I Am Afraid of Giving Birth
I really want to focus on the baby. But birth is so damn distracting. It's just looming there, at the end of pregnancy, like this massive Mount Doom with Sauron's fiery eye flicking vigilantly back and forth above. I am definitely Frodo in my birth story, with the wide, terrified eyes.
Kate Fridkis, Contributor
Author of Growing Eden, blogger at Eat the Damn Cake