More than life

It's funny in the United States that you have to wait 8 weeks to adopt a newborn puppy so it can be properly weaned but ... a Mother of a newborn baby goes back to work after only six weeks of maternity leave.

It really isn't maternity leave.

It's all the vacation and sick days that's been saved up.

Who makes such silly rules?

Employers ... the Insurance Industry ... Government?

In the United States we talk about children being the most important thing but ... they're not.

If they were the country would really have maternity leave ... or ... at least treat our newborns as good as we do our dogs.

In full disclosure, I've never been pregnant or borne a child ... though I'm very close to some who have.

Other than watching it happen, I know nothing of the changes to a woman's body, the hormones running amuck, the pain of delivery, the shock of having your center of the Universe change ... and the lame ass American Health Care system that allows a woman 9 months to have a baby and 6 months to recover.

It's apparent men still run things.

I don't know shit about actually having a baby ... I'm more a contributing witness ... and I watch Sarah struggle to get back to normal in the federally sanctioned pre-allotted time line.

I do know though that the greatest miracle in humanity is the authoring of life ... taking what's given to a woman and making eyeballs, livers, feet, skin, hair and somehow sewing them all together in a living breathing person.

That's pretty God-like because ... well ... God's the only other to do it ever.

It's far better than what men create ... profit making companies that don't give a rat's ass about it's employees ... Government ... institutional religion ... competitive fishing ... and outlet malls.

Watching Sarah struggle to recover both physically and emotionally within the guidelines of stupid policies and profit shares, I'm a bit ashamed as I roll merrily along ... doing the things I pretty much do all of the time ... just with a baby.

My wife has suspended all activity save loving Che ... making her the center of the Universe ... while ignoring her own needs ... while we continue to make the same demands on her because ... that's what we've always done.

No wonder there's the theology of an angry God!

You give them and they want more?!

It'd piss me off.

But Sarah struggles through, really needing to be the center of attention while healing from creating life ... while the rest of us commit the sin of always wanting more than what we've been given.