As mothers, we all allow ourselves to daydream about the day we give birth. Our minds and hearts fill with images of the ideal, our souls overflow imagining “that moment” when you hear that first cry, and all is right with the world. Sometimes our first lesson as mothers and parents, is that life isn’t […]

This girl, and her precious heart. She knew my husband was out of town when she went into labor in the early hours of the morning. She told me she was 6cm and she didn’t want to bother me to come, that I would probably miss it. I knew she genuinely thought she was bothering […]