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Monday, June 30, 2008

And The Winners Are....

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Happy Birth Days Carnival! I am really enjoying reading everyone's stories. Mostly I love that everyone was able to say exactly what they wanted to say, and since I'm reading them from the comfort of my living room, neither I nor anyone else can jump in and interrupt your stories and talk about when we needed Pitocin!

I think it's important to be able to share something that is so important to us. After I become a mother, someone told me that sometimes birthdays are hard on moms. Yeah, no kidding! Your kid is getting older, and sometimes sulkier, and while I personally am grateful that my kids are healthy and celebrating each birthday, there's a part of me that just a teeny bit said that with each day their babyhoods are a little farther behind. (Then I have to change a diaper in a public bathroom and that regret gets tossed out faster than the actual diaper.)

Although our children's birthdays or adoptions are the anniversaries of when we became mothers (or dads, aunts, or grandmothers) for the first (or sixth) time. Yet somehow that fact seems to be forgotten. There's the emotion and sometimes the physical pain. Sometimes we still have physical scars from the births, and sometimes there are emotional scars as well, despite how glorious and wonderful that day was. If there was a difficult birth or if there were stressful events around the time of the birth or adoption, those feelings can resurface on their anniversary which of course is...ta dah...your kid's birthday. For all those reasons, I think it's important to always have the option to be able to tell your story. I therefore am grateful to everyone who participated.

Please feel free to continue to add your posts to Mr. Linky. Just because the raffle is over doesn't mean the carnvial is closed. I know of a couple posts that are still coming. On that note, I used random.org to draw the names of the two winners. They are Mayberry Mom and Jen. Congratulations!

Thank you also to Mir over at BlogHer for writing about the Happy Birth Days Carnival!

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Everyone's birth story is unique, and everyone's birth story is precious.

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