A Father's Affirmation

I Will Support   By Patricia Blomme   I wonder.  I wonder how she feels.  There is life in her.  Life I can not see,  except in her face when she looks at me. She is beautiful!  More beautiful than the day  when I first fell in love with her. Now she carries my child.  Our Child.  She is so strong.  She carries the strength of a millions of women before her.  She will need this strength.  I will be strong for her.  An unspoken strength that will protect her at her most vulnerable time. I must trust her.  I must trust her body.  Just as she responded to my touch,  she will respond to the life force with in her. I must help her trust her body.  I will understand the special moments that she calls out to share. I will take hold of the child before the birth has happened,  before movement is ever felt. I will cherish every time I feel the child move within her.  This is my first contact.  I will talk to this wonderful child of mine, ours.  I will talk so that my voice is known.  When our child opens his eyes,   I will quietly greet him. He will know me.  I will stand by while my love accomplishes her labor of love. She does this for me.  She has taken a vow to bring forth this child in health and vigor. I must do the same.  I will support her in her hardest moments.  Doing all that she asks.  Without question.  I will trust her to know what she needs.  I know my love is experiencing the emotions of birth.  Though she calls out with the waves.  I will help her to surrender to them.  With surrender the body will open.  With surrender the pain is triumphed over.  With surrender,  The child is born.

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