"Now a child is the very sign and sacrament of personal freedom. He is a fresh free will added to the wills of the world; he is something that his parents have freely chosen to produce and ... freely agree to protect. They can feel that any amusement he gives (which is often considerable) really comes from him and from them, and from nobody else.
He has been born without the intervention of any master or lord. He is a creation and a contribution; he is their own creative contribution to creation.
He is also a much more beautiful, wonderful, amusing and astonishing thing than any of the stale stories or ... tunes turned out by the machines ... People who prefer the mechanical pleasures to such a miracle are jaded and enslaved. They are preferring the very dregs of life to the first fountains of life... It is they who are hugging the chains of their old slavery; it is the child who is ready for the new world."
-G.K. Chesterton
PS That "contractions" comment was not some sort of hint. I get these for a long time before labor. Or you could say I'm in labor for weeks. Whichever makes you feel happy...not sure which way I prefer to think about it...;)
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