What is the worst feeling ever?

[ShadowHM]

Just after posting this I watched a woman giving birth on The Learning Channel.  This forgetting mechanism must truly come into play.  If it didn't, I would find it hard to believe a woman would want a second child after going through the first.  I both salute and envy all women who choose to give birth.
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The following is my opinion only. However, I have given birth to four children. :rolleyes:

Childbirth is hard work - an athletic endeavour. But you do have months to train for it. And you should (one would hope) have a suitable coach already available for the job.* Any job worth doing is worth doing right - and that means preparation, both physical and mental. It also means making sure that you choose your place of childbirth and your support staff with care, so that should things go awry, you will have confidence in your coach and staff to tell you the right things to do. At the end of the process, you have something more valuable than anything else you have ever worked for. :wub:


There are many reasons for choosing to have only one child. But the 'pain of childbirth' is not one of them.

Your salutes and envy should spring from another reason than the mere exertion of birthing a baby. After all, the really hard job - that of raising them to adulthood - has only just begun. Just ask any of the many other parents in this forum. B)




*(I know that there are many women who must go through childbirth without the benefit of the presence of a spouse to aid in this process. They do have my sympathy. But few of us are really without a suitable friend to play coach, should the father be unavailable.)