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I planned to have an empowering childbirth, but what I found was that it was the least empowered I had felt in my entire life. I had a severe uterine hemmorhage which gave me a much harder recovery(can explain more). I remember thinking, “what the hell just happened to me?” Instead of feeling empowered I felt in desperate need of people for the most basic things. But it was upon reflection back that I realized that maybe I was viewing empowerment all wrong. Perhaps real empowerment is not actually independently taking care of everything yourself. Perhaps it’s the basic human need of each other that we often forget and are only reminded of its power when we’re taken down to almost nothing. In the process of my labor ( 25 hrs,back labor, much like yours!) the nurses became my heroes, I reconciled with a close girl friend as I called her on the phone to coach me through a difficult part (she and I were very close but sadly grew apart through religious and political differences), and found that maybe I was able to nice to my mother again as she gave me the greatest gift in the world one night: sleep. Whew, I did it, something semi-close to a paragraph!