martha
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If I don't care, will she just go away?
I find it hard to judge anyone's reasons for not wanting to procreate, no matter how shallow the reason might seem.
Hey hey, shout out to ladies exercising their reproductive freedoms!
I just wish men could get pregnant and had to face all that judgment.
I just wish men could get pregnant and had to face all that judgment. Hahaha
The 'Doting Daddy Brain'
A man in hot pursuit of a mate doesn't even remotely resemble a devoted, doting daddy. But that's what his future holds. When his mate becomes pregnant, she'll emit pheromones that will waft into his nostrils, stimulating his brain to make more of a hormone called prolactin. Her pheromones will also cause his testosterone production to drop by 30 percent.
These hormonal changes make him more likely to help with the baby. They also change his perceptual circuitry, increasing his ability to hear a baby cry, something many men can't do very well before their wives are pregnant.
And a word to the wise for all the young mothers who are reluctant to let your husbands hold and care for your newborn. The more hands-on care a father gives his infant, the more his brain aligns with the role of fatherhood. So, hand over the baby.
I appreciate your sensitivity to the image pressures she may feel under, but I really think your sympathies are misplaced here. She was speaking publically as a prominent female personal trainer, someone many women would perceive as an inspiration and role model for women's fitness. What kind of message does it therefore send when she portrays pregnancy, a normal healthy function of the female body, as a kiss-your-hawtness-goodbye ordeal to be dreaded and--if you really care about your bod, like her--avoided? (And for that matter, what message might her future adopted daughter, should she have one, take from that?)It isn't easy at all for all women to stay fit after having a baby, everyone's body and experience is different so how can anyone judge just from their own experience? She had a previous weight struggle too, if you've never had that you can't really out yourself in the same position.
You don't have babies just because you can.
She was speaking publically as a prominent female personal trainer, someone many women would perceive as an inspiration and role model for women's fitness. What kind of message does it therefore send when she portrays pregnancy, a normal healthy function of the female body, as a kiss-your-hawtness-goodbye ordeal to be dreaded and--if you really care about your bod, like her--avoided? (And for that matter, what message might her future adopted daughter, should she have one, take from that?)
Vain....sure, but I still don't see the big deal. I plan on adopting because I just don't want to go through a pregnancy and birth when there are plenty of babies that already need families. What does that make me? Selfish and lazy?
Fuck all of you. I had TWO dreams about having kids in the past week. In the first one, my friend brought my son back from day care and I had forgotten that I had a kid. In the second one, the kid was about six months old, I didn't know his name, and was about to change his diaper for the first time (others had done it before).
Don't make me have babies. Won't somebody think of the children?
I've had pregnancy dreams too. Haven't gotten pregnant yet It's like dreaming of death. It's not symbolic of death itself, but generally new beginnings.
Any healthy woman of childbearing age must also have a reason for not getting pregnant, why is her reason or my reason any better or worse than anyone else's?
Ah yes, but we were all also given free will.