Main message

• The poem details the relationship between the speaker and her daughter. The speaker refers to the birth of her daughter and a confrontation between the two of them years later. 
• Conflict is between mother and daughter- birth of her daughter and then as a teenager. Conflict within the poet herself.

  This celebrate the strength and personality of her daughter, suggests pain and suffering of the mother during childbirth, shows that the connection between mother and child will never fade and shows that regardless of the love and affection felt for a child there will be confrontation and problems as children grow up and want independence