# Creeped out by being pregnant?  Is that normal?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creeped-out-by-being-pregnant-is-that-normal/319192>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 30, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creeped-out-by-being-pregnant-is-that-normal/319192 "2005-08-30T01:51:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creeped-out-by-being-pregnant-is-that-normal/319192/41 "2005-09-01T20:04:32Z")

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Ah **Cyros** …No darlin’ you are most certainly not the only one. I have been having a real difficult time emotionally with this pregnancy. I think I was bombarded by those “blow sunshine up your ass” (aptly put!!) women that you mentioned…That probably added to my guilt and feelings of, “Gee, what’s wrong with me? Why am I not loving this? I don’t hear harps playing damnit!!”…The bottom line is that everyone is different - and I should have known that I would be, since I don’t ususally respond the way everyone does anyway. I don’t like weddings that much. I don’t think all brides are beautiful. I don’t think all babies are cute for that matter…I think it’s perfectly natural that I would be kicking and screaming through my entire pregnancy now that I think of it!

I call my little one “the freeloader”…I’m sure I’m going to hell in an express hand basket for that as well… 😉

**Jessity** , just have your friend look at this thread. I’m sure it will make her see that there is nothing wrong with her at all. Plenty of women that feel the same way as she does.

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**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creeped-out-by-being-pregnant-is-that-normal/319192/42 "2005-09-01T21:18:01Z")

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> [@DMark](#):
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> My neighbor is pregnant - due in October. She has told us she intends to give birth to this baby, like she did with her other child, in water. Namely, their pool in the backyard.
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> We have a great view of their pool from our kitchen window.
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> I am SOOO dreading going to the kitchen to get a glass of water and casually looking out the window, only to see her giving birth in the pool next door.
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> Does this put me in the creeped out club?

How is that sterile?

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**Author:** ![Apricot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Apricot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apricot)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creeped-out-by-being-pregnant-is-that-normal/319192/43 "2005-09-01T21:45:22Z")

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It doesn’t have to be sterile, just clean.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creeped-out-by-being-pregnant-is-that-normal/319192/44 "2005-09-01T23:07:52Z")

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> [@Apricot](#):
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> It doesn’t have to be sterile, just clean.

Don’t care. Still not looking forward to that impending Kodak moment. Sometime this October.

Plus, correct me if I am wrong, but won’t I and half the neighborhood hear the mother during this blessed event?

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