I’m watching a birth show on Discovery Health – very typical for me. I watch a lot of births on TV. I think it’s helping me come to terms with my fear of labor, to understand the process and accept it – embrace it for what it is.

Today one of the women giving birth was just screaming. I think she was having back labor. This was in a birth center, and she was doing it non-medicated. And when the baby came out she started crying, saying, “My baby, my baby, I love you so much.”

And I immediately started crying. I still am crying. What a beautiful little baby. What struck me most is that she was in horrible, horrible pain, but as soon as that baby came out nothing else mattered one little bit, she’d do it all again for him.

Like I said, I’ve watched a lot of births on TV the last many many months. And I have never once cried.