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When I told my parents we were expecting, I had to ask my mother to share her birth stories with me. It was only then that I realized what a bad mama-jama she was. I have three sisters, and my mother gave birth pain-medicine free with all of us. My younger sister was nearly a month overdue and they induced my mother with pitocin. Still, no pain meds. Why didn't I know this ahead of time? And why does my mother have no idea how she or her siblings were born?
I know this isn't a new question, but it just baffles me that birthing is like some weird dirty secret that we don't talk about as a society. It's an experience that lots of women will go through at some point in their life, yet we make no effort to teach our girls about it, other than a *maybe* a clinical one or two day discussion in health class.
I shared my frustration with my mother who responded that she just didn't think it was an appropriate thing to talk about. Just weird.
I know this isn't a new question, but it just baffles me that birthing is like some weird dirty secret that we don't talk about as a society. It's an experience that lots of women will go through at some point in their life, yet we make no effort to teach our girls about it, other than a *maybe* a clinical one or two day discussion in health class.
I shared my frustration with my mother who responded that she just didn't think it was an appropriate thing to talk about. Just weird.