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A new life

 Dear God / Goddess / Universal Spirit Thank you for my beautiful newborn. Thank you for the ability to bring children into this world. Thank you for the safe arrival of our little boy even if it didn’t go quite as planned. Thank you for the accident of his birth and mine that we were born so privileged to have access to fantastic health care. Thank you for my husband; for being the best support I could imagine. Thank you for compassion and professionalism of all the wonderful midwives, my goodness do those women love babies! Thank you for my littlest one’s beautiful long fingers, his pure clean skin - so fair it’s really is transparent, his almost invisible tiny eyelashes, the pudgy pads of his feet, the ever growing creases in his chubby thighs, his deep dark blue eyes, his ‘ warm ’ (hairdresser speak for ginger) hair. For every tiny little bit of him. Thank you for his little grunty noises, his squeaky noises, even his screeching noises. Thank you for the...