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I am embarrassed to admit that until recently I had no clue how awful it is to suffer through pregnancy. Somehow we have been indoctrinated,
via Bollywood & other popular media including frankly our family adults, with this romanticized pro-motherhood propaganda according to >
via Bollywood & other popular media including frankly our family adults, with this romanticized pro-motherhood propaganda according to >
> which a pregnant women only has to suffer some early nausea, then 9 months of glowing skin, & ultimately some birth pangs. Perhaps we fear that without this propaganda many women would just opt out; & frankly many do opt for pregnancy out of family/peer/societal pressure. >
>In reality, the list of all sorts of pangs, discomfort, aches that a woman has to endure during 9 months of pregnancy is incredibly long & it only grows with every month. It makes sense considering you literally have a parasite feeding off you for 9 months growing inch-by-inch >
> & competing for space. This “embryo” pushes your lungs, so you have to live through intense shortness-of-breath during the last 6 months, at the same time it is also pushing your bladder, so you’ve got to rush to the bathroom literally every half-an-hour (which means you can >
> barely get any sleep). Add to this morning sickness, intense fatigue, backaches, headaches, swelling legs & feet, insomnia, stiff fingers in the morning, & massive load of depression along with all sorts of fear. >
> It’s a miracle that a pregnant woman can even appear to function normally. I was just googling about discomfort during the 3rd trimester & there are literally 9 kinds of listed pain/aches that most women experience just during these last 3 months. >
> And all this is during a normal pregnancy. Complications OTOH can make things impossibly tough for the woman both physically & mentally. No wonder ancient civilizations considered fertile women goddesses, & in polytheist societies most goddesses, like Ishtar, Heba, Inana, >
> Anahita, Allat, Hera, Isis, Ma’at, Sekhmet, Nut, Athena, Aphrodite, Diana, Venus, Sita have been the ones closer to common folks (if not clergy & political elites). Also not surprising that the word used for a merciful God in Islam Rehman/Rahim is derived from the Semitic >
> root for womb rhm’. What is worst though is that these pregnant women in our society (both traditional eastern & hypercapitalist western) are expected to go through their normal chores like they aren’t nourishing an infant inside their womb. >
> When instead we ought to treat mothers like queens, like goddesses. The least that everyone around a pregnant woman, most of all the husband, must do is ensure that she is well rested, well taken care of, well fed, properly massaged, and above all, that she is truly happy & >
> relaxed. Despite all this women have to struggle for their rights. What a fucking tragedy! I do believe & hope that as women gain more control of our resources, in near future the process of pregnancy will be completely outsourced to automated lab wombs. >
> That might well be necessary to truly end patriarchy. (Breastfeeding was outsourced to impoverished women/slaves until a few decades ago.) Anyways, my most sincere gratitude to all mothers out there. What you do is the most incredible, miraculous, tough-as-nails job out there.
