Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Tom Thumb

The last 48 hours have been exhausting and emotional. Around midnight of Sunday night, Nadia began getting more regular contractions. At 2am we were at the hospital and by 3.20am she was in full labour. Tom arrived at 7.20am.

Who can adequately describe the experience of labour and birth? Certainly not a bloke. I am, simply, in awe. Of everything about it. I am grateful. I am pinch-myself-is-this-really-happening disbelieving. I am astonished. I am so in love with my wife. I am so in love with my baby son.

slow autumns settling
leaves skip like drunken dancers,
my bundle arriving

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