Just thinking about it more after reading your last post Lulu, maybe she's been told all the 'horror stories' too and she just can't take it anymore and this is her response to that? To give her the benefit of the doubt as well it might be that she's actually **** scared of giving birth - maybe the pg wasn't planned so she may not be mentally prepared for it, maybe her mum or other women in her family have had trouble and it's not ended well and that's playing on her mind, or maybe she's had a loss and just wants to get through the pg and not think about the birth kwim? I guess it's something that for all intents and purposes seems really sad and the outcome somewhat predictable but it could really not be like that at all.