VITA MUTARI - the literal translation from Latin to English is "Life Transformation." That is the closest thing I could think of the feeling of labor/birth... what you are feeling isn't pain, it's life transformation. Is it dramatic? You bet! I think it should be!

In this remark, Soderblom reframes the sensations of labor and birth through a deliberately elevated, quasi-ritual language (“VITA MUTARI”), shifting emphasis from suffering to metamorphosis. By naming the experience “life transformation,” she offers a cognitive and emotional reorientation: what is commonly labeled pain becomes evidence of profound change—physically, psychologically, and relationally (the emergence of a parent as well as a child). The insistence that it is “dramatic” and “should be” validates intensity rather than minimizing it, suggesting that birth’s extremity is meaningful and even appropriate to the magnitude of what is occurring.