The true story of Mary giving birth to Jesus. (Poor Mary, she was on her own.)

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/21/1353395/-Silent-F-cking-Night?detail=emailclassic

Do you think Mary suffered it all in stoic silence?  If Mary was like most women she likely was cursing the Male who got her in that condition, and that position, especially since He had it in His power to spare her the entire ordeal.  Jesus was born of awoman, that was the whole idea of God made Man, wasn't it?  And a real woman would have been screaming her head off, cursing Father, Son and Holy Ghost for good measure.

So here we have Mary, who had jogged around the countryside on a donkey, not getting a decent night's sleep in weeks; having labored mightily to bring forth the Child with no assistance from a knowledgeable woman; bedded down in stable, lying on poking, scratchy straw amongst the oxen and cows and ducks and sheep and all the effluvia which comes from livestock — the poor girl just needs some rest.  I know that after I gave birth, the last thing I wanted was a parade of visitors; all I wanted was some goddamned sleep.

But poor Mary — what happened to her?  Why, a veritable convention broke out!  First there were the animals already in the barn — "the cattle are lowing, the poor Baby wakes".

Then the shepherds arrived with their flocks — you don't think they left them out in the pastures unguarded, do you?  Those sheep were the only wealth they had, they wouldn't just leavethem there.