“Picture how the vaginal canal squeezes the water out of a baby’s lungs – it’s the shock of this squeezing and the sudden cold air that makes the baby cry out and take their first breath!” She inhaled so I inhaled, too. “The trauma itself prepares them for the next phase, life on Earth.”

“Picture how the vaginal canal squeezes the water out of a baby’s lungs – it’s the shock of this squeezing and the sudden cold air that makes the baby cry out and take their first breath!” She inhaled so I inhaled, too. “The trauma itself prepares them for the next phase, life on Earth.”

— Miranda July