Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/02/09/reenas-xploration-challenge-267/ In That Moment.
In that moment, the day both my children were born, I found out what true love actually meant. My first child, 9lb 1, and let’s just say it hurt a bit. Although all that went away when my daughter was handed to me. We already knew the name, it was always going to be Elizabeth, yet she is more of a Lizzie now. When my son was born (9lb 10) I made sure I had all the pain relief on offer. It was much easier, and again, when he was handed to me, all the pain just melted away.
I never worried about my children, looking after them I mean. They were sturdy, not fragile in the least. I could look after them, without over thinking my role as a mum. Both adults now, I find it hard that my daughter will be thirty-two this year.
The memory, is as fresh, as the day I watch my granddaughter being born. It is an amazing thing to watch. Lots of swear words, some of which the nurses had never heard of. Some of which I had never heard of.
As I held this little baby in my arms, in that moment I knew what true love was, the trauma is forgotten. Being a grandmother is the most amazing thing. I am lucky enough to have a step grandson too.
I count myself lucky, and have something that money cannot buy.
Writer Ravenclaw 
A beautiful share Diana.
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Thank you
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My pleasure
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Such big babies! Although with new borns it’s always better to have them too big than too small 🙂 my son was nearly 2 ft long at birth, he was too long to cradle in one arm!
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The birth of a 14 pounds and 2 feet long baby was in the news yesterday 🙂
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Ouch! My aunty had a thirteen pound baby.
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They stretch capacity to the maximum 😀
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Crikey, what a whopper!
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I preferred them being bigger, I was less afraid.
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I agree! My nephew was 6lb at birth and even that felt way too tiny for me, holding him as a newborn was daunting.
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I preferred them big, I was less afraid.
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I’m sure the grandchildren give more joy 🙂 We have a saying that ‘interest amount is dearer than the principal given’. 🙂
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In that moment ………. by Diana Coombes
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❤
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