I wrote:

but some students screamed with genuine horror at seeing a woman actually give birth. One of them threw up! Granted, this wouldn't happen in some other cultures where birth is treated as just another fact of life, but where I live most people don't see such things, and some do not want to!

Frankly, I'm not even sure that I want to see my own wife give birth. Fortunately, given the fact that I faint when my own blood is drawn (yup, eyeballs rolling to the back of my head) she may forbid me from being within a hundred feet of her when she gives birth. ;-)

We are considering some kind of video-conferencing system. :-o Or just drugging me. ;-)

Robert (RK)

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