Rebirth

'Hours after I gave birth, I lay there holding my sleeping baby in bed and I said to my mother, in awe, that I couldn't believe that women did this every day.

How utterly incredible the female body is, how strong we are within. She stared at me nodding with tears in her eyes.

I remember thinking about how I came into this world, scared, naked, gasping for air. The same way my baby did. But me, reborn as a mother. The moment he arrived the world seemed different. Remarkable. Lonely. Exceptional. And then I fell in love. And it frightened and calmed me all at once. The day he was born, I was born too.' ~ words by Jessica Urlichs