BECOMING PARENTS

The transition into parenting is one of the most dramatics in life. We are at once overwhelmed with expectations, fears, bodily experiences, and new anxieties we never encountered before. These may sometimes be enhanced by life experiences such as loss, difficulties in getting pregnant, differences in the wills of the parents, etc. The couple is challenged by the presence of the child, from the moments in which he is merely imagined. We realize our lives and our relations with others are forever to be changed. This transition, powerful as it is, is often only superficially addressed in day to day life. Parenting makes us meet so many questions, concrete as well as abstract, and it brings us back in a sense to our own childhood representations. The woman carrying the baby and giving birth to it, is facing a moment that will shake her entire world, and goes back in a sense to being a teenager in desperate need of a directing hand. It so happens, that in transforming into parents- those that care for and nourish another, we are most invited to go through our own personal voyage, and to be cared for, so we can well do so for our child.