Bethany C. Meyers Instagram – Yesterday we walked the kids down to the beach for some fresh salt air, everyone came down with a nasty cold this weekend (minus me so far 🤞🏼) so per usual we used the beach as our healing ground.
While there — Nico holding our toddler and me holding our baby — I started to think about my pregnancy with Pesce and how much the ocean played a part in his entrance to the world.
I stood at this beach the day he was conceived.
I prayed for him here when l convinced myself we had miscarried again.
I used the ocean to prepare for labor – imagining the waves filling my uterus and washing open my cervix.
The ocean roared with a hurricane when my water broke, and once the storm had passed, I labored here while staring at the waves.
When it was time to push, we turned off the music and listened to the ocean instead.
The beach was the first adventure he went on and nap times have been spent with feet in the sand, sounds of waves in the ears.
And now I stand at this familiar place, my mother’s intuition heightened from having sick babies tucked into my arms and I think about the passing of time and the waves of life. How each moment, each phase, each struggle and triumph comes and goes and subtly changes the terrain we stand on.
And then I thought about these photos, the final weeks before three became four and our world cracked open once again. ✨
📸 by @createanomaly | Posted on 19/Jan/2025 23:11:53
