It's been 12 years since you helped me become a mother.
12 years since you forever marked my body.
You arrived right on schedule—painful, I won't deny it, but with a serene purpose: to set me free and deliver this tiny, resilient bundle of love.
For 12 years, I've grown to know you, live with you, and watched you fade gently into the background.
Yet we'll always be intimately connected—you are forever part of me.
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Happy birthday to you, my beautiful C-section scar.
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Thank you for making my daughter's birth possible.
Happy birthday, my sweet girl.
I love you so much (far more than the scar, I promise).
