Finding pleasure in pain of birth

From: The Independent - London | Date: July 5, 1996| Author: GLENDA COOPER/BRIGID McCONVILLE | Copyright information

There are three kinds of women when it comes to giving birth: they are Romantic Princesses, Hero Women and plain Functional Women, says Dr Marianne Morris, a health psychologist, who also claims that attitudes to giving birth can determine the psychological response afterwards.

Where Romantic Princesses seek to make the birth as perfect as possible, Hero Women see it as an "adventure" and Functionals just want it all to be over as soon as possible.

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