Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural no interventions. Wish me luck.

On the one hand we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand we can open all our own jars.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest more amazing than self-defense and as courageous as either one.

At the moment of childbirth every woman has the same aura of isolation as though she were abandoned alone.