"Yet, in all my years of doing home births, I never once took a woman to the hospital because of unmanageable pain. Not once. And time after time I had the honor and privilege of looking into the astonished faces of first-time moms as I laid slippery newborns in their arms. They gazed back at me, awed by the intensity of this thing called childbirth, this rite of passage they had just completed. Having made that journey, having tapped depths of strength they never knew they possessed, they crossed a line and never looked back."
More from the book, Baby Catcher
(Yes, I'm a little obsessed with this book recently...everyone needs to buy it and pass it on!!)
I'm going to have to type out that line again, this time in caps:
I NEVER ONCE TOOK A WOMAN TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF UNMANAGEABLE PAIN.
That's because, *There's a secret in our societey, and its not that childbirth is painful, its that women are strong.*
