Pregnancy is the ultimate act of letting go. Nothing is yours anymore. It takes you over - mind, spirit and body. And you believe when your baby arrives, you will go back to who you were before. It is only once the blur of the first few weeks has given way to a bit of clarity, and you have a moment to think, that you realize you aren't you anymore. And you look back and realize that you crossed a one-way bridge, and you are standing on a different shore. You are here now. You will never be there again. This new patch of earth is beautiful, but oh so different from where you came. Your sweet baby will never know who you were before she was here. To her, you will always be the woman on this shore.
It's bittersweet - this new journey of being someone's mama.
You are right about the bridge, dear one. Life is never the same. It's all new. And then, when you are settled into this new, another bridge comes into sight. On the other side of that next one, it's all new again!
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