We have great power to change and influence many things, both in ourselves and in this world, and it is good to want to improve and to work toward positive changes. But for those things that we cannot change, we still have the power to see beauty, even in the ugly and tragic.
No Birth Plan Ever Survives Contact with the Enemy
As soon as I learned what an episiotomy was, I knew I didn't want one. For the uninitiated, an episiotomy is a procedure done to help make room for a baby during delivery, by making an incision in the perineum, the tissue between the vagina and the anus. Yeah, that's why I didn't want one. In fact, when I filled out the intake form on my childbirth class, I wrote it down as one of my biggest fears. But, in the immortal words of Mick Jagger, you can’t always get what you want.