"I said, if I could suffer for five years and get a PhD, how hard can pushing a baby out be? That's what I told myself," he says. "This is the most painful and dramatic thing in life and it's being minimized by the white males." He adds that his wife felt a lot of pressure to do natural childbirth; she did it all three times.
Talithia Williams thinks you should rigorously track your body's data. She and Steve Levitt trade birth stories and bemoan the state of STEM education.