I'll take the option with no pain, please.

Apparently week 25 is the third trimester, which I have to say really snuck up on me. And as much as this marks the home stretch (emphasis on stretch), it also marks a day of reckoning for me that is quickly approaching. So far I have been skipping along week to week in a very eastern mode of living-in-the-moment and put off any thought of how I’m going to get to know Betty on the outside. I have not read ahead in any book or let anyone talk to me about it, so I am pretty much in the same mind frame I began with, which is the mind frame I have always had about pregnancy. And that is that the whole idea is insane. Why someone would do this voluntarily is beyond my comprehension. I can’t escape the issue forever, obviously, but I hope no one will stop me from hoping for the doctor to offer me an option that I haven’t heard about yet where I get to go to sleep and wake up with a baby - without any kind of cutting, thank you very much. And frankly, why that has not already been made an option for women is testament to how screwed up health care has really gotten, if you ask me.