Wednesday

Mommy War-wounds

"When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no one will ever love you as much as a small child." Nicola Horlick

Life rarely follows your plan...especially when determining life altering decisions. Giving all you've got until your body is broken, bleeding, and tired only to be told a cesarean is the only way...when you know you'd push to oblivion for that miraculous baby....and now undergo major surgery with potential dangerous after effects: which of course you'll do. Because as a mother, you would die for your child, even if you never net them. But you do! You meet them, fall even more in love, and know that incision is your reminder that you will, and did, anything for your baby. There is still a taboo and judgment against women undergoing cesarean sections. Those operations are not simple...they carry potential for death for the mothers: blood clots, pneumonia, kidney infections, blood infections, not to mention potentially reopening the incision and extended pain and not being able to hold our own children after they are born. Hold your heads high ladies. We did it for them... we already proved we would put our lives on the line for them. Our scar is that tie to our children that says, "My love, only you matter and I will always put you first over me. I have once, and will again, walk through fire for you. Baby, I love you."

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