La Trenza del Barrio

On Tuesday, February 4th, I began experiencing what I later realized were actual contractions. I didn't think too much of it because they only lasted during the early morning hours and subsided later that day. It was a different story when Wednesday, February 5th rolled around. The contractions began at midnight and stayed. I didn't know I was experiencing legitimate contractions. I just thought they were the pre-labor contractions I read about. I figured, my next appointment with my doctor was on the morning of the 5th, so I would ride it out. But the pain was so intense. For eight hours, I had 1 minute contractions in 5 minute intervals. Then later in the morning, they became a little less consistent, but still intense when they came.  I didn't know that my doctor would have me admitted to the hospital, but it looked like baby girl was ready. My doctor told me I was already halfway there, dilated at a 5. It becomes kind of blurry after I was admitted into the hospital...

People come and go to and from our lives like the tide. Some are meant to stay for a couple of chapters in our book of life and some are meant for just one. No matter what it looks like, it is to be embraced for what it becomes, how it evolves and then released when and if the time comes to release it. It's Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending, life and death. Sometimes all we are meant to experience is just a chapter. And that's ok. It's beautiful for the memories and lessons it leaves behind! Understanding that we are not to be attached to anything, is a very important lesson to life itself. I think what limits us is that we must completely trust ourselves with the perceptions of what we believe is right. The idea is to understand that what others think doesn't matter. No one lives our life. We live our life. And when someone judges our decisions, that is none of our business. We have to remember this every time someone tries to challenge the way we see life. L...