...There is a sound that creeps up...it's like no other sound I ever heard. When it pulls at the hairs on the back of your neck, that's how you know it's time...
...Mabel closed her eyes and let out a long, anguished wail. Bertine and Sadie cried out loud beside her, moaning right with her, all three women letting out heavy groans...the baby slipped out, all milky looking and wet...
...I recorded the days events...still amazed at the way it felt to be the first person to bring her hands to a child's life.
29 March 2009
from The Birth House
scenes from a birth in The Birth House by Ami McKay
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I'm looking forward to this book becoming a movie... what a great story! There is (as you might already know) a facebook group "occasional knitters club" Ami has set up for us fans too (0:
good call - it would (will?) be a great movie...and I'm a member of the FB group! Love her pictures.
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