To the Man

To the man who will never come close to knowing what it is to give birth and will be required to be more than he knows how to be in moments....

When you feel at a loss and like there is nothing for you to do...that you can't help her...that she's so far away from you in the throws of a world you feel you can't get close to....'sometimes just hold her hand - she feels you there’.

Sometimes this is all she needs to get through what to her in a moment feels to be the impossible.....just to feel you there...you...with nothing to do, nowhere to be, words not needed...just you...there...strong and present....her man...as her body works soft but strong, vulnerable and secure ...and in other moments her mind screams to her of hopelessness and despair.

Know the power in your belief in her. She feels it come through your hands, through your breath, through the warmth of your skin. She feels it in your body movements as you adjust your position even tho her eyes are closed and she feels so far away.

With you holding her and you holding belief in her ...her hopeless can become hopeful...and she can find her inner knowing that she can, is and will do it...she can find the strength to birth to the little one you made together...the little one who is your child together and who will forever be a bond between you.

From a woman who has birthed.

(Reposted - and so much more appropriately with an amazing photo shared from this gorgeous family.)