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"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you."
This is how the poet Kahlil Gibran expressed the mystery of childbirth. Have you ever wondered about it? For nine months babies are invisible to the outside world, and seem to be part of your body. Yet they are not. They are attached to you only by a cord. Your body produces the umbilical cord and the baby’s little life-support system, the placenta, but the baby itself has its own heart beat, it’s own blood supply with its own blood type, its own DNA and unique genetic code.
This is how the poet Kahlil Gibran expressed the mystery of childbirth. Have you ever wondered about it? For nine months babies are invisible to the outside world, and seem to be part of your body. Yet they are not. They are attached to you only by a cord. Your body produces the umbilical cord and the baby’s little life-support system, the placenta, but the baby itself has its own heart beat, it’s own blood supply with its own blood type, its own DNA and unique genetic code.
posted by Avery's mom at 5:58 PM
1 Comments:
Yes, a great mystery, a great miracle, a great joy.
They start out as one little cell and they start multiplying, and somehow the follow on cells know to make different kinds of cells, at the right time and to put them all in the right place, and to eventually make something so complex as a little baby.
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