This is supposed to be light hearted and I realise I am very pregnant and exceedingly grumpy - but if one more health professional refers to someone else 'delivering' my baby I am going to snap! I've had a couple already and I most certainly delivered them myself! No real midwife involvement with either- and even if there had been- I would still consider that I had been the one doing the delivering! And while we're at it- what kind of archaic term is confinement???!!! Forms are full of it!! In my mind it goes along with the idea of women being unclean after childbirth- an idea I thought we'd gotten rid of at least a few decades ago in this country. Maybe they are silly things to get hot under the collar about - but can't help thinking they are indicative of the way childbirth is still considered by many- as a passive activity on the woman's part. There- I feel better now . . .