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Beautiful blessing
  1. Victoria Ann Ribbons
  1. Correspondence to Victoria Ann Ribbons, Knowledge Spa, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall TR1 2BX, UK; victoria.ribbons{at}students.pms.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2012-010233

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    I am so happy. Blooming they call it.

    We worry about you -

    mummy must still take her tablets.

    To make her better, to keep us safe.

    We stare at you on the screen,

    Our bouncing bean. Our precious little girl.

    I do not know why but sadness encompasses me

    It drowns me, it steals my bloom.

    One minute you're there in my belly

    I know you're there, constantly jabbing, reminding me

    I don't quite know what I think of you but

    You can't come out yet, you're too small -

    Everywhere is in pain, all over, all-consuming pain

    My head aches, my body hurts, you're killing me.

    My body bulges.

    I want you out, I want it over. Hurry up.

    I am laid out on my back. White. Sterile smell.

    Tugging, pulling, fighting. Talking.

    You are torn out of me 3 months too early

    I glimpse you, you are rushed away.

    You live in a box, I don't see you for 3 days

    Everyone else does.

    You're beautiful, I'm told, a real fighter.

    I didn't want you out, I didn't want it over. It's too …

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.