one thing I've always found peculiar about childbirth is how those TV shows make it seem like its the most gentle and beautiful thing, with violin music in the background.

I've seen several women in labor and giving birth, my sisters a few, and some african ladies in the local hospital here when I was filming for a charity. The blood, the screaming and the pain that these women were in! And we don't do epidurals here! The first time I almost feinted. And then this bloody purple thing comes out! At the time I couldn't call it beautiful at all. It looked downright traumatic!

But when all is done and cleaned up, its like it never happened... and they just want another! O.o And seeing them grow up is just bizarre. Amazing.

The local African women here are tough as nails though, hardly a flinch.

"The fool is not the one that does something foolish, but the one that does nothing at all."