The amazing hug.

I read about this incredible reviving hug and thought about the moment after each of my children was born and the midwives put them on my chest so that I could hold them close at the end of their journey into the world. My mom had always told me that when I would hold them that I would forget about everything else – even all that pain – and just be so happy in that moment. She was right. There is definitely power in those hugs from a mother to a child.