We
love babies!
Last Saturday, our village arranged
a baby shower for the secretary’s daughter who is seven months pregnant. For
weeks, the conversation was all about baby goodies and knitting needles were madly
clicking, magically transforming balls of baby wool into beautiful jackets,
blankets, booties, bonnets, and beanies. It was a pleasant change to the usual
conversation about aches and pains. The spirit of the village, spurred by the
arrival of spring, was uplifted.
There were ooh’s and ah’s as each
gift was unwrapped and held up for inspection. This was followed by the twittering of conversation about how things were ‘back then’ when nappies were
washed, bibs were embroidered and christening gowns (carefully wrapped in blue
paper to preserve their whiteness) were passed down the generations.
Babies are like the lambs,
chickens, bunnies and baby birds of spring. They are the promise of new life
and renewed hope for the future. They arouse maternal instincts – both new and
dormant – and evoke the mother in us that wants to cuddle, protect, teach,
guide, feed and entertain the next generation. Babies are the miracle of a
couple’s DNA, connected, fused and sealed to create a unique human being with
his or her own personality and characteristics, genes and epigenetics, skills and
talents – each generation building onto these to improving the species.
Babies bring families together,
fuse a couple’s relationship, soften a man and make a woman stronger. Babies
make us smile and laugh and repeat the silliest things just because it makes them
laugh. When babies laugh, the world laughs with them.
If you’re lucky enough to be the
mommy carrying a baby, treasure this time because you’re special and will never
have this time again. Right now, you are cuddling your baby 24 hours in the
day. Soon you will meet face to face, and then, a whole new world will begin.
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