It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.