this short story covers a lot for the amount of pages it has but it’s neither it’s her d not too much. 
it points out flaws in the system, remained the reader that actions have consequences and that education should be taken seriously especially if it’s in regards of the humans body and it’s functions.

it is mostly a description of a birth, how it came to that moment and the comparison between the new mother and the baby’s  father and the new mothers own parents and their relationship and her growing up with and in that.

it’s also very mich a pointed and important story, showing clearly how undereducated especially men are,  when it comes to reproduction and pregnancies, let alone birth or taking care of children especially newborns.

it always astonished me to learn that especially in the USA it seems that the entire educational system believes that one part of the reproductive system does not need to understand how it actually works. as if males are too busy to learn how human bodies function.

how can it be that at todays time men still don’t understand that peridots are not controllable? that pregnancies are not something a woman can just wish away, oe that having unprotected sex can lead to pregnancies no matter how much both parties wish it to be nothing but fun?

it baffles me but i think that makes stories like this one -short and to the point but also not sugarcoating anything- written by authors that every  gender reads are important.

maybe it will teach even just one person something or at least make them curious. 
let’s hope?

so go on. 
read this.

and if you’re a parent?
for the love of any future generation, teach your kids about bodies and how a female and a male body are different, how it all works and that periods are normal and are  uncontrollable but nothing to be ashamed or hotties of.
 it’s not hard to do!