Motherhood

'Positive' in clear and blue it says...

Take a deep breath and the mind sways...

With a smile, nod, and a wink...

You say to him, 'It's what we think!"

Tests, checks and routine scans,

Excited moms, dads, and grans...

Do this, don't do that, take care...

Stress, weights, fatigue - don't you dare!

Eat good, think good and rest well,

It's for the baby, not you, they tell...

Slowly there is this small little bump,

Feeling it, the heart does a jump!

The day of the first ultrasound,

A tiny form, we both watch spellbound...

A life within, a flickering heartbeat,

A wonder or just nature's feat?

Tiny feet, tiny hands, baby sounds, baby smells

Upon all this and more, your mind now dwells.

The time comes close to end all longings,

And thus the labor of love begins.

Through the pain, what's the drive all along?

To meet you, my little one is all I long.

My Angel, my life now you will adorn,

And With the Child, a Mother is born.

I penned this poem when we were expecting our child. The tag line ‘With the Child, a Mother is born’ was in a Johnson and Johnson advertisement,that inspired my poem.