Ok, so I'm under no illusion that birthing my baby will be easy, painless, in fact anything other than a pretty gruelling experience. But why do (in my experience usually my colleagues in their 50s) so many women feel the need to give me a patronising smirk and shrug when I tell them that I'm going into the birth with a positive frame of mind?? What do they want me to do?? Throw myself to the floor screaming, telling them how petrified I am and beg them to rescue me from the fate worse than death?!
It's even worse when they prowl in packs in the staffroom and give each other knowing patronising smirks. I wouldn't mind but all of my friends who have given birth in the last couple of years have actually been really positive, even those who have ended up with long labours and emergency sections etc. It's not as if I've told them that I plan to give birth whilst dancing and singing in a field with no access to pain relief or anything. Grrrrrrrr!
Sorry, rant over :)