Things that bug me...

I will try to keep this short as there are many, many, many things that drive me up a wall.

Today, my issue is this:

FBuser: is going to be induced tomorrow!! YAY!!
LoserSkank1: OMG I WAS INDUCED AND IT SUCKED SO BAD.
LoserSkank2: inducing makes your labor longer and more painful
LoserSkank3: Like, this one time...
(btw, these people obviously aren't really named "loserskank" nor are they losers or likely skanks, but for dramatic effect I'm naming them so)

You get the point. There's nothing NOTHING scarier than the unknown of giving birth. Having had given birth just 7 1/2 short months (OMG 7 1/2 months?!?!) ago, I can say this: It's not that bad. There's pain medication for a reason as well as many, many pain management techniques. Of course, it's quite possible that I just had a kick ass nursing team, but my labor rocked. And I suffered through it for close to 36 FREAKIN' HOURS. And I'm a total wimp. Seriously, you should see me stub my toe. Or smash my elbow on the bookshelf. Or when Amy runs into the back of my ankle with a shopping cart at Target.

Also, I have friends that have gone completely natural and swear it's not that bad. It's a matter of perspective. I went into labor thinking it was going to be horribly painful. Contractions suck. They do, but here's how I went into it: They only last a minute or so and you can survive anything for a minute.

I won't pretend to be an expert. After all, I've only done this once and my situation wasn't ideal (story later, it's in the works) BUT it's important to put a little enthusiasm and less fear into new mothers. It's bad enough that they know the basics about birth, so why scare them more?