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marag

::snort::

May 16, 2008 18:19

So, sixbeforelunch posted a link to this news story about Angelina Jolie. And she excerpted the following bit:

“I'm very happy,” said the Oscar-winning actress. “Like most women, I love being pregnant.” She added that pregnancy makes “you feel like more like a woman than you've ever felt. You just feel like everything about your body is there for your baby.”So ( Read more... )

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miss_tress May 16 2008, 22:35:06 UTC

The whole idea of being pregnant kinda scares me even though I really want to have a baby. I've seen how miserable it's made my friends toward the end and then there's the fact that I'm a huge wussy when it comes to pain.

The way she's carrying on in that quote makes me think of how wonderful and fabulous tampon and douche commercials make being a woman look even though they're for some of the ickier parts of "womanhood".

marag May 16 2008, 22:57:26 UTC

::points:: Yes, exactly! I hate those commercials and I hate the "Oh, pregnancy is a happy magical experience that makes ponies fly out of my ass" attitude.

minim_calibre May 16 2008, 22:48:23 UTC

I said I hated it, but I'd have been fine with it had I not had the bedrest and the hypertension.

That brief span of time when I was not considered high-risk? That was pretty cool.

I have heard of people liking it.

They also tend to get knocked up easily the one time they forget to take their pill at just the right time, and are cheerful and perky during the entire newborn-toddler period.

I think they're secretly robots.

vespurrs May 16 2008, 22:52:15 UTC

Sorry, this comment just made my day. Cheerful people annoy me. :)

marag May 16 2008, 22:59:50 UTC

Stepford Mommies! Yes, I hate those happy perky women. "Oh, my child is just no trouble at all and we get plenty of sleep and it was so EASY to get pregnant." Ugh.

I probably wouldn't have minded pregnancy if not for the ovarian hyperstimulation. And the nausea. And the bloating. And the heartburn. And the bedrest. And the contractions. And the...

Um...never mind ;)

amilyn May 16 2008, 22:53:23 UTC

I was VERY VERY lucky. We got pregnant on our wedding night. no fuss, no interventions, just...*poof*. I felt good, never had nausea, had very few aches and worked till the very end of the pregnancy. I adored it and was fascinated and it was like having my own, in-body science experiment and I made myself a maternity jumper that was made of fabric that looked like a Holstein cow (see icon for drawing of same). It's very easy to adore being pregnant when the pregnancy is smooth and comfortable.

Also, my perspective on being pregnant was strongly impacted by the fact that both my husband and I were adopted as infants. Neither of our mothers had ever been pregnant. We have no stories in our lives of, "When I was pregnant with you..." or "I was in labor for..." I yearned for a real connection to the biological making of a family, for the chance to look like someone for what I saw as a magical event of being able to be part of EVERY stage of the process, not just to have appeared on the planet at age 3 or 4 days without any ( ... )

odditycollector May 16 2008, 23:26:06 UTC

Well, my brain has been trying to motivate me to get a long-term career already by giving me *nightmares* where I am pregnant, but I'm not sure where that fits!

marag May 16 2008, 23:53:36 UTC

::laughs:: I'm not sure either, but I'm amused :)

mtgat May 16 2008, 23:47:11 UTC

I had two remarkably healthy, low-stress experiences, a few scares with nothing actually wrong with me or them, no interventions needed to get or stay pregnant, reasonable labors, and babies I got to take home with me when I did. Barring the stretch marks and the slightly larger boobs, my body has recovered completely and could easily do it again a couple more times.

I loved being pregnant.

I STILL never ever ever ever want to do it again.

marag May 16 2008, 23:53:12 UTC

Even when it's easy, it's not EASY, I would think. It's incredibly tiring, even at the best of times, and just generally hard on the body.

mtgat May 17 2008, 00:00:44 UTC

Not to mention that whole "risk of death" thing even in the no-problems pregnancies.

amilyn May 18 2008, 18:35:55 UTC

THIS is very true. It is exhausting--even when it's also exhilariating. And, like mtgat, I never ever ever want to do it again and my husband and have taken EXTREME steps to make sure that it never ever ever happens again ( ... )

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