You can defend yourself without calling other people fat fucks. Asshole.

Because everything is risky. Driving is risky. Walking is risky. Living a normal life is risky. Your argument is that this seems riskier than other things, not just you would never do anything risky, because I bet if you were pregnant you wouldn't just lie in bed for 9 months doing nothing because moving presents more…

There's no problem. People are just really invested in being all up inside a pregnant lady's cooch.

See actually we're still not sure when fetuses can feel pain. We keep trying to figure it out in part because of all those super fun "fetal pain" bills that are being used to make abortion illegal far earlier than the limits of Roe. I read something recently that said we're starting to question whether a fetus can…

Exactly. Lift, eat, exercise. Do what you like with your body. You'd think most people would commend her for getting a healthy dose of exercise—pregnant or not. As a mostly-casual (ie. noncompetitive) lifter, I agree with Lee-Ann's assessment about weightlifting and feeling powerful. I'm not a very big person; 5'7.5"…

I mean, that's not really a response to what I said, but okay!

I never said you can't or shouldn't have empathy. I would never tell a woman who miscarried that she shouldn't care because it wasn't even a person yet so no biggie. That would make me an insensitive asshole. I'm saying that I, personally, me, do not have empathy for a a fetus. My empathy rests with the living…

First, I'm really sorry for your mom.

That's cool.

Ugh, that's awful! The poor woman. This reads like a horror story.

Drinking while pregnant =/= exercising while pregnant.

Considering peasant women and slaves used to toil for like a million hours a day up in the field and still manage to have kids who got to do the same thing, pretty sure the weight lifting is okay.

I admit I didn't react real well when I saw this picture - difference is, I'm not a medical person, I don't know this woman. So I kept my damn opinion to myself.

That baby will pop out all ripped and be like, "hella, look at these guns" and it will be a superior day for it

I'm pregnant and got a flu shot at work recently. Every single one of my co-workers asked if it was okay for me to get one, as if I hadn't done any research at all and just inject things into my arm willy nilly.

I am 39 weeks pregnant and I have continued my normal fitness routine, including Body Pump classes 2x a week. I listen to my body and stop and/or lower weights when necessary. Pregnancy is not illness!! People love to concern troll me too, but in the end I haven't gained too much weight, my baby is huge and healthy,…

I hope she doesn't feel too badly about it. I hope she realizes that a lot of Americans are seriously lacking education about very basic biological functions and the vast majority of her detractors are talking out of their asses. I was lucky enough to get comprehensive sex ed, but had to take an actual parenting class…

When pregnant people gorge themselves, people condone that it's "OK to give in to cravings" and "eat for two." (I totally condoned it in my own pregnancy, for the record...heh.) But when someone does something like this, the internet turns into Dr. McJudgerson, OBGYN.

What is so typically American is that everyone will be all up in your business about what you eat, and what activities you engage in while you are pregnant. But these same "concerned" folks dont seem to fight or vote for actual causes that would help pregnant women like universal daycare and preschool, or mandated…

Sad to say, but yeah, once you're pregnant you're assumed to have the brains and decision-making capability of an infant. I had to get a permission slip from my doctor to get my teeth cleaned at my dentist when I was pregnant. Just a cleaning. No X-rays, no anaesthesia, nothing. I suppose I should have asked the…