You.

I have always known you. Your quiet presence, patiently waiting behind the stage door for your entrance in life.

Now it is here. Now it is your time and I feel you daily, hourly with the new changes to my body.

You're just 1 cm right now. So tiny yet already I feel a sense of responsibility and nurture that only a mother can feel. I feel protective. I want to do you right and that means for the first time in many years I am doing right by me. Just as I am giving you life, so too do you give it back to me.

But it is not just you and me. Each day as we grow, I grow closer to your father. This thing we have done, are doing together, it's greater than anything we've done before. It's humbling (and I know we both feel it ) that what is happening is older than time itself.

It wasn't all that hard to do and yet, it's nothing short of amazing.