"The pain of labor is a side effect of a normal process, and its nothing to fear. We have other examples of pain in our lives that are not fearful, for example: the pain associated with phyiscial exertion, mountain climbing, athletics, and we accept those.
And this is the same kind of thing. Pain doesn't have to rule the labor."
Click here to watch Penny Simkin talk about how pain is different than suffering,
