Well at least my baby is coming head first!

Okay so what the heck am I talking about…you see I have been in Zimbabwe for 10 weeks now and I did not realize the baby I wanted and was preparing for is coming…My Baby’s name is Zimbabwe and I am in the labour process of cultural adaptation/integration!

For those of you who have had a child you understand that the end result is what you want - that beautiful little creation that you have worried about, started to love, and wonder what exactly it will look like…you just can’t wait!

So for me my baby is Zimbabwe and my labour process started 10 week ago and guess what I was unaware…in early labour (yep here goes my Doula on you now!) sometimes a woman does not know she is in labour. There are changes happening on the inside but they are minor enough she does not know the Big changes and contractions are about to come. You see labour is an inevitable part of having a baby and (no offence here) if you miss labour and go straight to a Cesarean Birth you actually miss out on some of the vital hormones etc that your body was made to produce. Some of the conditioning to being a mother(or missionary in my case)  comes from the time spent in labour, in fact the pains of labour are very biblical and indeed something that God wanted us to experience. So as I birth my baby we will nickname him “Zimmy”,  I was so trying to control the whole thing…I just realized as I tell my mom’s in labour it just needs to happen to you… you can position yourself well but, then it just has to take its time and work its way out.

Well Zimmy was being a BIG pain over the last few weeks and now I realize I do not need to be afraid anymore, I do not need to try to control it anymore, all I need to do it TRUST…awe ladies you know when they tell you that in labour sometimes it is easy and sometimes it makes you want to lob the head off of your Doula or you Caregiver…well today I think I found my “Missionary Doula” and when she reminded me to trust I was so relieved…

So here is to the labour that it takes to birth little Zimmy…he is going to be so cute you just wait! Oh ya and you can tell me I am doing a great job along the way - encouragement does not hurt! (that’s my Doula talk again!)

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