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Dearest Leive,
You have been in my thoughts for the past two days and I am just
writing to let you know that i am thinking of you and too see how things
are going.
Hope all is well
Regards
Rhonda
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Date: Saturday, 22
March 2003 08:52:37 PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery]
Story of love and warmth
Dear friends,
Thank you all for your replys, I
read them all carefully and I really feel
supported by
them.
Lynn, my heart is with you and the family of the stillborn
baby. During the
pregnancy I had a lot of conversations with Nele and
she felt very
supported and comforted when I told her that I believe
that no life is
without purpose, how long of how short it will take.
Nobody knows what
lessons we have to learn, but maybe for those little
baby's that are so
welcome but do not have much time, the feeling of
being welcome is the only
thing they have to learn.
Julie, you
spoke af a sad pathway, I don't feel it that way. When you can
see what
happens in these family, the changings of the peoples thinking
about
quality of live and the gratefullness of every minute they
have
together, I feel not sad at the end. There are moments of tears
but the
great picture is happiness.
Pinky, I gave your text 'the
child God lent' to the parents and they were
touched by it. They give
him to read to every visitor. It explains very good
what they (and I)
feel, even they are not very religieus.
Debby, I think the memories
of your own child come very clear again when
reading all those
postings. It's so good you can now celebrate the being of
your son in
stead of grieving the loss.
Thanks Tina, Janet, Sally, Sandy,
Marilyn, Denise, Margie, Mary, Aviva,
Megan and Robin, also for your
warm replys full of support and usefull
advice.
Rhonda, I kept
you last. Thank you so much for the poem you wrote. I gave it
to the
parents and they were very touched and they let it read to
everybody
that comes near. I truly hope that the lovecircle that Lars
created will be
counterweight against all the violence of the war.
I
plan to write his story for the Flamish journal for midwifes. I would
ask
you if I can use your poem to illustrate my
story?
Meanwhile, Lars is happy and triving. He already passed
his birthweight. The
parents went walking to the cityhall, with Lars in
a sleng to make his birth
official. They are really greatfull for the
moments they have, every day is
a milestone.
Some reactions of
people are not so nice to the parents. There are still
people (thos who
didn't see Lars) that wonder if an abortion wasn't been a
better
option. But Nele and Frederik are laughing with those reactions,
they
know they made the right decision.
For me, the week was
hard, but also very rich. So many people are around us
to support. The
mothers of the birthcentre are very involved. They are
visiting Nele
and they call me to ask how I am. It's a real circle I dreamt
of when I
started the birthcentre. The midwife that cares and the mothers
that
care for the midwife, it creats a balance for everybody. When you
wrote
a book about it nowbody would believe it can be real
:-))
Warm hugs
Lieve
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