2 posts tagged “congratulations”

I just want to congratulate my friend Teri, her husband Troy, and their two sons Austin and Cody on the birth of a brand new and healthy baby boy, born today, named Dillan Avery.

Teri, as soon as you get home and can sit properly, we're all expecting pictures of the little one! Better yet, you rest, lay down with the baby and have Troy post the pictures!

So damn happy for ya!

I want to congratulate a friend of mine here on Vox.

Ana and her husband have been fighting to become mother and father for six long years. Fertility problems have led them to the miracle that is modern medicine and now, six years of hoping and wishing have finally come to a happy end - she is pregnant!

Ana, I know I've said it before but you are such an inspiration to me. And not just to me, you're also an inspiration to women, to femininity and to nurturing, to hope ... and to life.

I've watched you write about wanting to become a mother and your struggle to become pregnant from my computer screen, in my home. Many times I cried with you and laughed with you and often, I couldn't help but identify with what you were going through as I have gone through similar things, in a way, in the struggle to become pregnant and the dream of being a mother merging into a two--line, positive test result of tears of joy, long wished for, happiness induced reality.

Those who know me well know my son is my miracle and the fact he is here truly is a blessing and a gift for me. And now, those who know you will know what this means to you too. Others will see you in all your glory, beautiful and woman to the fullest, as you chose to be, as you carry the life within that you fought for. You really are an inspiration to me, and to women.

I know that you will be the best mother. I can't think of a more deserving woman than you. You have finally made it. Just think, in a few days a heart beat will form. Move time forward to a few months from now. Life resembling you and your husband will be snuggled in your body, safe and warm, waiting to be born - because you and your husband love each other and fought for this this dream to come true.

I have a poem for you.

The Woman With Child

How am I held within a tranquil shell,

Life. Birth. Motherhood.

As if I too were close within a womb,
I too enfolded as I fold the child.

As the tight bud enwraps the pleated leaf,
The blossom furled like an enfolded fan,
So life enfold me as I fold my flower.

As water lies within a lovely bowl,
I lie within my life, and life again
Lies folded fast within my living cell.

The apple waxes at the blossom's root,
And like the moon, I mellow to the round
Full circle of my being, till I too

Am ripe with the living and my fruit is grown.
Then break the shell of life. We shall be born,
My child and I, together, to the sun.

- Freda Laughton

Congratulations to Ana and her husband on their long awaited pregnancy and miracle.