Mother's Day: My Way

But Wait, There's More

by

Sheila Curran

When my mother phoned with the news that my sister Cathy had delivered her second child, a boy we'd come to call Tommy, she said, "Sheila, I don't know how she does it!"

    At the time, I didn't think to remind Mom that she'd given birth herself.  If you're doing the math, you're thinking "Right! At least twice."

    The truth is stranger still. My mother had ten labors. Yes. Even back in the Sixties when many Catholics followed the Church's ban...