Thursday, June 3, 2010

The Love of My Life


Having Logan has been the best experiences of my life. Words cannot express how much this beautiful extension of myself as truly changed my life.

Throughout my entire pregnancy onward, I have realized the lasting importance of attachment. Even throughout the womb, the unborn child and mother are symbiotically bonding to one another. The fetus becomes familiar with the mother's voice and her heart beat which is carried through pregnancy onto the rest of the newborn's life. When Logan was about 2 months old I witnessed the beauty in his attachment towards me, his biological mother. I was shocked to reflect back on my own birth and how I did not have the same attachment period to my own birthmother. I bonded with her in the womb and was torn away from the mother that I was bonded to and thrown into a foster home for three months. I believe that, subconsciously, this early period in my life has made a lasting impact on my development and who I am as a person.