The best thing about a crisis is the appreciation that comes along with the aftermath. To further elaborate, I shall draw upon my personal life experience of giving birth. At the time, I was living in Austin and found myself immersed in a group of peers that insisted having a natural childbirth was the way to go. I planned for months, typed out an elaborate birth plan, read all the Ina May Gaskin books I could get my hands on and thought I was good to go. That is until I started having contractions. Two days later, I successfully gave birth to an ...