a child was born just the other day...
...he came to the world in the usual way." Despite having given birth three times, to three beautiful children I still can't believe that a baby can stay scrunched up inside a woman's body, tucked into the expanding balloon like uterus, crowding out the bladder, stomach and other important parts, and all the while, changing from the united egg and sperm into a person who will grow up and have an impact on many people and the world -hopefully for the better. My mind starts thinking about our children and their uniqueness and the complexity of everyone in the world - I think weird thoughts like, "If a different sperm had met up with my monthly egg , outswimming the other little guys, we would have gotten totally different children who would have gone down different paths and the world would be different and I would be different...." I also wonder how in the world a baby can emerge from the mysterious vagina - a complicated part of the woman's body that most...