#Birth

A baby announcement is a public ceremony in which parents use their newborn as a shield to solicit self-validation from society. It floods social media and group chats under the guise of celebration, repaying congratulatory messages with a mere sticker in a one-way communication. While masquerading as a sanctuary of joy, it is in fact the trailer for the parenting hell that commences simultaneous with the congratulatory telegrams.

A baby shower is a social spectacle in which relatives and friends duel in gift-giving under the guise of celebrating an expectant mother. Mountains of wrapping paper and ribbons quietly erode attendees' wallets in this consumption-inducing festival. The hostess, surrounded by a sea of packages, becomes more invested in color-coding ribbons than contemplating impending parenthood. Countless toys and diapers overrun the room, leaving guests stunned by their own spending urges.

Childbirth is the ultimate human experiment, converting a mother’s body into a live production line and releasing a newborn prototype. Pain serves as a password, survival instinct as two-factor authentication, and the mother as an engineer rewriting forgotten control files by hand. In the moment where tears of joy collide with screams of agony, humanity witnesses a bizarre chemical reaction of love and suffering. Once completed, the mother is hailed as a hero while returning to everyday life marked only by a punishing, sleep-deprived handicap. Every mother emerges victorious from this extreme survival game, claiming the newborn’s smile as a trophy of colossal value.

Pregnancy is a high-risk, high-reward venture that integrates an unlisted stock called life into the investment portfolio of the body. An invisible manager named hormones operates around the clock, triggering unscheduled downtimes (morning sickness) and volatile price swings (mood fluctuations), tossing the investor into turmoil. Despite being dubbed the “stable phase,” it merely presents the illusion of rest before the next upheaval. The final event, childbirth, paradoxically abandons cost reduction and risk control, incurring excessive expenses (pain) while reclaiming shareholder rights (parental rights). For those attending the shareholders’ meeting of responsibility and affection, pregnancy becomes an unforgettable lifetime presentation.