Friday, June 8

Should I feel guilty?

I haven't thrown up. I don't have stretch marks. My ankles are the same size they've always been (although I think my feet are bigger?). It seems like every pregnant or previously pregnant woman I know has a laundry list of complaints that have somehow passed me by. Should I feel guilty? Or should I be worried that I'll pay for all of this good luck at some point in the not too distant future?

I can't help but make a correlation between how women feel during their pregnancies and how their actual births turn out. The same women who tell me how miserable they were when pregnant then go on to relate their delivery room horror stories. When I tell them that I'm planning a medication-free birth in my own bedroom, they either laugh at me (and not in a nice way) or get angry. Am I as clueless as they think or am I justified in believing that since my experience has been so different from theirs so far that it will continue to be?

Time will tell . . . 27 days and counting.

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