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The "Middle Wife" by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher.
I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids
myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my
own
second-grade classroom a few years back.
When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few
sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and
usually,
show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model
airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that.
And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them If
they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they're
welcome.
Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very
outgoing
kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the
front of the class with a pillow
stuffed under her sweater.
She holds up a snapshot of an infant. "This is Luke, my baby
brother,
and I'm going to tell you about his birthday."
"First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then
Dad
put a seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there.
He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord."
She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying
not
to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me.
The kids are watching her in amazement.
"Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going,
'Oh,
Oh, Oh, Oh!' Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. "She
walked
around the house for, like an hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!' Now this kid is
doing a
hysterical duck walk and groaning.
"My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she
doesn't
have a sign on the car like the Domino's man.
They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this." Then Erica lies
down
with her back against the wall.
"And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in
case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the
bed, like
psshhheew!" This kid has her legs spread with her little hands
miming water flowing away. It was too much!
"Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe,
breathe.
They started counting, but never even got past ten
Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in
yucky
stuff that they all said it was from Mom's
play-center, so there must be a
lot of toys inside there."
Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to
her
seat.
I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it's
show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another
Middle
Wife" comes along.
Now you have two choices...laugh and close this page or pass this
along to some one else to spread the laughs.
I know what I did!!!
Live every day as if it is your LAST chance to make some one
happy!
Have a wonderful day!!