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Re: Why the pain?
After my last post I thought that I had nothing more to add to this Ode to Pain. But i do have one final observation to make - concerning self birthing.
I told you how my daughter was initated into adulthood by birthing her baby herself, without leaning on the crutch of drugs. But the fact is that there was one final crutch she knew she could lean on. If she failed to birth the baby for any reason, and it got stuck, the whole lodge of scuience stood ready to back her up and deal with the emergency. That thought not only reinforced my profound respect for science, but also made me think of all our ancestral mothers, down through the ages, who never had that reassurance - and I found a lump rise in my throat.
Countless women died in labor in the past. Every girl knew that. So in every birth, they were forced to stare death in the face. None ever bragged about what they went through and no medal was pinned on their chest. But I say to each man - we are all the sons of heroines!
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