Unfortunately in our culture birth has a high “shock” factor, and often we hear about the negativity: the pain, the endurance, the tears, the stitches. And for most of us (this was myself included), we generally resign ourself to quite an unpleasant experience - until the baby arrives of course.
It wasn’t until half way through my pregnancy, that for the very first time, I had a woman tell me that she absolutely loved her labour, this was fucking ground breaking!! I had never heard a positive word uttered about birthing until this moment, and that was the catalyst that sent me on a journey to have a positive, and even pleasurable, birth experience with my child.