Do I look like I care?
It seems like lately, everyone has a pregnancy announcement. I know the reaction that everyone expects to get upon breaking the news is squeals of excitement and joy from all within earshot. Not me, I just feel the overwhelming urge to upchuck. I’m sorry (not really) that I don’t get excited and giddy when someone else announces that they too will be popping out a kid. So you can have sex and get pregnant. It’s not exactly the hardest thing to do (for most people). If it were, you would not have as many children running, screaming around restaurants.
I have no maternal instinct. None. Nadda. The thought of having something growing inside of me seriously wigs me out. It’s enough to make me run screaming from the room. I know I’m not alone in those thoughts. So, if you are expecting, goody for you. Just don’t expect me to start planning your baby shower. Seriously, if you never told me at all, that would suit me just fine because everytime someone spills the beans about their “condition”, the only thing that goes through my mind is “another one bites the dust.”
September 25, 2008 at 9:05 pm
That’s funny because every time I hear another one of my friends is pregnant, I think the same thing: “another one bites the dust”. I wish I had more than one childfree friend!
October 1, 2008 at 3:15 am
Mel, I think for people like you, Michelle at explosive Bombchelle and sdr, there is a growing number of people who REALLY don’t want kids. I think my 17 year old daughter will be joining your ranks once she reaches adulthood. And you know what? It’s OK. The having kids thing is expensive, can be stressful and is CLEARLY not for everybody-and to be honest, with some of the knucklehead parents I deal with in my work, there should be a whole lot more other people out there going child free as well. You have probably talked about it, but the one thing I feel sorry about for childless people in the workplace, is that one has co workers who are out because the kids are sick, or have picked up a virus from their kids, which leaves the childless folks in the office to pick up the slack.
October 7, 2008 at 10:06 am
Most of the people I’ve heard announce that they’re pregnant (or of course getting married – that’s another one. Hell, I’m married, but I didn’t go on an on about it for years to anyone who would listen. In fact, I didn’t tell anyone except those invited!), have had a mental response from me that is not “another one bites the dust”, but “stupid cow”. Harsh of me, I’m sure. When they return a number of months later complaining about it, telling me how hard it is, I wonder my original mental response was not so harsh after all.
Once I voiced the opinion that you mentioned here “So you can have sex and get pregnant. It’s not exactly the hardest thing to do”. Oh man did I regret it. I got so much bitchiness back, it was as though I had just spit-roasted and eaten a baby before their eyes!
October 15, 2008 at 1:52 am
“Another one bites the dust”
Spot on! I think the same thing, actually I feel disappointed when I see a smart girl getting pregnant.
My best friend is a bit on the fence right now, I hope her CF boyfriend will keep her on the right track!!!
December 21, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I am so happy I found this blog. I am 14 and I’ve known since 5th grade that I never want kids. I get so ****ing tired of people laughing when I share my feelings, or saying: “ah. We’ll see about that one. (chuckle)” and, “Oh, but you have plenty of time to change your mind. (wink)” Can I please just say that the idea of pushing a baby through my vagina makes me want to smash something? I want to announce to the world that having a baby hinders, sometimes destroys, a woman’s potential. Don’t we already have enough people in the world?
March 21, 2009 at 11:56 pm
I’m not sure why some (not all) childfree people demand – rightfully – that others respect their choice but aren’t always willing to do the same for others. I mean if you are so secure in your choice not to have children, why are you bothered by others having them (OK, I’m not talking about a seventeen-year-old welfare recipient popping out her third kid)? As an example, I’m a vegetarian, but it doesn’t bother me that most other people eat red meat. In my view one sign of an adult is realizing that different people have different wants or needs.
April 13, 2009 at 10:19 pm
If I get another e-mail with an ultrasound picture attached…I think I will upchuck!