to wonder why it's all so difficult??

[MissPenteuth]

By which I mainly mean pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. It's continuation of the species fgs, it should all be the most natural thing in the world. And yet for most women pregnancy is tiring and uncomfortable, sometimes even debilitating and dangerous to their health. Childbirth is bloody hard work, it f*cking hurts, and it leaves many women with long-term damage (physical and psychological, in some cases). Breastfeeding is supposed to be the most natural thing a mother can do for her baby, but women who find it easy seem to be the minority.

Why, WHY has nature made it all so hard for us? I don't understand it.

Difficult childbirth is due to the size of the brain that we humans have evolved. Also, babies seem to be getting larger which puts more of a strain on the body.

My great-grandmother had 13 kids and lived to a decent age, but I'm knackered after having only two

if you're a bible freak its punishment for eve eating the forbidden fruit

if you believe in evolution, women's hips have narrowed to allow us to run faster and up right, but compromising on our ability to carry and give birth to children. human beings are said to give birth to the least developed off spring. look at animals who give birth to babies who can already walk, eat un aided etc. for humans to give birth to babies at the same "stage" as most other mammals we would need to carry the babies longer and give birth to bigger babies but we have sacrificed the ability to do this for other things.

Yes, i know why, scientifically and evolutionarily speaking. Believe it or not I have a degree in genetics I just mean that it's unfair that it's all a bit shit, even though women have been doing it for years and years.

going to do the old cliche but if men had to do it you can guarantee that so much money will have been pumped into medical science that these problems would no longer be an issue. bed rest for the last 4 months, with a state paid cleaner cook and childminder, then an epidural will be fitted from 35 weeks and kept topped up just in case, then a c/s under general anaesthetic. epidural will be kept in for 6 weeks to aid recovery whilst man stays in bed and some one else looks after the new born.

(DH has man flu and doing the dying swan act, so hate men atm)