The Wisdom Of The Doulas

November, 2006

My old mentor said we earn our dough the second day. I'm beginning to see what she meant. Yesterday the Gottwald baby was a beautiful, if slightly puckered, dream angel, fresh-pulled from his amniotic pleasure dome. Yesterday the Gottwalds were the stunned and grateful progenitors of a mewling miracle. We even did a group hug.Today the Gottwalds are the smug bastards they've probably always been, and the Gottwald baby, well, he might only be two days old, but I can already tell he's going to be...

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