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Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

Nothing was easy for us coming up. But we were rich in family.

Like most women, I thought it would be easy once I decided to start a family. I was surprised that Mother Nature kept poking me in the eye, saying, 'Nope, nope, nope.'

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.