Giving Birth Under Fire

So much for Nassaralla saying they tried not to hit civilians... A hospital was hit yesterday in the town of Sefad. As soon as I heard the name of the hospital, the first thing that occured to me was that this was the place where my sister-in-law gave birth to her children. And sure enough, the picture on the front page of the paper this morning, was of a women in labour being taken down to the shelter. There is something very dramatic about giving birth under fire. I remember the same in the Gulf war. Something very cpativating about how life doesn't stop, no matter what. You can postpone a lot of things, but when a baby's time has come to get into the world, there is no stopping that.

Giving birth, especially for the first time, can be a pretty stressful event. I can only imagine adding rocket explosions to that :( So, this post is for all the moms out there, going through labor and delivery right now, here and in Lebanon too. Let's hope these babies end up growing up in a more peaceful region than they had been born to...