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The Middle Wife
By a... 2nd grade teacher.
I've been teaching now for about fifteen years.
I have two kids myself, but the best birth story,
I know is the one, I saw in my own second-grade...
Classroom a while back.
When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell.
So I always have a few sessions with my students.
It helps them get over shyness and usually...
Show-and-tell is pretty tame.
Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes,
Pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that.
And I never, ever place any boundaries
Or limitations on them.
If they want to lug it in to school and...
Talk about it, they're welcome.
Well, one day this little girl, Erica...
A bright, very outgoing kid,
Takes her turn and waddles up to the...
Front of the class with a pillow,
Stuffed under her sweater.
She holds up a snapshot of an infant.
"This is Luke, my baby brother,
And I'm going to tell you about his birthday.
First, Mum and Dad made him
As a symbol of their love, and then Dad
Put a seed in my Mum's stomach,
And Luke grew in there.
He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord."
She's standing there with her hands on the pillow,
I'm trying not to laugh and wishing,
I had my camcorder with me.
The kids are watching her in amazement.
"Then, about two Saturdays ago,
My Mum starts saying and going,
'Oh,oh, oh, oh!' "
Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans.
"She walked around the house for, like an hour,
'Oh, oh, oh!'"
Now this kid is doing a...
Hysterical duck walk and groaning.
"My Dad called the middle wife.
She delivers babies,
But she doesn't have a sign on...
Her car like the Domino's man."
"They got my Mum to lie down in bed like this."
Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall.
"And then, pop!
My Mum had this bag of water she kept in there
In case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled...
All over the bed, like psshhheew!"
This kid has her legs spread and
With her little hands are miming water flowing away. It was too much!
I had to cross everything to stop laughing!
"Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,'
And 'breathe, breathe.'
They started counting, but never even got past ten.
Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother.
He was covered in yucky stuff,
They all said it was from Mum's play-centre!,
So there must be a lot of stuff inside there."
Then Erica stood up,
Took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat.
I'm sure... I applauded the loudest.
Ever since then, if it's show-and-tell day,
I bring my camcorder, just in case...
Another Erica comes along.
When I read this little show and tell story
It just made me smile so much because children,
Are so perceptive and innocent that they say what...
They see with total honesty and interpretation.
So I hope you all enjoy this glimpse into a little girls
thoughts of how her brother was concieved and born!
I just love the story and I just smiled for days
because chlidren are so precious and delightful with
their own little stories and thoughts on how things work.
So smile and enjoy Erica's story.
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10:35 - Tuesday, August 8, 2006 -
Dear Dawn
I absolutely loved that story and will treasure it always, it makes me think of what I am missing out on godddddd i can hear my inner biological clock tick tock tick tock tick tock lol
Sincerely, (((((((((Hugs and Blessings to my Dawnie))))))))))))))
Heather
Heather - 19:58 - Tuesday, August 8, 2006
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