Nine months is not a long time. But to a pregnant woman on her first trimester, even a month could feel like an agonizing woe of forever. When a mother's baby is born, however, everything that happened before isn't going to matter. Months of barely getting out of bed because of persistent nausea and a thousand headaches will not count. Hours of exhausting, soul-splitting labor will become trivial, compared to seeing your baby for the first time.