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I don't have children and I'm not interested in having any, however I still enjoy reading about others' experiences. So I don't have a problem with the subject matter but the writing was just really boring. The writer tried very hard to make it interesting by making her descriptions very graphic. Just because something is true, it's not necessarily good or powerful writing. Just because someone experienced something difficult, it doesn't necessarily merit a feature article. I felt like I didn't learn anything new. I mean, come on, we all know that giving birth is very painful and that life is never the same after having a baby. It's wonderful if she figured something out about her ego but the magnitude of her insight is such that it could have been discussed with her friend or put in her journal. I don't want to put her down, but when I finished reading, I just thought: "so what". Reiterating the facts of life in explicit ways just won't make an interesting story in a magazine. To me it still sounds like she is serving her ego by telling.
