It's impossible to imagine a body made from my body no longer also my body.
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—11 dec 2015— It is the new moon today, the last new moon of the year, and the last new moon before the baby’s arrival. The being is due to enter the world on the first full moon of 2016. A Capricorn. I took the first bath of this pregnancy today. I hadn't taken one before because I had been anxious that the water will raise my body temperature and harm the baby in some way. But now I am almost 36 weeks and I couldn’t not. I set up some beeswax candles and kept the water a steady warm temperature with a candy thermometer. It was the first time I had visualized my birth, seeing the water between my legs floating around my protruding belly. I visualized us in the water—the being emerging out of me with me. As the baby rolled inside me I imagined it rolling in the water, smiling.
It's impossible to imagine a body made from my body no longer also my body.
It's impossible to imagine a body made from…
It's impossible to imagine a body made from my body no longer also my body.
—11 dec 2015— It is the new moon today, the last new moon of the year, and the last new moon before the baby’s arrival. The being is due to enter the world on the first full moon of 2016. A Capricorn. I took the first bath of this pregnancy today. I hadn't taken one before because I had been anxious that the water will raise my body temperature and harm the baby in some way. But now I am almost 36 weeks and I couldn’t not. I set up some beeswax candles and kept the water a steady warm temperature with a candy thermometer. It was the first time I had visualized my birth, seeing the water between my legs floating around my protruding belly. I visualized us in the water—the being emerging out of me with me. As the baby rolled inside me I imagined it rolling in the water, smiling.