And now for something completely different, I heard through one of my wisest friends today a report from an old midwife friend of hers.
We expect newborn babies to be pretty tuned out, eyes closed, dopey sleepy, oblivious. This midwife confirms that this is indeed how they used to arrive.
But babies today are different, paying attention much earlier, eyes wide open, engaging others, often even as they are still getting born. What’s that about?
Finn was not even half way born when he opened his mouth and let out a little mewl. A Mohawk friend of mine did the same thing at her birth and the Elders named her “She brings greetings from the Creator.”
In Finn’s case, it might have been something more akin to “Hep!”