For those of you wide eyed with your jaw on the floor,
and swearing "Holy SHIT!" out loud in dismay.....
Let's just clear this up right now.
NO.....I'M NOT PREGNANT.
But this post is about the women who have miraculously transformed their bodies into a comfy place for a fetus to mature, and then birth a newborn into their first breaths of life.
Yesterday, while standing in line to sign up Jax for day camp,
three little kids waited behind us patiently to pay for their admittance into camp.
The cashier told the trio that they would need an adult to check them in, or they couldn't participate for the day.
Prior to this, I watched the three kids get out of the vehicle that had brought them to the center, and it looked like the driver had no intention of leaving her car.
She didn't look as if she was feeling so good.
I was concerned that she had already left the parking lot,
"AND THEN WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO WITH THESE ABANDONED KIDS????"
I was on my way out the door to try to catch the driver, when I see her walking waddling through the double doors.
She appologized for taking so long to make it into the building, but she was moving slowly this morning
BECAUSE SHE WAS IN LABOR!!!!
Is this setting in for you yet?????
A LADY WAS GOING ABOUT HER DAY......
DRIVING, DROPPING OFF KIDS, AND ON HER WAY TO THE GROCERY STORE.....
ALL WHILE SHE IS IN LABOR!!!!
She told the cashier that this baby is FOR SURE coming today, but not until she gets her errands done, if she has anything to do with it!!!
And I believed her!!!
She had a lot of conviction in between contractions.
My point in this entire story/post, is that I am still in so much AWE of what a pregnancy and birthing entails for a woman. The mental and physical change is astounding!
But more so, the strength and courage is unfathomable to me.
I tell you what!?!?!?
If I conceived, grew a baby, then gave birth to a big headed thing through my hoo-haw,
it would be something I would be bragging about daily!!!
MARK MY WORD!!!!
AND!!!!
I would expect you all to be bowing to me in amazement.
And by all....
I mean men.
I can not believe how understated the whole process is!
Men have noooooooo idea what uncomfortable and pain means.
And the fact that you birthing women DO NOT throw it in their face or kung fu their asses every time they whine about a little sniffle,
is beyond me.
I can NOT think of one thing that would trump the baby process!!
Man: Hey, I have pneumonia, gingivitis, herpes, ingrown toenail, boils, cataracts, warts, arthritis, constipation, hemorrhoids, heart murmur, and erectile dysfunction.
Woman: Hey, I had a baby
Man: 0 Woman: 1
Woman to Woman.....
If you ever decide to go Chuck Norris on a dude....
I would totally get your back and be your Bruce Lee :)
THAT is how much I think you women ROCK!!!
You should be memorialized in platinum and diamonds at the stoop of every door step for all to remember what bad-asses you are!!!
My utmost respect for you birthers!!!
I think you are amazing warriors.
(i am no man hater.....
just a woman that see's injustice!)
