Babies

Who of you mommies out there will ever forget that first moment of holding your first baby in your arms for the first time, or your second or your third because I don't think it becomes any less special even if it is the second or third time you've held your newborn. I will never forget the first time they put Mackenzie in my arms, I was shaking so much I was scared I was going to drop her. But after so many months of waiting to hold her it was something not easily described or easily forgotten and although she is already almost 5, I still get the same pleasure from just holding her. And it was the same with Reagan three and a half years later. Unfortunately there are many ladies who are unable to experience the joy of holding their own babies in their arms for the first time and it is these ladies to whom my post goes out tonight. There are also so many women who have babies so easily but don"t appreciate them or neglect them and I often wonder at the unfairness of that. We are told that life isn"t fair and maybe its not, but I don't think there is any type of emotional pain that can compare to wanting a baby so badly and not having one, there are women who will go as far as stealing a baby and we are so quick to persocute these women but how many of us can actually say that we know what that woman is going through.

This is never an easy subject to approach and I wish all these childless women could be helped but it is not always so. I can tell you to go and kiss your sleeping baby or toddler or teenager because you are one of the lucky ones, but that won't help these women who cannot do that no matter how much they would like to. I am sure we all know one of these women and all I ask is that if you can help them, please do, but if you can't then please have the compassion to understand what these women are going through and share the joy of your own children with them, sometimes that is all they ask...