I like to look at the flipside. Surely since I had the intense crying all the time style of baby... the next should be pure bliss. Right? Rainbows and lolipops? Maybe?

I hate those kinds of comments. For me it was the scoffing at my desire to have a natural birth. That hurt even more when I ended up in a bad way after a cascade of intervention and complications. I felt like people wanted me to suffer. Like they were all waiting for me to be discharged so they could say "I knew you couldn't do it". Of course they weren't, but it wasn't easy at the time.