Pregnancy is not an illness...... but.....

[joanne34]

So, apparently, regarding work, Preganancy is not an illness !

So why do you get a Maternity card from almost day one, giving you free prescriptions throughout and after because, youre always ill !!

Honestly, I've had prescriptions for Migraines, prescriptions for antibiotics, presciptions for thrush, prescriptions for antacids.... oh the joy of not being ill in pregnancy

[weegiemum]

pregnancy is not an illness - but it sure made me ill!

[lal123]

Nope = pregnancy is definitely NOT an illness, looking after babies/children makes me ill!!!

[TulipsInTheRain]

pregnancy is a massive parasitic growth inside your abdomen that drains your energy, makes you vomit, impedes your mobility and randomly beats you up from the inside...... if that's not a flaming illness then god help me if i ever get sick with a 'real' illness

[thedollshouse]

I couldn't agree more!

[PavlovtheCat]

it is most certainly NOT an illness. Although I was vomiting all day every day throughout my pregnancy, and had to take medication daily to avoid me going into hospital on a drip, i was not ill at all. (Does that mean, people in hospital, they are not ill either? ).

[PavlovtheCat]

tulips so true!

[LynetteScavo]

LOL @ TulipsInTheRain!

[weegiemum]

I was allowed to be "ill" once I had given birth even though the symptoms were exactly the same as they had been in pregnancy, when they were a "side-effect".

[Cicatrice]

I have never felt so wretched as I did throughout my pregnancy, and I still have SPD trouble now. Maybe that's imaginary pain?

I have no sympathy for DH now when he is ill. Even when he is genuinely ill, I think well, I was ill for 38 weeks but that didn't count apparently. Hmph.

[joanne34]

Yeh infact the only people that have ever said ' to me ' that pregnancy is not an illness, have either been ' Male Docters ' or 'Women with no children '

[weegiemum]

joanne34 - you are right! Or those vile lucky women who soared through pregnancy with no sickness, tiredness, spd, indigestion, who bloomed from 13-39 weeks and didn't have varicose veins, piles, urine infections, thrush, dry skin, water retention, (or my personal favourite, pregnancy induced kidney stones owwwwch) etc etc etc.

I have met a couple of them and they made me irrationally angry when it wasn't their fault (though I do believe it was their choice to be smug about it).

[heth1980]

pregnancy may not be an illness but if you had all the symptoms and weren't pregnant you'd think you were dying........and so would your doctor!

[Cicatrice]

heth1989 - very true. I would have thought that I had some hideous life sapping disease, if I hadn't known I was expecting.

It was like having flu/a hangover/and being kicked in the bum by a goat every day.

[Hulababy]

Not, not an illness. The being sick all day every day for 4 or so months, perfectly fine and normal!

If I had to go back and do just the sickness bt again, but with no pregnancy linked to - urgh! At no iother time in your life would you think that was okay.

[woodyandbuzz]

Tulips - you are so right!

I felt as though I was dying when I was pg. Vomited severely for entire pg, liver stopped working. Pregnancy might not be an illness in itself, but it can cause some very serious illnesses and people totally underestimate this.

[joanne34]

heth1980... soooo true !

I'm still nauseaus at 34 weeks, plus im going to give up on the iron tablets, I think they've given me an ulcer !

Yes that is my butt hole

[StealthPolarBear]

I have been known to snap "I'm pregnant, not ill" at people, usually when they're telling me I can't do that, won't be able to do this, or simply exclaiming their surprise at me being out of the house post 30 weeks