Welcome to a new episode of my podcast the Nigerian immigrant. Today I'm going to be sharing my labour and delivery story with you. Feel free to pass on if this isn't for you, but stories like this helped me through my journey to getting mentally prepared for the day. In fact, I wish I listened to stories like this earlier than when I started. 

For me, the biggest burden of being a woman, outside of the obvious problems with gender inequality is child birth. You hear terrible stories about child birth and you're traumatised. So many questions run through your mind, will you die, will your body survive it, will your relationship still thrive after the showcase of such raw animal instinct? In relationships you might be able to be manage to be cute when doing poos and farts. But you can't be cute when there's a human head coming out of your vagina. There's nothing cute about that!

It is an extremely humbling experience. 

Our bodies are so incredible. It's powers unparalleled. What a miracle child birth is and it happens every few minutes around the world.

It's sad when a woman hates her body after this experience and it's sad when your significant other thinks less of your bodies changes because of this. If anything I see myself and my body in an amazing light, my confidence in myself and my abilities has doubled ever since and I have a new appreciation for the gift of life, motherhood and a supportive partner.

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