These two are both anonymous poems i found in a baby massage book years ago, but i love them so much! Maybe will make some of you lot out there smile too....

For all parents of newborns

Baby, i lie and gaze on thee
All other things forgot-
In dreams the things of earth pass by
But awake i heed them not.
I hear thy soft breath come and go,
Thy breath so lately given,
And watch the blue unconscious eyes
Whose light is pure from heaven.

Anon c.1860

For foster parents or adoptive parents

Not flesh of my flesh
Nor bone of my bone
But still miraculously my own.
Never forget for a single minute
You didn't grow under my heart,
But in it.

Anon (no date given).

Aww - i'm tearing up, how soppy is that!

B