Being pregnant is like wearing a big ” I had sex” slogan across your t-shirt. No one likes to imagine people they know actually having sex, especially friends, parents, siblings etc. We all know it happens and that neither we, nor the sprogs of our friends got there by wind pollination. As much as we might like to cling to this idea when thinking of our own parents.
Pregnancy is the public display to all that you had sex. The fact that everyone is trying to ignore and not think about at the social braai or family gathering is now out on display. You are announcing in no uncertain terms for the world to see that you had sex. Of course we know the non pregnant are having sex too, it is just easier to pretend they are not. You don’t have to try hard to block that part out, but wait until you have a bump – suddenly they all KNOW.
Telling your parents you are pregnant , no matter if the reaction is great excitement or rather more negative, still the unspoken conversation is there. “Mom, Dad, I had sex.” They do not want to think about this as your parents, nor do you as their child actually admit it, no matter how long or short you might have been with your partner. There are things kids and parents prefer not to discuss and sex is usually one of them.
But there is nothing quite like kids asking how the baby got in and will get out to highlight the fact that pregnancy draws attention to how the baby got in their in the first place. And you can sugar coat cute
egg and seed stories all you like but at some point they are going to understand the process of the 2 actually coming together (ooh look I made a clever pun)
I remember chatting to friends about kids discovering the birds and bees and most kids first getting the idea in terms of procreation, the realization that it is also just for fun comes later. As one friends daughter, who asked if she could watch the next time they were going to make a baby, illustrates.
How ironic that the one time in your life you wear the sex badge also is a sign of how in the future the amount you are going to be having said sex is about to decrease rapidly. Morning sickness, tiredness of the first trimester, expanding belly that needs to be planned around later and then of course the exhaustion of being a parent of a new baby that nothing can prepare you for, means you are going to be having less sex.
That said the 2nd trimester has not been that bad. So on that note of more admission of sex other than my expanding middle I leave you.
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