When Creed from The Office reacts to a hearing about a water birth he remarks: "Must have been like low tide on Omaha Beach." he wasn't far off. Keeping with the World War II analogies, a regular birth is a lot like the result of a platoon of soldiers that has just been fired on at point blank range by a Tiger tank's 88mm canon. There's a lot of screaming, shouting of orders, and of course blood and rather nasty looking red chunks everywhere... and I do mean everywhere. It's all over the bed, on the underside of the bed, the floor, and up the walls, even six feet away. I didn't check the ceiling closely, but I imagine it was there too. I'm glad we agreed on a hospital birth. Before the fact, I'd imagined that I would have had difficulty with the birthing process... fainting and what not. I found that when I was in the midst of it, I really didn't have time to be anything else but clinical about the experience. By the way, thank you all ...
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