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The Weight, The War, The Wonder
<p>Out in the hallway, the air pulsed with heartbeats and anxiety, every breath carried a prayer, every footstep, a plea. Time stood still, but the tension grew, expectations kept rising like incense in the sanctuary, and the silence, it was so thick it could crush stone.</p><p><br/></p><p>Meanwhile on the other side of the door, a woman fought a pain so great no one else could share — her only crime: choosing to bring life.</p><p><br/></p><p>Many imagine it's a "breeze in, breeze out" ordeal. I used to think so too, but it wasn't until I stood inside the delivery and operating rooms during clinicals earlier this year, watching both natural and surgical deliveries, that I understood. In truth, it’s like a tree weathering storms before bearing fruit that brings peace.</p><p><br/></p><p>The process of child birthing is not just about the labour process, it's about skipping your favourite meals and drinks, and some little pleasures to safeguard the health of a child you haven't met; it's regularly having to sit in a waiting room where time seems to move slower than a snail on a mission, and swallowing pills with names you can't even pronounce, all for the sake of another's growth; it's about your hormones waging a relentless civil war against you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Pregnancy drapes you with the heavy cloak of body changes, mood swings, cravings, exhaustion, and countless other battles only the body can name.</p><p><br/></p><p>And then comes labour — the real MVP. A pain fierce enough to slice through steel, and the piercing screams of strong women summoning a strength they never knew they had.</p><p>It’s not pretty, not poetic — just raw survival, teeth clenched, nails digging into skin.</p><p><br/></p><p>The aftermath of a nine-month journey.</p><p>A tiny cry from a tiny voice.</p><p>It dispels every worry.</p><p>It halts the pacing.</p><p>And it transforms the prayers in the hallway into praises.</p><p><br/></p>
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