son. "If you don't yell during labour you're a fool. I screamed, oh how I screamed. And that was just during the conception." * Labour stories are rarely light relief but there are some funny ones. Always intriguing is the mention of 'pleasure' during birth -- maybe a myth (some women swear it's not) or maybe an atypical reality. Like many women, though I have two children, labour is still foreign to me. I will never know its gritty -- or joyful -- reality, never bask in the knowledge that I endured countless hours of it. But I can assuredly tell you, suffering a surgical birth is something to be proud of too.