My friend Leah's cartilage is disintegrating in her hips. She is 3 months preggers and apparently this is what happens when you get pregnant so that your bones can move aside so the baby can come out. You become like Mama Gumby which is completely and totally terrifying concept to me. Leah is one of my best friends and watching her go through all this is somewhat surreal and unsettling to me, but I am kind of glad I can closely observe and know what I am getting into before I get knocked up one day myself. Perhaps the birth process feels so weird and foreign because our modern day culture has been so far removed from the birthing process, or perhaps because one of my best friends has an alien in her body that is taking over and making her boobs bigger and her cartilage disintegrate.
I began thinking the other day about how weird and inevitable and yet fascinating the whole motherhood thing is. You lose your body, your life, your schedule, at times your sanity, and host a foreign object in your body for 9 months that ends up in a lot of pain and throwing up and heartburn for some of it. A woman becomes a true servant it seems at this time. The ultimate sacrifice of mind, body, and soul in order to bring forth life. A vessel for which to carry another human being through the portal into this world. As I grow older and have now found my first gray hair this afternoon at the gym I am beginning to realize how inevitable this whole baby thing is.
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