AnnSofiNovelist on Nostr: Why do people keep trying to make the argument that it's a burden to carry and birth ...

Why do people keep trying to make the argument that it's a burden to carry and birth a child? It's a privilage and amazing experience that no man can ever experience.

Currently hearing a debate where someone is arguing that being drafted and having babies are supposedly equal, but it's not. Women can join the military, but men can never birth a child. Women can choose to have kids or not, but men don't have a choice if the govenment decides to draft them.

I believe that one of the ways to increase the birthrates is to stop spreading the lie that it's bad to be pregnant and birth babies and being moms.
I looked into pregnancy planners when we first started trying for babies, and saw that they all covered how women experience morning sickness at least during the first trimester, while some have it the entire pregnancy, HOWEVER, when looking into it at least 30%, if not 50%, never experience morning sickness. And it's similar with all the other symptomes. This is why I made my own pregnancy planner after Heaven's standard where Jesus blood paid for everything, so there is no longer any reason to experience any of it. Sure, sometimes we need to fight it off, but negative pregnancy symptoms shouldn't be the most talked about, and certaintly not talked about as inevitable facts of pregnancy, as that's simply not true.

How about we focus more on the positives of pregnancy?
At least 9 months or naturally paused periods, up to at least 6 months more if breastfeeding.
Getting to feel the creation of another human being move around inside us. Flutters, flips, and eventually kicks and punches. Sure they might hurt but they are also spetacular! They're a sign of life, plus, we always get to have a companion.
Getting to see how our bodies were created to create more life, how they change and how the belly grows, how the bladder gets pressure, then released and then get pressed again through the trimesters.
Getting amazing hair that barely sheds at all (though all that hair that stuck around ends up falling out once the baby is out which can be disconcerning but it just goes back to the normal amount of hairs)
Not to mention the absolutely mindblowing and heart flooding experience of getting to see your very own little baby develop and learn and smile at you and giggle at you and crawl over to you and want to be close to you, and all the things we get to experience with the baby once it's been born!

Babies are amazing. Pregnancy is great and wonderful, and having our own babies are totally different than babysitting someone else's babies. Fur babies are nowhere near the real deal. Humans are amazing, and creating and caring for them are totally worth getting celebrated, and not mocked or cursed or spoken about as a burden. It is a privelage.