I dont know if this has been posted here before. I have recieved this email 3times in the last 2wks but thou I was post it here because it is sooo cute!!!

"Middle Wife"

> The "Middle Wife" by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher

> I've been teaching now for about fifteen years.

> I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the on I saw in
> my own second-grade classroom a few years back.

> When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions
> with my students.

> It helps them get over shyness and usually,show-and-tell is pretty tame.

> Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch,
> stuff like that.

> And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them.

> If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they're welcome.

> Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid,
> takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow
> Stuffed under her sweater.

> She holds up a snapshot of an infant. "This is Luke, my baby brother, and
> I'm going to tell you about his birthday."

> "First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a
> seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there.

> He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord."

> She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to
> laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me.

> The kids are watching her in amazement.

> "Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, 'Oh, Oh,
> Oh, Oh!'

> Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. "She walked around the house
> for, like an hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!'

> Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning.

> "My Dad called the middle wife.

> She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the
> Domino's man.

> They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this." Then Erica lies down with
> her back against the wall.
>
> "And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he
> got thirsty, and it just blew up
>
>
> And spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!" This kid has her legs
> spread
> with her little hands miming
> Water flowing away.
>
>
> It was too much!
>
> "Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe, breathe.
> They started counting, but never even got past ten.
>
>
> Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff
> that they all said it was from Mom's play-center, so there must be a lot
> of toys inside there."

> Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat.
> I'm sure I applauded the loudest.

> Ever since then, when it's show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just
> incase another "Middle Wife" comes along.