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Hi listeners, I'm Nikki Boyer and I have a story I want to tell you.

A story of a seasoned nurse and many newborns she delivered.

So gather round and listen close.

When you work in the labor and delivery ward for as long as I have, everyone assumes you love babies.

I don't love babies. I like them enough.

They may be at one point I loved babies but it's the mothers who really ruined it for me.

The self-righteous, know-it-all new moms who 24 hours before walking onto my floor had never held a baby in their life.

But now with breasts full of milk and a bleeding uterus can confidently say,

all of us childless people just don't understand the bond between a baby and their mother.

That instant connection that forms.

It's so primal and unmistakable.

They can never describe it because they insist it's unknowable.

Unknowable until you do it yourself.

The God damn superiority they hold over you.

It's like the second they push out those lumps of gooey flesh they become part of another class of humans.

And it's them versus us, the mothers and the childless who can't possibly ever know real joy.

Oh sure, we may think we are happy but that's because we don't know better.

It's such antiquated BS.

And even the most liberal, progressive I am marched for women's rights feminists do it.

They may not say as much but it never fails.

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