7lbs 8 oz

Did you know

there’s something called

the fetal expulsion reflex?

I don’t remember that

being on the ob-gyn shelf.

I tell my friends it was

WILD.

That’s all I can really say.

And I mean it literally:

Feral

Brutish

Instinctual

not like crazy.

Seemingly no sense of control,

like a hammer on your knee.

But since my body

knows what it’s doing–

and it’s always known–

it doesn’t matter

if my brain doesn’t.