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~ My family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy fulfilled me with so much love ~ ~ Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain -- your life will never be the same ~ ~ There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good ~ ~ I am absolutely over the moon. The baby's due next June. But I haven't found out the sex of the child and doubt I will. I want it to be a surprise. on news of her pregnancy ~ ~ If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters ~ ~ Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid ~ ~ Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid ~ ~ Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy ~ ~ In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin.... When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact. ~ ~ Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. ~ ~ Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can be. Let me tell you, it is. It's brutal sometimes! But, if I did it, ANYONE can do it. I mean, I always knew I was meant to do something really BIG in life, and now I know that this was it. Screw winning an Academy Award someday ... I GAVE BIRTH ~ ~ When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape ~ ~ In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly ~ ~ Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted ~ ~ If you perceive the pregnancy early, then you don't get beat up too badly if you're wrong, and you make a fortune if you're right ~ ~ In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision ~ ~ We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children ~ ~ The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer ~ ~ Pregnancy is barbaric. ‚Ķ The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in front of the mirror at eight months are all gut reactions, not to be dismissed as cultural habits. ... Three thousand years ago women giving birth 'naturally' had no need to pretend that pregnancy was a real trip, some mystical orgasm ~ ~ We really won't know if she is pregnant until about the last month of her pregnancy ~ ~ The pregnancy is just evidence of sex, ... What they really don't want their parents to know is that they are sexually active.î ~ ~ I would like to devote my future energies to doing something about the problem of teen pregnancy ~ ~ Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability ~ ~ Diet plays in my opinion an important role during pregnancy ~ ~ Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines ~ ~ If the Plan B battle reveals anything, it's that the opponents' real agenda is not to prevent unintended pregnancy and abortion. If that were so, they would be for all forms of contraception. They'd be for better sex education. They'd be for more family-planning counseling. The problem is the right doesn't want greater access to birth control, ... and their opposition to Plan B proves it ~ ~ This clearly shows that through the mid-'90s we have a dramatic drop in the teen pregnancy rate ... and that's very important. But we have to put that in the context of where we were to begin with, which is that we have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates of all industrialized countries ~ ~ What is frequently lost in translation is that our pregnancy rates are anywhere from 40 to 60% higher than other areas of the world ~ ~ An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy ~ ~ It is very important that we have access to safe, legal pregnancy termination services, whether it is emergency contraceptives right after the assault or an abortion service ~ |
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