The Ice is Singing
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When Ruth was being born, after I had lain in misery for seven hours, contracting without my cervix opening at all, the hospital shift changed and a new midwife came on. She was calm. Although she was efficient, she seemed to be giving only a fraction of her attention to what she was doing – the rest was absorbed elsewhere, in some great mind-expanding well of tranquillity. As if she could calmly have run the world and still had attention over to gaze at the stars. She examined me a...nd said, ‘You’re fighting it. Go with it, stop fighting it. Let the pain do its work.’ At first I was angered – I was doing the best I could. As each new wave of pain rose and mounted I was clenching myself and resisting it, beating it off. I hadn’t let it make me cry or call out, I had the upper hand. I was fighting the pain that was attacking my body: my muscles were tense against it, my spine was stiff to repel it. ‘Relax,’ she told me.
For a while, as I tried to relax, as I tried to imagine pain ‘doing its work’, pulling open clenched muscles, pushing back tight fearful walls of flesh to make space enough for a baby’s head, I understood her.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
20 Open.
When Ruth was being born, after I had lain in misery for seven hours, contracting without my cervix opening at all, the hospital shift changed and a new midwife came on. She was calm. Although she was efficient, she seemed to be giving only a fraction of her attention to what she was doing – the rest was absorbed elsewhere, in some great mind-expanding well of tranquillity. As if she could calmly have run the world and still had attention over to gaze at the stars. She examined me a...nd said, ‘You’re fighting it. Go with it, stop fighting it. Let the pain do its work.’ At first I was angered – I was doing the best I could. As each new wave of pain rose and mounted I was clenching myself and resisting it, beating it off. I hadn’t let it make me cry or call out, I had the upper hand. I was fighting the pain that was attacking my body: my muscles were tense against it, my spine was stiff to repel it. ‘Relax,’ she told me.
For a while, as I tried to relax, as I tried to imagine pain ‘doing its work’, pulling open clenched muscles, pushing back tight fearful walls of flesh to make space enough for a baby’s head, I understood her.
What to read after The Ice is Singing?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Jane Rogers to read onlineMoreLess
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