2nd Baby Boy of the day born at Home to a first time mama! 3-25-2024

We often tell our first time mothers when they ask about labor that it is their bridge they will cross. We will stand in support and as witness but ultimately it is their dance with their baby with their joy, their fear, their endurance, their mind, their body. 
In Each birth, moments are found in our team that find our cheeks glistening with tears. Today they were my cheeks as I watched the intense work this sweet mama was doing. Strong and beautiful and hit the point we all hit where control is beckoning to give way as we fight for it. Today I listened to the words you are crossing your bridge and becoming a mama bear and some how the magnitude of her beauty and force over took me. There is a primal place that we find in birth. We all become Alice in Wonderland as we slip through into another world and confront the parts of ourselves we meet on the other side of the looking glass.
And as if it were all a dream when we hold our newborn baby in our arms it somehow slips away as silently as it came.