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I believe that childbirth is just a natural occurance just like many other things and shouldn't be treated as if it's the greatest thing to ever happen because it's not.
It isn't that special. The reason no one tells women the truth about childbirth is because if they knew the truth, no half-way intelligent woman would want to go through with it. Doctors, mothers, older sisters, etc. never tell girls about how they will fart and pee all the time and usually have a thick discharge all during their pregnancy; or how they will likely develop hemorrhoids and varicose veins; or how they will likely end up gaining an enourmous amount of weight they will never lose or end up with stretch marks and a pouch stomach. They also don't tell them that women don't automatically love their babies at birth and it's not at all unusual for a woman to actually hate their babies and feel like smothering them.
I see it as special to the woman having the baby
Whether or not YOU want to see it, having a baby is a pivotal moment in someone's life. It changes your life COMPLETELY and for many women and men, creating a new human being that completely depends on you and whose fate rests solely in your hands changes the way you look at the world and often your value for life in general.
For many women, bringing in a new addition to their family is a cause for celebration, the same way many families celebrate the addition of new in-laws through weddings.
It's difficult to understand unless you have kids in the way that war is difficult to understand for someone whose never been in one. Explaining can never truly get the point across. Some people get it regardless and some just can't. This is one of those scenarios where if you don't get it, you won't unless you've been there... although I do wish women that have had babies would remember that when some of their friends (like me) aren't tripping out and jumping for joy.
To me, she just squeezed a baby out her hole, like billions of other women. I don't see it as an accomplishment. You don't exactly need a college degree to do that. However, my lack of understanding doesn't mean anything other than it's something I need to experience for myself before saying "It's not special"
Childbirth isn't that special. People just percieve it that way. It's really just like any other birth: it happens all the time. I agree with you.
I get what you are saying in a way. Over all I feel that child birth is not special. But I completely understand why it is special for the person who is giving birth to her child, and the people who are involved in the couples lives. When you have a child the birth of your child will be special to you.
giving birth is normal. we humans find it so remarkable however because we are that capable of thought that the idea of it being primitive ceases to exist. then again, creatures such as monkeys can appreciate life and children, like tarzan? (lol)
You probably don't think its so special because you want so much to be primal but face it, when your 3 your old niece or ne[hew tells you they had fun or thinks that your funny, your mind might change about that.
Don't get me started about hearing them cry when you leave, breaks my heart you heartless demon
I agree. Reproduction isn't a miracle. It's not special. Humans think they're the only creatures that breed, but anything that breathes can do it. I can understand for the mother, for the most part it's special for them (of course you have plenty of "mothers" who despise their offspring, so it's certainly not special for them either). But as someone who is doing everything she can to avoid reproduction, I just don't see it as such a miracle. It's nature. And it's not beautiful. My BFF was MISERABLE during her pregnancy. She loves her kid to death, but man she was just miserable, gassy, bedridden for the last few months, and she said it felt like her kid was breaking her insides, Twilight-style.