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So sorry to have been MIA for so long. After 4 cases of pneumonia 1 child, 2 husband, 1 myself, 3 nasty flus 2 me, 1 child, 2 asthma attacks, and an extreme supra-chondryall fracture of the humerus requiring surgical repair oldest child 2 casts and 6 weeks of physical therapy, weve had more than our share of medical issues in the past 3 months.Now, as I lay recovering from the last vestiges of my own case of pneumonia, I am trying to catch up on the dozens of posts that were started, but never posted. I do sincerely apologize for the absence and hope the summer brings better weather - and better health - for us all.Copyright 2007-2008 GivingBirthNaturally.com All Rights Reserved

Now That I Am Forever With Child

By Audre Lorde

(reproduced with the permission of the author)

How the days went
while you were blooming within me
I remember each upon each---
the swelling changed planes of my body
and how you first fluttered, then jumped
and I thought it was my heart.

How the days wound down
and the turning of winter
I recall, with you growing heavy
against the wind. I thought
now her hands
are formed, and her hair
has started to curl
now her teeth are done
now she sneezes.
Then the seed opened
I bore you one morning just before spring
My head rang like a fiery piston
my legs were towers between which
A new world was passing
Since the...

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