The P Word
Pain. There, I said it. This one little word is responsible for causing a lot of anguish in pregnant women. Whether you've had a straightforward pregnancy or not, you may have experienced some pain already, and we haven't even got to the main event yet! If there's one word that is synonymous with childbirth, it's pain. But what is pain exactly? The International Association for the Study of Pain defines it as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with act