In a weird way I find them both creepy and fascinating. What if someone actually popped? Lol, sometimes I think I should have been a nurse with all the creepy things I find fascinating.
Joined: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:22 am Posts: 978 Location: NZ (from UK)
I'm not too freaked out as long as they are covered and I am not expected to feel the baby kicking.
What I find particularly gross is the hysterical reaction some people have to them, i.e. when people the mum to be barely knows (or sometime complete strangers!) rush up all excited and have a good grope without asking first. My friend found this so annoying when she was preggers. You wouldn't do this normally!? Why are pregnant bellies deemed public property?
I get weirded out when their bellies are so round it looks like the belly button is being pushed out.
My step father, despite being a father of 4 (or maybe its because of.....) has a full on, actual phobia of heavily pregnant women. He is terrified they are going to give birth (or explode as he put it) when he is around.
He once got trapped (car half buried in a drift) in a freak snow storm in the middle of the UK countryside at night. There was only one house in the immediate area and when he got to the door he was greeted by a heavily pregnant woman in a robe and night gown. She invited him inside to stay warm whilst they waited for help to arrive but on seeing her enormous belly he panicked, mumbled an excuse, dashed back to the car and decided that waiting it out in the freezing cold was the safer option....
Joined: Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:30 am Posts: 2161 Location: Narnia
They creep me out not just in the ways their bellies swell out, but in how the pregnancy changes them. I am totally grossed out by the little line they get in the middle of their stomachs, which is actually caused by the ab muscles pulling apart from stretching. I'm even more creeped out when their belly-buttons do that gross little thing where it pops out.
But I'm also creeped out by how some pregnant women become totally different people. Suddenly everything is about the baby. All the conversations and facebook posts become about the baby, the baby's growth, health, movements, doctor appointments for prenatal care, etc. etc. And that song, "Pregnant Women Are Smug" is so damn funny because it's true. The smugness about how special it is to become a mom, acting like there's no higher achievement in life.
And don't even get me started on after the baby is born. I was in Costco with my fiance today and I saw this woman with a huge stroller and three kids. The youngest one would not. Stop. Staring. At. Me. And I swear to the gods it never blinked. But anyway, the mothers themselves talk about nothing but "This one diaper was just a full load!" and (swear I'm not kidding on this one) a customer at work was telling one of my co-workers about how the kid sitting in their shopping cart "Likes doors."
It's as if the personality was slurped up by the fetus in-utero and shoved out along with the afterbirth...
Now, I get that having a baby is a big life change. It's a huge commitment and things are different after it is born because the parent's life is now focused on raising said baby. But goddamn, that doesn't mean the parents have to throw out everything about who they were.
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It doesn't usually bother me but now with social media it is very 'out there'. Most of my 'friends' have a need to post weekly updates of belly pics and ALL the details. Unfortunately they are also believers of posting naked belly pics which creeps me out. I dont like the stretch marks and the excess skin. It makes me uncomfortable to see. Most women though are all into the 'wearing your marks with pride' thing. I always see quotes in fb about how the stomach has 'nurtured' a life so the stretch marks are a sign of 'love' or some crap. What happened to when this was private stuff that no one shared??!!!!
Joined: Mon May 23, 2011 8:52 pm Posts: 3304 Location: Chicago, IL
The early preggo belly doesn't gross me out too much, but when it's the third trimester and it appears that the stomach appears in a room before the woman, I feel nauseated. It just looks so freaky. I can't even imagine the idea of being pregnant ... all the bodily changes, stretch marks, etc. Yuck.
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Lol my friend is pregnant and shes got a decent sized bump going. Not huge but enough that you know its a baby and not too many big macs.... And she feels the exact same way about preggos lol. We were out last week and were in the room with another preggo and she was like "ew i hate pregnant women its so gross" i gently reminded her shes pregnant... "i dont care, its still ew" LmAO she wasnt keeping her voice down either. It gave me a laugh
Joined: Sat May 01, 2010 3:37 pm Posts: 878 Location: In my own world
Last week I saw one whose varicose veins in her legs showed and it's gross!!! Still, I believe they should be afforded some privacy, no unauthorized belly rubbing, touching, etc. Then again, it's usually them who drop good taste and manners and forget that....
Joined: Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:30 am Posts: 2161 Location: Narnia
Force10 wrote:
Doesn't that mean the baby is done cooking? You know, like a turkey?
*ding* Who wants dark meat?
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Well, it is proven that people lose a few IQ points after becoming parents, so you might. Ot be far off about losing personality too.
Since the mother's brain activity drops by the third trimester, and then drops a little more from watching a bunch of kid shows all the time, it wouldn't surprise me if that's where the personality goes...
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