Two 1 To be born is to suffer.
Birth is pain.
For the woman, as we all know, and for the child as we have forgotten. Now that we are finally aware of it, let us try to understand why. The nightmare of being born is not so much the pain as the fear. For the baby, the world is a terrifying place. It is the vastness, the enormity of the whole experience of being born which so terrifies this little traveller.