Beneath the White Coat

Reflections from a mother-to-be Dear little one, You will be out into the world in approximately half a month... I thought about how best to "prepare" you for this world in the last 8 months. I have been reading a lot of parenting books, restricting my unhealthy cravings and exercising so you can be healthy in my womb, playing Mozart to calm you and your brain for whatever it's worth, and just reflecting on this journey upcoming for us, on what is means to be your mother in this life. I am slowly coming to the realization that there will not be adequate "preparation" for this journey you are about to embark on in this outside confusing place called "the world". You will just come, with some or all the senses you will be blessed with, you will see the world for all its colours and contrasting darkness, hear the world for all its beauty and coexisting injustice, smell the world's grace and parallel poverty, touch the hearts of lives ...