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Be Not Afraid losing a BabyChapter 4losing a BabyThe birth of a baby is one of the greatest miracles ofcreation. After months of waiting and hours of painfullabor, a new being comes into the world. Since timebegan, the gift of new life has been celebrated with greatjoy. As the Gospel of John puts it, “When a woman isin travail, she has sorrow, because her hour has come;but when she is delivered of the child, she no longerremembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born intothe world.” Yet there is wisdom in the old saying thata woman in labor has one foot in the grave. Even inour day, every birth is attended by some anxiety for thehealth of both mother and child, and there is alwaysthe chance of something going mortally wrong.Writing about the conflicting emotions thatsurrounded the birth of her first child, Dorli, the wifeof one of my nephews, writes: