The first mother ever

Please read the following in jest:
I am absolutely exhausted today. At 2 o'clock this morning, my dear litlle baby decided she had had enough sleep and proceeded to wake up every hour on the hour. After I had put back her dummy like four times, I think I must have lied down on the couch in her room and that is exactlly where I woke up this morning.

This whole having a baby thing has made me think of Eve, who had the very first baby ever: Cain. With all the resources we have available today, all these books that teach us about every little thing about babies: colic, bathing them , how long they can stay awake, when to put them on solids, what games to play to develop their eye sight etc, etc. We have all the quipment in the world: we have canvass cots, prams, bottles, formula milk...and we have our mothers and grandmothers who raised their own children, passing down their knowledge. We have atempted to make raising babies as effortless as possible and I still sometimes feel like I don't know what I am doing.

Can you imagine what it must have been like for Eve? Who's never even seen baby? She didn't have any books to read, or grandmothers to ask for advice. I wonder if God gave her a quick seminar. She must have been was quite the lady. In Genesis 4:1 it says she said: "With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man"

...And that is all she said. If I were the first woman ever it would have said: "Oh Lord help me, I have brought forth this baby. Why is it crying so much? When I am I ever going to sleep again?"

When I asked my husband what he thought about eve's motherhood, he said: "Well, Cain ended up killing Abel, so Eve must have batteled a little bit to be the fisrt mother ever." If she were to write a childcare book, it must have been called: "How to keep your kids from killing each other!"

Whatever the case may be, Eve was the mother of all human kind: I take my hat off to you Eve!