Thing with having a baby - I can't be the only one who noticed - is that thereafter you have it.

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[Afternoon of Thursday, July 15 (day 410)]
[Out 'round the corner of Sentinel House]

I've managed through worse sleep, though I suppose not for as long as this is like to last; can't count on the first two days t'end with the third. Yesterday's and today's rain are running loose into each other; had a moment of taking it still for Wednesday, one of the times I woke.

Not counting it as there being no work to be done, now, but glad at least to have the birthing behind me.

Open the door and set her down inside and swaddled and dry, then settle sitting in the doorway with my back against the doorjamb and listen to the rain. The air alone's warm; the fall of water takes it down to something like the cool side of a pillow on a hot night, and it aches to draw my knees towards my chest and wrap my arms 'round them, but for a change it's possible. And leastways it's quiet of the moment.

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Thing with having a baby - I can't be the only one who noticed - is that thereafter you have it.

[glass-beddau.livejournal.com]

[Afternoon of Thursday, July 15 (day 410)]
[Out 'round the corner of Sentinel House]

I've managed through worse sleep, though I suppose not for as long as this is like to last; can't count on the first two days t'end with the third. Yesterday's and today's rain are running loose into each other; had a moment of taking it still for Wednesday, one of the times I woke.

Not counting it as there being no work to be done, now, but glad at least to have the birthing behind me.

Open the door and set her down inside and swaddled and dry, then settle sitting in the doorway with my back against the doorjamb and listen to the rain. The air alone's warm; the fall of water takes it down to something like the cool side of a pillow on a hot night, and it aches to draw my knees towards my chest and wrap my arms 'round them, but for a change it's possible. And leastways it's quiet of the moment.

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