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[apocalypsos]

I said I was sick, to which my uncle asked me if I were pregnant, to which my mother said it would be cool if I was.

"Cool." Her word, not mine.

*points at icon*

Not that I don't want to be pregnant, because I'd really, really like to be, but come on. Getting there's half the fun, and that's the part of the fun I'm NOT HAVING. *sigh*

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[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I've heard rumors that pregnancy and sex might be related. But they're only rumors.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Seriously. They might want to wait until I actually, you know, get a guy before asking that, because now I'm just all bitter I'm not getting laid.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Maybe they think you're getting all sorts of nookie in car back seats all over town.

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

If you're going to be pregnant, might as well get as much excellent sex out of it as possible. Hopefully with someone really hot, so your baby will end up good-looking and also get to have amazing sex someday.

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

When I was, like, 16 and had never even had a boyfriend, my mom once responded to my complaints about cramps with "Well, it'll be better after you have a baby."

*blink* "So you're saying I should get pregnant to help my cramps???"

"Well, it would help. Maybe you could be a surrogate or something...."

I swear, I had the only mother who was trying to talk me into being a pregnant unmarried teenager. *headdesk* I had to veto any further discussion of the idea.

As conversations go, it was pretty surreal.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Also, is there any reason to think that's even true? I've never heard that before. And my cramps got worlds of better after a few years without getting pregnant.

Maybe she just meant that after you've pushed out a cabbage patch doll, pain as trivial as cramps no longer registers?

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

My mother apparently had horrible cramps until she had her first child. After delivery she never had a menstrual cramp ever again. *shrug*

You know, it wasn't until I was talking with friends years later that I realized that isn't universally true.

[florahart]

Many women do experience some sort of change, for better or worse, on returning to a monthly cycle after a pregnancy. All sorts of other things change, too--their metabolism, for instance; some women suddenly become able to lose weight readily on the same diet that before they never would, or vice versa. It's not especially surprising; the sheer amount of biochemical stuff that goes on in a pregnant body, it'd be surprising if there weren't any long-term effects.

Far as I know, there aren't too many studies of this, partly because they would be long-term studies and those are hard and partly because hey, it's a women's health topic, but I think most gynecologists are aware of how many women come in and go, god, I never had trouble with (cramps/bloating/migraines/heavy bleeding/whatever) until after I had the baby, and now... or vice versa.

For me it was that I never really had cramps between kids. That is yes, cramps as a teenager, no, not, after kid one, yes, again, after kid two.

[octavia-b.livejournal.com]

And of course there's the whole, 'other things get worse' side of things. As in, I'd never had a migraine in my life until my first pregnancy and now, five years later I still regularly get them.

I hear you on the 'women's health topic' too. 'It's just hormones, nothing to be done about it'. GAH!

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

*holds up his "Accidentally celibate since 1981" sign*

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

You can do that accidentally? *boggles* ; )

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

In the "it just kinda happened!" sense, not as in the "She spilled something on her skirt and my belt mysteriously opened up and I almost fell on top of her except I managed to catch my balance at the very last second!" sense.

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

*laughing* Yeah, kind of like the explanation for the excuse of "I didn't mean to sleep with your significant other! It was an accident!" *grin*

[andraste]

Who do they think you're going to get pregnant to? The Holy Ghost?

This reminds me of a few conversations I've had with doctors when my reproductive system has been playing up in not-fun ways.

Doctor: You could be pregnant ...

Me: Um, no. I really couldn't.

Doctor: Are you sure?

Me: Barring a repeat of the immaculate conception or alien impregnation? I am not pregnant.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

Been there. Done that. Sometimes think it would be easier to go out and have sex just so the doctors would stop disbelieving me.

[andraste]

Been there. Done that. Sometimes think it would be easier to go out and have sex just so the doctors would stop disbelieving me.

One doctor asked me three times, and obviously thought I was lying. Dude, virgins in their twenties (and older) are not mythical creatures!