Carried: Birth (Damage to the Mother)

It runs as a mother's dread of her own inadequacy, a frightened, guilty, grief-tinged resistance to taking on the child, rooted in a deep sense of not having what the task requires. Underneath is her own poor reception as a child: she was not well-met, and she does not know how to give past a foundation she was never handed. What it asks for is to be helped to hold what she was never held enough to hold alone.

I don't think I can do this; I wasn't given what it takes, and now it's being asked of me.

Jochebed, who could not keep the child she feared she could not protect, and set him on the water rather than watch what she had no power to prevent. The form implies a task: to be given the holding she was not given, so she can pass it on.