I thought about that. I didn’t phrase it well.

It’s true that witnessing the pain of childbirth is likely to make anyone notice the negatives! But in non-comedic fiction, I think there’s often a concomitant awe, a sense of the circle of life and all that, as well as a bonding with the child, which this character doesn’t experience.

Why do you say “even after she witnesses one”? I’d have thought that one would be even more inclined to take this view after one had witnessed it.