This was life force she was witnessing, the miracle that is a mother’s energy and body—a body that physically transforms itself before a person’s very eyes—and the miracle that is the baby, a soul in a physical vessel that is tiny but strong, capable of pushing itself into the world and almost instantly breathing and squirming and crying on its own.
I started researching the novel about six months after my wife’s and my daughter was born. I started writing it when she was almost a year old.
When I watched my lovely bride in labor and witnessed our daughter being born, I understood – as do most parents – the majesty of what was occurring. Yes, all animals reproduce. But as I believe Thomas Moore once observed, birth is about as close as we humans come to divinity.
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