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T

hese days, it is not
unusual to find me
awake at 2 a.m., at
3:30 a.m., and then
again at dawn. I watch in-
fomercials and tabloid TV and
"Wild, Wild West" reruns. I
read a lot. I drink copious
amounts of orange juice and,
when I can find them, Ver-
nor's slurpees.
Last January I gave birth to -
my third child, a little girl
named Talya Devora. It was a
fairly easy labor (if you can
ever call labor easy), and I
was fortunate enough to have
a terrific doctor, Jerrold Wein-
berg, to deliver her.
Talya is a dark-haired beauty
who smiles a lot, is easygoing
and says "goo" in a tiny voice
that's so sincere, so eager to
please it never fails to move me
to tears. When Talya gets up to
nurse in the middle of the
night I am glad that we have
time alone together.
Childbirth is the most mirac-
ulous of occurrences -- more
wondrous for me than the part-
ing of the Red Sea, the Ten
Plagues, the manna from heav-
en. The mystery of it all is in-
comprehensible, inexplicable.
The urgency I feel to record
my children's every look, their
every clever or thoughtful or
charming comment, is over-
whelming. I do not want to
forget the way my eldest
daughter, Adina, looks while
she'S kissing Talya and calling
her "my little sweetheart." I
want to remember how, when
I told my 3-1 /2-year-old son,
Yitzhak, "Oh, Yitz, I'm so glad
you're my boy," he answered
"Oh, Mommy, I'm so glad
you're my girl."
My fear at the fragility of ex-

Talya Devora Applebaum

istence — because everything
passes too quickly and could be
gone in a heartbeat -- is tem-
pered only by my gratitude for
all my blessings.
I have a favorite song, "Papir
Iz Doch Vays," in which the
singer yearns not for gold or sil-
ver but simply to be with her
sweetheart in a small house on
a hill. So, too, do I feel content,
and endlessly fortunate, to live
in a nice little house with my
true love and our children.
Having children is, I am con-
vinced, the nicest thing in life.
It makes you humble and pa-
tient and develops your sense
of humor (how else to survive
the dreaded bedtime hour?).
And above all, it proves the
power of love.
"Before you were conceived,
I wanted you," author Mau-
reen Hawkins wrote in The
Miracle. "Before you were
born, I loved you. I would die
for you. This is the miracle of
life." ❑

Elizabeth Applebaum
Editor

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