Why is Your Stomach now Public Domain
Apr 04 '00
As soon as you put on your first maternity shirt, expect it. Total strangers will rush up to you, simply to touch your burgeoning belly. Why is this? I admit, I can't have children so maybe I am misunderstanding this. Perhaps if I were pregnant, it wouldn't bother me.
Nah. It would still bother me.
I don't understand why some people view your pregnancy as a valid reason to touch you without asking. My friends and family members who have been pregnant have offered to let me touch their stomachs, an offer I gladly take them up on. But to do so without asking seems rude. And to do so to total strangers without asking seems not only rude but weird.
I also don't understand the need for women to discuss their intimate details with pregnant strangers in the elevators. The stories seem to be in one of two veins. The first is how they gave birth within 30 minutes of labor or how they thought their labor was indigestion or how easy and simple their pregnancy was. Instead of waylaying fears, it seems to be more of a competition.
The same competition holds true for the other type of stories. These involve the 36 hours of back labor only to have a c-section or how they had a 4th degree tear or how their doctor butchered them. Is this some survival story to be telling a woman who had another 4 months to worry about it?
I'm sorry, but these women seem a little strange to me. Of course, I realize that as your friend, it will be a year or so before you join the group. Perhaps I feel left out? Perhaps I feel some envy or jealousy that I will never go through the experience of childbirth? Or perhaps your stomach should not be public ground and the competition on how hard or easy your labor and delivery was should be kept from pregnant women?
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Member: Lisa Ryan
Location: Louisville, KY
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Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, moved on, reviewed it all. Made 7 cents.
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