Well, as much as I like to say that I am not ready for another child, there are some aspects of motherhood that I am starting to yearn for. It seems everyone around me is in the home stretch of their pregnancies. I think I can name at least 10 people in my life who have had or will have had a baby in the 3 months forward and back from today. Reading blogs and emails about pregnancies brings my little heart back to my favorite part of baby-carrying...DELIVERY! I know what you are thinking - How could that be the best part? And surprisingly for me the delivery wasn't the best just because Sarah was a week overdue. Delivery was the best because I loved knowing that this was exactly why I was put on this earth. That and it was awesome to know what the human body can go through!
I know the body secretes hormones that actually induces some sort of amnesia when it comes to the pain of childbirth. I believe that is God's way of making sure that women don't stop after only having one child. I think that my hormones must gotten too excited and went into overdrive. I don't remember hating the pain. I don't remember ever thinking, "I can't do this again." And now as all these babies are getting ready to enter the world in real time I can't help but feel a bit envious that these beautiful mom's are going to get to experience that amazing feeling very soon.
I am not planning on adding to the brood anytime in the soon future. Joel would whole-heartedly emphasize that if he were with me right now. In fact, I think he would say, "Why are you writing about that?! We're going to be jinxed!" I am really enjoying Sarah all to myself during the day and I am going to pull the selfish card and say I am not ready to give up the bit of free time I have. Soon enough I'll be able to go through all of that labor stuff again. In the meantime, I enjoy listening to others share their experiences in welcoming their wee-ones into the world.
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