It was a stormy night it rained very much, the thunder shook
the earth accompanied by large lightning that illuminated all their
forms electrifying. One of them was felt so strong and so close that
all the houses on the outskirts cheered, it seemed that the World
would collapse. People prayed to God more credulous or Ms.
Fatima, so that time to subside. But this was not so giving you to
God so that confined them. In these houses lit by an antique oil
lamp, was a woman with some already advanced age to give birth
to their first child.
The pain has long been made to predict the birth, but when the
waters broke and that was worse. Not giving time, and time did
not allow otherwise would be coming to this small World. At that
time it was customary for older people, who already had children in
such cases be helpers of the newest. One was precisely the neighbor
who lived next door, called her Aunt Belmira nothing belonging to
the family. The mother said oh my rich aunt Belmira help me I'm
dying. Which answer, you will not die no child, because God is
with us. And this time it is happening is the testimony the own
before this Holy Birth.
José Cruz
It is what this winter's night between screams, blood and tears of
the mother, taking with just a bucket and a bowl of water and
some towels to clean the blood. In addition to his hands and
ancient knowledge, could help give birth to a new being born
already wide-eyed. Unusually at the time, was little more in the
middle of the nineteenth Century.
The mother felt that something had been torn from within,
exhausted and sore but somewhat relieved to have already fulfilled
the mission of giving birth, that child without having wished, by
virtue of being a sexual accident. He came to feel faint so the effort
spent to expel the baby, and because he failed to drive out some
debris that was still inside. She fell asleep! But after some time
coming around, he noticed that everything was calm and felt
excruciating pain in her womb, and was involved in a Turkish
towel with legs overlapping not to take more blood that belonged to
an internal hemorrhage.
She was dazed and confused, he asked in a trembling voice low and
husky Aunt Belmira what happened?
The witness of all that had happened he cried!
Do you remember the bad weather increasingly got worse as he
approached the moment when the boy was to be born?
Answered!
I have a vague idea!
For with much effort and pain do not you realized that soon after
being born and when I could indulge in my hands, he shouted so
loudly to breathe for the first time, towards the window where you
could see the lightning completely illuminated the room through
curtain, which as per your order immediately it was calm as you can
see.
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At that moment the cry was higher than the Lightning, making me
vibrate with him also that for some almost dropped.
Although you did not have full consciousness of what was
happening, that it was a unique moment in my long life that has
never felt and witnessed. It was as if God had just been born and
sent to silence the entire Universe came to watch his own birth.
Now what asked the new mother?
For the rest but now I must warn you that the boy will be very
restless.
And that since he was born until recently kept moving the eyes,
seems to want to understand everything that is happening around
him now.
But he already has his eyes open Belmira aunt?
The eyes open and well!
All my life I have helped and attended the birthś as you know,
that has not been so few; I've never seen anything like it! And I tell
you to throw it more; I never felt something like, a vibration
coming from his little body that I went round from head to toe. At
the same time it seemed that enveloped me in a beam of Light.
You have here a nice guy. Congratulations!
And something tells me it will be different from others, I had given
birth or who are helped to be born. It makes me have the feeling
that he already knows what is born!
Well for now continues to rest with the Angels. Come on now
talking about you, exclaimed Aunt Belmira!
You had an hour long and a very difficult birth; I was gone see this
for the better but always trusted in God to accompany us to the
three. And here we are!
I do not know, since repair for you just cannot move much and you
are all bandaged from the waist down. You have internal bleeding
and I do not much I can rely on. The boy is good and completely
free of danger, but you have to be treated in a hospital to get you
out yet you still have something inside you to need stop the blood.
José Cruz
For being so there is going to call the fire department.
Said the mother!
Aunt Belmira immediately picked up the phone and called the Fire
Department asking for an ambulance. Then the middle of the night
when everything was quiet only saw huge puddles of water on the
street that reflected the moonlight. They heard the distant roar of
an old engine of a car, which he entered the road that connected to
the house, the light from his headlights mirrored the torrents of
water that ran through the edges of the road.
They have arrived, said Aunt Belmira!
They who asked the mother still dazed.
Who would be the fire brigade!
Mother and son were transported there to the nearest hospital.
Upon arrival were immediately separated and the mother watched.
After being out of danger had to be hospitalized, and he handed the
baby back to breastfeeding.
In the days that followed the baby sucking but never felt satisfied.
And then cry with hunger. Then came to find that mother's milk
was not, only more or less water not quenched the baby.
Then someone who had also given birth at the hospital and after
giving to nurse your baby, noting that he still had some milk in the
breasts, gave the baby crying for mama.
Since then all other new mothers followed his example, they also
offer what was left for their anticipated future life.
Then the baby began to take another color for the children.
When was the hour of the breast, he even guessed a bit before you
start. Were it not for your little ones eyes give this signal through a
brighter glow, which would disappear as it would in other nursing
mothers who were offering him the breast.
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Until one day the good feeling of walking in the nursing mothers of
the other ended. He had been given discharge the mother.
Although he was one winter morning more resembled a beautiful
spring day. The rays of the sun seemed to be more welcoming to be
small, in the form of light that penetrated through the branches of
shade trees that lined the garden of the Hospital.
On that day the mother returned home with the baby in her arms.
But after reaching the baby was hungry already started looking
breast, the mother's womb, but that did not give anything.
Aunt Belmira it was the closest neighbor, was there helping and
teaching the new mother, as she had little food, through other foods
that could replace breast milk. They tried to milk powder, but he
rejected the cow mixed with water to not be as strong, took the
same path. And the child continued to cry with hunger. Until after
fifteen days after its birth when the mother was preparing to eat a
bread soup, the baby began to look at the plate and began to lend
an air of grace. The aunt Belmira who was nearby noticed and told
his mother not tells me that the boy wants to wake up?
I'll try said the mother.
There was seeking an empty beer bottle and a teat which served to
feed the little’s kid when they were separated from their mothers
(goats) for their milk is sold. And so there bread soup introduced
into the bottle and put the teat gave the baby that sucked all so
comforted.
Who would have exclaimed Aunt Belmira?
Never seen anything like this with only two weeks and already eat
bread soup! Well the future was beginning to emerge for Jose,
that's how we identify. With the offer by the grandfather of a goat
newly calved, to give milk for the little things started to improve
even more.
José Cruz
Until about six months of the wag who was not very strong but
energetically so after drinking a bottle of beer, milk and finding
that it contained nothing more to eat. That flung her against her
mother's head, which went crashing through the floor is starting.
This was his first major revolt in a gesture felt in action.
The mother in turn with a lovely bump on the head distressed by the
loss of the bottle and suffered with pain, still got up the guts to
sing him a lullaby to sleep. Starting with the bottle that bottle
called, had no choice but to pass the spoon to feed him.
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