Birth is the full spectrum of human experience vacuum-packed into an eternally brief moment. I pushed that life out of me with sweat and tears and primal grunts, I roared and willed and laughed, I gushed forth water and trickled blood and my flesh stretched open along bone joints and orifices and muscle fibers and tissues. I felt with my very hands and my very groin (at the same time!) that hard ball oozing unyieldingly into the world. I picked up life wet and wriggling and gooey. I smelled it. I saw life learn gravity and breath. I saw life squint and gurgle and screech. I saw life grasp at breast and warmth, tugging and sucking deeply.
And as you can see, I’m smiling. This was no birth – it was rebirth!
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