[My mother’s] feeling is, we were made to do this work, and it’s not easy, and it’s inherently painful…. Pain and pleasure are a continuum, and without the pain, there would not be the pleasure.  We wouldn’t have a place to slide around, and that this is just an intense experience of pain.  It’s also an intense experience of pleasure, and joy and hope…. I would say that the pain is part of the glory, or the tremendous mystery of life.  And that if anything, it’s kind of a privilege to stand so close to an incredible miracle.  And that there’s pain involved because it’s such a tremendous event, that it’s like,… it’s like living in a different dimension briefly.  And that it’s a painful process, because it’s like two worlds colliding.  ~Simone Taylor, quoted in Blessed Events by Pamela Edith Klassen