It wasn’t just Romie’s birthday yesterday was it?

It was also her mums. Her mum gave birth to her on that day, 3 years ago. It’s a shared Birth Day. More memorable for her mum in fact, than for Romie herself.

There are many of us who have never given birth to new life. Some of us because we can’t, some of us because we choose not to, and some because the time hasn’t come yet.

Having witnessed the experience on several occasions, from the outside looking in, it appears both magical and mysterious and, at the end, almost savage. Of all the imaginings that can be imagined, to be pregnant and give birth is one of the hardest to imagine.

But we can all bear New Life in our own ways. And we will need a lot of the same qualities which a mother needs -patience, love, endurance, and hope.

New life is both inevitable and it is a choice.

But when that new life is finally born, it will be out of our control.

Even if we try to persuade ourselves otherwise.