@Lustig Andrei,
Sorry about the it's Andy.
I didn't say Tolstoy was wrong. I said I hope he was.
Misreading my remark is a quantum leap from a stray apostrophe, a typo as you will see from all the "its" I have used in my series of posts on A2K, when it comes to matters worth drawing attention to.
In fact, your drawing attention to such a triviality is worth drawing attention to.
Tolstoy opined that the more people who know about a confinement the more difficult the birth would likely be.
But he was writing at a period when the medical profession had not learned how to "hush up" protests from the dumb metabolism. (see my previous post about the matter). And his experiences of such matters were concerned with a population which was somewhat backward. Which some might say is closer to the real thing. An evolutionist has no choice.
Maybe you have experienced a tensing in certain respects when on public view which doesn't occur in private. Perhaps Tolstoy did.
I don't think animals in nature have birthing difficulties.
The whole world waiting with baited breath must be a bit of a facing I should have thought. We should forget about it until the announcement and then ring them bells.
