It was work and I was grateful

"I didn’t get any spiritual uplift from the natural pain. It was work I had to do, and I was grateful I was able to do it. It just comes with the job. I did notice thought that I felt a lot better after the birth without the epidural than with one. I was more alert and awake after a natural birth than a drugged one. No new mom gets sleep, but I felt like I was recovering for weeks after my first"*

I just had to share this experience on this blog because I thought it represented such a down to earth view of labor and what it meant to one person. Labor does not have to be a major spiritual/other world experience. It can simply be hard work, but worth it.

I feel like this is a very refreshing view to take on life in general. Sometimes things are just hard work, but we do them for a reason. It reminds me of the idea that we should be grateful to have a sink full of dishes because it means we have food. Sometimes just the fact that we have to work at something is a blessing.

*This is quoted from a post from Robyn Warner.