My husband and I took a six-week childbirth class about a month before
my due date. The instructor was unquestionably pro-drug-free labors.
So, in addition to going over all the anatomy charts and talking about
our fears and how we handle pain, etc., we also watched a ton of birth
movies. Tons and tons and tons. Her goal was to bore the fear out of us,
I think. In fact, by the end of the six weeks, we'd seen birth from all
angles -- you know, except the angle of actually experiencing it, which
by then felt a little beside the point.
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