Laura assisted Cathryn as she instructed her when to hold her breath and when to push with all her strength. A makeshift labour room was quickly arranged in the forest with the available materials in her car. Cathryn was alone without any provision for the birth of her baby. Laura knew that the weary woman must have had her own story, just as every other person had their own battles to fight.
Cathryn actively gave birth to her child, a baby girl.
“Congratulations, it is a girl.” Laura told her. Cathryn smiled and lay down slipping into sleep. She must have been tired as she looked travel weary too. Laura cleaned the baby girl, who was silently sucking on her thumb, in quiet understanding of her mother’s weariness. Putting the wrapped baby in the car, so she could clean up the mother, Lau
