The difference, though, between the birth of a child and nearly all other medical events, is that giving birth is a natural process that a woman’s body is built for. Unlike a disease, a broken bone, cancer, or a heart attack, becoming pregnant and giving birth is something every healthy woman’s body aims to achieve on a monthly basis. Entire organs and systems within her body exist to build and nurture new life. Pregnancy and childbirth aren’t maladies. Rather, these incredible experiences are the healthiest possible expression of a woman’s liveliness.

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