wednesday word

Wednesday word: precipitous

There is only one medically interesting thing about me and that is that I had precipitous labor, which was unpleasant. Nothing like going from fine to insanely massive amounts of pain in thirty minutes.

So few fiction books talk about labor honestly. The first book I read where it wasn’t He paced the hall, listening to his wife’s cries and unable to come to her aid. Then the nurse opened the door and there was his baby. was The Breakwater House by Pascale Quiviger. I understand somewhat why books don’t go to the labor place: men don’t want that, child-free women don’t want that. Still, the longer piece I’m working on talks about birth. Let’s narrow the prospective readership even further!