Tag: childbirth

Not all wounds heal

By psychologistmimi on May 23, 2022 • ( 7 Comments )

Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem, Troilus and Criseyde, written in the 1380s contains the phrase: “As tyme hem hurt, a tyme doth hem cure.” Time heals all wounds! Or so say many over and over again. Certainly time helps women forget the excruciating pain of childbirth. You live it and […]

I remember feeling the pain

By psychologistmimi on September 29, 2020 • ( 7 Comments )

Ask a woman who has given birth about that childbirth pain. More often than not she will note it had been excruciating. However, more often than not, she will also not be able to tell you based on memory what it really felt like. The memory of how […]