not that

I can respond positively to news of others' pregnancies...

I can smile at ultrasound images...

I can congratulate people on their healthy births...

I can even look at newborn pictures all day long without wanting to cry too much...

But I cannot read birth stories.  Nope.  Tried.  Got through about four paragraphs, then had to stop.  I can take pregnancies that will probably be happy and baby pictures that definitely are happy, but I cannot take birth stories.  Labor has always been a painful, scary thing for me even when I go in with the expectation of a happy outcome.  With the knowledge that only heartbreak awaits...No.  I can't look at it too closely.  I just can't.