My new life

Almost exactly one year ago, to the hour, my labour commenced, and so my new life began to make himself known.

I am so much more relaxed - and so much more physically comfortable, it must be acknowledged - than I was this time last year.

I was almost a mother, then, now I have just become a mother, odd as it may sound, but it has taken me almost a year to fully become a mother, to feel as a mother, to be fully and totally in love with my child.

What a wonderful gift we were about to receive this time last year. Odd to think I had never met him, then, and had no idea what his face would look like. What is now so familiar, was then so unknown.