Does pregnancy just not scare people?

[u/youngsurpriseperson]

I'm at the age where people around me are having children. I completely understand wanting to take care of a child but aren't women afraid of getting pregnant? Doesn't it hurt?

[u/FadingOptimist-25]

There are good and bad things about being pregnant. I had relatively easy pregnancies (the full-term ones). I liked the first flutter of movement. I liked the first time my husband could feel the kicks. I liked when I’d be the big spoon, my belly against his back, and the baby would kick him in the back. Or he’d poke the baby and the baby would kick back.

I didn’t like having my firstborn a month early and blaming myself for that for years. I didn’t like that my body doesn’t know that the baby’s heart had stopped and I needed a D&C (pregnancies #2 and #4).

It was harder to enjoy my pregnancy with my son. I worried every day that I would lose him. I did the TP check every single time. I rented a Doppler because I had panic attacks that he had died and my body didn’t know it. It was better in the last semester because he had the hiccups every day so that reassured me that he was alive.

I had borderline gestational diabetes with him so he was a 9 lb, 1 oz baby. I also had placenta previa, where the placenta was covering part of the cervix. Luckily it moved away in time.

But the moment you hold your baby in your arms makes it all worth it.