tell me baby, what’s your story?
27 Jan
Being in and out of the hospital and doctor’s surgery recently has seen one question come up time and time again – are you pregnant? No nurse, no doctor, no nurse, no doctor, I am not pregnant, nor am I planning to be, but yes, if I did accidentally get pregnant – it would not be a big deal.
Reactions to my response from the healthcare professionals have been a little awkward to say the least. They look askance that it would not be a planned baby. And if it was accidental, that surely I couldn’t be happy about it.
The only come back I seem to be able to muster is that i’m 31; it has to happen at some point.
(I don’t mention that my other favourite evidence that I am ready for child is that I can look after 2 cats. Even if one of them has now officially become a heifer. That is not my fault though; I didn’t introduce her to cheese, she sniffed it out herself).
I don’t know at what point you are meant to start planning to have a baby, rather than say, getting accidentally pregnant without really wanting it. The healthcare professionals made me feel rather weird for wanting to let nature take its course. Surely like anything – if you worry about it – then it’s more likely to not happen?
I guess an underlying point of this rant is that I also feel our so called health professionals push women into shoving their bodies full of chemicals all too easily. I have tried most of them, and all of them make my natural occurring, happy body do the weirdest things. Things I do not like it doing. Like being crazy. No drugs = no crazy. Win, win for everyone.
Yes, contraception is essential for young women who really would not like the responsibility of a child foisted upon them through a little accident. But for an adult like me, I’d like to be able to make my own choices about what I put in and what happens to my body.
I just don’t get why that is so difficult for people to understand. Is this just me though? Do you think this this should be planned? Do you feel forced into conforming to this?










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