Pregnanthood (if such word exists)

Making babies is easy but bringing up babies is hard... How nice it is to be indulged in romantic love making sessions with scented candles burning, cool air conditioner blowing, nice and comfortable bed to sleep and the dim lighting just nice to let you fall asleep right after sex.

The sperms then did their job by swimming across the large ocean, in search of their soul mate (the ovum) and be joined together, never to be separated again. Once together, they produce and reproduce a lot of cells to form another human being and come out a new baby.

Let's just forget first about bringing up a baby after he or she is born. Even in the pregnancy period, things have not been easy. Having to cope with morning, afternoon and evening sickness (who says sickness happens only in the morning), the pregnant mother has to be strong to go through the tiredness, the exhaustion of her body due to the hormonal changes as well as bodily changes to accommodate the new baby inside the womb.

How lucky it is for the rich ones who can afford to stay at home, relax themselves and to have the privilege of the help from the servants to prepare everything. Tough it is for those who have to go out to work as if the exhaustion from the pregnancy is not enough to wear them down. As if child bearing is not tiring enough, the expectant mother have to go through series of check ups, queuing up at the local clinics, taking injections, taking supplements as well as having their blood drawn for blood testing and so on. The waiting period itself is so tiring even to those who sit there waiting.

Not only is pregnancy not easy for the mom, the dad has to play his part too (besides, he is also taking part in the fun and pleasure during sex). To have to accompany the wife to the clinic, to do the house chores, to try to make the wife enlightened during her downs (because of hormonal change) and not to forget a little bit of scoldings here and there by the exhausted wife. Blessed are those with work which he can arrange himselves, without having to follow any office hour. Blessed are those dad to be who do not have deadlines for their work, for they can arrange to complete their work at their own sweet time. But still, no matter how easy the work is, physical and mental exhaustion is still something unavoidable.

Although it is a wonderful experience to have a child, the process even from the beginning (except sex) is not an easy one. Now, before we do something that might hurt our family, should we twice and try to understand how hard it is for our parents to bring us up even when we were several weeks old, inside the womb...