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Monday’s medical myth: women forget the pain of childbirth

By Monique Robinson — 2013

In an evolutionary sense, memory of pain serves an important purpose. Pain indicates a threat to our safety or our life, and human survival depends on us avoiding things that are going to kill us.

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What to Expect at Work When You’re Expecting

Legal protections against pregnancy discrimination are one thing. Actual feelings of security are another.

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Alanis Morissette on Pregnancy at 45, Childbirth, Postpartum Depression, and #Metoo

Her pregnancy at the age of 45 is why I sat in that villa talking to Alanis Morrisette. Every single one of us on this planet is the result of a successful pregnancy, but it’s still an experience you cannot explain until you’ve been through it.

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Latham Thomas Is a Woman on a Mission

She says attention needs to be paid to ending systemic racism throughout all of Black people’s lives—as well as in their safety in birth. And given Latham’s line of work, that last piece is a topic that’s particularly important to her.

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