It's been said a thousand times over that children teach their parents far more than we could ever expect to teach them.
Well, my twins are only 6 weeks old and they have already taught me an invaluable lesson that I'd like to write about, hoping that I'll remember it daily.
It can still be beautiful.
That's the lesson. So simple, but so rich. So the lesson begins before they were even conceived. My husband and I wanted to add to our family but experienced difficulties. As time went by, we both sensed that medical help would be needed but like most happily married couples, we wanted our baby created through romance, not medical intervention. But alas, there we were undergoing invitro-fertilization. But guess what?! It worked and it was still beautiful.
Next came our birth desires. A natural birth was the only way I'd ever attempt to birth my babies. I wanted to experience it, all of it, pain and all. But alas, a breech baby and a cesarean later, my babies safely arrived. And it was still beautiful.
Now we're in the rigors of breastfeeding. Only breastmilk for my babies, and they must drink it straight from my breast, was my fight all throughout my pregnancy. Well, we've needed to supplement quite a bit, and I've now moved towards exclusively pumping since they were getting so little by breastfeeding. But they are healthy and strong and growing perfectly. And it's still beautiful.
Life usually does not go just how we'd like it to. But that's okay. It can still be beautiful.
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