While sitting in this surreal moment before our second son is born, I find myself reminiscing about Silas as a baby. I'm trying to reach back into those shadowy months of early babydom in which sleeplessness and hormones ruled and find myself ever greatful for pictures and google plus.
I just recently washed so many of these little clothes in anticipation of our newest peanut. My heart is literally melting looking at some of these tiny baby pictures!
The end of this pregnancy has been ruled by my thoughts of how to juggle two intense little loves and on a more immediate front, what position my boy is in for birth. We are having a home birth with a small team of midwives and we are extremely excited about this opportunity. Silas and this baby have been night and day in utero and so will their births.
As is the case with most biological systems, as much as a moment like birth impacts expression and behavior, it is a malleable, complex response that may be guided and re-routed. I am ever greatful for this flexibility in nature. Yes, there are pivotal moments in time that become core memories( to borrow from the movie inside out ;) ) and help define our very beings. Even those definitions can evolve over time. My point is, born in a hospital or born at home, these two boys will find a surrounding of love, affection and security that is consistent through out time.
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