::snort::

[marag]

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

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[dandelion_diva]

I absolutely loved being pregnant, especially since I was almost certain that I couldn't *get* pregnant.

*But* it didn't make me feel "more womanly". It made me feel good about my body, not because it was a woman's body but because it was my body and it was doing exactly what it should be.

Pregnancy was also annoying, achey, grumpy, nauseating, totally messed with my hormones for *years* and was very, very weird in many ways.

[marag]

Hell yeah on the annoying, achey, grumpy...Ugh.

And I definitely know what you mean about being certain I couldn't get pregnant!

[alikander]

I'm another of those insufferable people who loved it, even though I had some mild discomfort (nausea for 3 months) and some minor scares (incarcerated uterus, fainting in third trimester requiring one hospital night and one stitch in my lip). I confess that these items are, in relative terms, mere blips

[marag]

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to doing it while chasing a sproglet at the same time. Ugh.

Like minisinoo, I think I enjoyed the permission to get pissed off best :D

[sherron0]

I will honestly admit that one of the BEST thing about being pregnant was being treated as extra special.

[marag]

Heh. I did like having the excuse to get pissy at people. Although it was mostly not on purpose.

::coughs:: Like the time a male coworker interrupted me as I was on my way to the kitchen to get some food. I kept trying to tell him to wait and he wouldn't let me go, until I said, "Mark, if you do not let me get my lunch, I am going to GNAW YOUR ARM OFF."

And I (as I'm sure you realize) was not kidding. He let me go.

Later I explained to him that you never ever ever ever get between a pregnant woman and food. Ever.

[marag]

Hmm, I liked seeing her in the ultrasounds. Uh...and the kicks were fun for about a month or two.

That's all I can think of!

[sabra_n]

Never been pregnant, but my mom would be muttering something impolite right now about how nice is must be to have the nausea end after the first trimester.

-blue

[marag]

I had nausea in the first and third trimester. It was actually worse at the end than at the beginning. ::shrug::