the curves of carrying life 🌙 these final days of just me and baby are so intimate, so special, so bittersweet. we can sense each other’s eagerness to meet in real life, and yet, it feels as though we’re longing to hang onto just the two of us for a bit longer.

birth is the first time we truly experience what all of motherhood becomes: the simultaneous heartache and happiness of hanging on, and letting go. protecting, and releasing. creating, and then trusting.

and that is why becoming a mother is the greatest lesson in trust, in selflessness, and in allowing those you love most the freedom to become all they are meant to be.