Adventures at Rasa Ranch #70

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11/04/02 "Given Birth"

 

Today I got a surprise phonecall from a woman that I hadn't spoken to

since our meeting at the sunset spot a couple of months ago.* She

had been pregnant also, and as it turned out, delivered her baby boy

two weeks after I did. She told me all about what a grueling,

marathon labor it had been and I responded with all of the compassion

of someone whose first birth experience had been an awful lot like

hers. With great interest she asked me how this second one went.

 

"It was..." I said quietly, "amazing." "Didn't it hurt??" she asked

with great urgency. "Ooooh yeah," I answered, "but the thing was, it

didn't matter!" As I described the labor and delivery to her the best

I could, she wept.

 

She admitted to me that, while she really wanted to have more

children, she was afraid to experience another birth. Her husband

tried to console her by saying that they could always wait until

after she'd forgotten about the pain from this first one, and to this

I chuckled, "I never forgot what it felt like." "Me neither!" she

exclaimed, and we both agreed it was possible that this remembering

may have helped me to be more prepared for the second round. I

confirmed that this time, for sure, I had had no misconceptions about

the power and intensity that seemed to be required in order to bring a

baby out into the air!

 

At this juncture she was reminded of something I had apparently told

her at the sunset that evening, not long before the arrival of our

babies. With joy, I had said, "I want to feel EVERYTHING," and she

remembered this in the midst of her labor. "So...did you feel

EVERYTHING?" she asked me eagerly. "Every nuance," I assured her.

"But see, it all happened Through me... not To me."

 

I think I got the goosebumps three times during that conversation.

 

 

*see Adventure #40

 

(picture included: Kheyala and Baby Zack, just hours after delivery)

 

 

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