on the kindness and generosity of "strangers"
I'm part of a medium-sized online community, a message board, made up of mostly moms. I spend a lot of time reading there, and a moderate amount of time posting. They're smart, funny, kind, and lovely women. I've made friendships there.
They've all been privy to all the details of this pregnancy, and have really bolstered me throughout. It blows my mind how many of them have been so kind, so thoughtful, and really invested time and energy in sending me prayers and positive thoughts.
But it's not just prayers, positive thoughts, and other intangibles. One is knitting a sweater for the baby, and one poster's mother is knitting a sweater, as well! Her mother!
Another sent me a message today that just totally blew me away. I sat here and cried as I read it. Her son was born with a serious health problem, and they spent a lot of time in the hospital. There was this one blanket that she'd wrap him up in, and hold him and rock him and ponder their life. This blanket has a lot of meaning. He (her son) said at one point that it had helped because "babies in Bob the Builder blankets don't die." When she was reading online about giant omphaloceles after our baby was diagnosed with it, her son came up and looked at the screen and asked about it. She told him that she had a friend online who's baby had this condition, and explained it. He wants to send us this blanket, so we can wrap our baby in it and rock her!
I'm completely stunned at that. It's shockingly kind. So much for "strangers on the internet," eh?
They've all been privy to all the details of this pregnancy, and have really bolstered me throughout. It blows my mind how many of them have been so kind, so thoughtful, and really invested time and energy in sending me prayers and positive thoughts.
But it's not just prayers, positive thoughts, and other intangibles. One is knitting a sweater for the baby, and one poster's mother is knitting a sweater, as well! Her mother!
Another sent me a message today that just totally blew me away. I sat here and cried as I read it. Her son was born with a serious health problem, and they spent a lot of time in the hospital. There was this one blanket that she'd wrap him up in, and hold him and rock him and ponder their life. This blanket has a lot of meaning. He (her son) said at one point that it had helped because "babies in Bob the Builder blankets don't die." When she was reading online about giant omphaloceles after our baby was diagnosed with it, her son came up and looked at the screen and asked about it. She told him that she had a friend online who's baby had this condition, and explained it. He wants to send us this blanket, so we can wrap our baby in it and rock her!
I'm completely stunned at that. It's shockingly kind. So much for "strangers on the internet," eh?