The Indignities of Pregnancy

I'm guessing that there are indignities of pregnancy that I don't even know about (and I'm not about to pick up a book to find out what they are). It does look extremely uncomfortable to have that huge weight cantilevered 10 inches ahead of you. And sitting must be really awful.

And the discomfort doesn't stop there... What about the fact that you have a human being living inside you? That's disturbing on so many levels. First of all, you're not even supposed to have microscopic worms living in your body... and you have a giant multi-organ being in there. If it wasn't so common, I would be quite certain that Karin was from outer space. I will protect her from the villagers, if necessary.

Plus, there is the whole animal kingdom aspect of it. For anyone that is not religious (of the true-believer variety), this really proves that we are animals. I mean, either you believe that God created man and established the whole messy reproductive process from scratch... or you have to believe that we evolved from animals and part of our DNA just could not come up with a better way to do things. So we stuck with it. I mean we walk upright... We speak and smile and wink and shave. We can invent things like tiny blow-torch lighters, and jet airplanes, and silly-putty. But the reproductive system really has not changed much over the past few million years. Sexual practices seem to change quite readily, but the rest of the biological part of reproduction and birth seems to be quite similar to, say, that of a wildebeest.

Today Karin had to take a diabetes test. She was forced to drink 50 grams of glucose, sit for a grueling hour of ensuing nausea, and was finally rewarded with a blood-draw. That's actually what started me thinking about the indignities that Karin is currently forced to endure.

I'd like to extend an extra-special welcome to those in Abu Dhabi and in Třešť (town in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic) who I see are now reading this blog.

I'm going to embed the poll in new posts for a couple of days so it doesn't get lost in the bowels of past-blog-posts-lost right away. If you haven't voted, please do so now (for a brief background story please read the Dec 16 post below):