and toes... deciding whose nose or whose eyes or ears they have... offering this precious new human your life sustaining breast and the eager suckling they already know how to do and become such pros after a few days.

- Starlene D. Stewart
March 3, 1995