Thank you for this. I wrote something in a similar vein, though not nearly as well written, for a lifestyle magazine in Ireland about 9 years ago. I ended up loosing my column over it because other women wrote in to complain. One in particular argued that childbirth “doesn’t have to be painful if you develop the right attitude to it and do the right breathing techniques” (I paraphrase but that was the gist of it). Obviously the reason it hurt so much was because I was doing it wrong. Writing about it in case other people shared my experience was even more unforgivable.