Birth is pretty traumatic for babies to begin with.

You start off on this dark, warm room. Floating in a little bubble of fluid.

Then all of a sudden the bubble is gone. You’re squeezing headfirst through a hole smaller in size than a CD. It’s bright, it’s cold, it’s dry, and it’s loud. You have to start breathing and then you can’t stop or you die, but nobody tells you that right away. Someone slaps your butt and someone else cuts your blood tube to mom.

No wonder they come out screaming.

And that’s a typical, uncomplicated birth. Let’s not talk about suction cups or forceps or cesareans.