Really, Darwin?
Ok, the cat’s out of the bag. I’m knocked up. To put it one way. To put it another way, who the hell thought this would be a good idea?? Really. Oh, yeah. Me. Bleh.
So I’ve been thinking in my current state of eat-and-puke, how does Darwinism fit into all this child bearing shiz? If we are really here to propagate the race, wouldn’t years of evolution made the process a little easier? I know its survival of the fittest, but I don’t see how re-visiting every meal has anything to do with fit. I feel this is survival of the weakest, and I haven’t even pushed the thing out yet.
Maybe it’s important for our race to undergo baby drama just so it can learn that whales have a much harder life than we ever will…two years in the womb? Yowzaah. But then there are rabbits, who get to enjoy the pregnancy process for just a little under a month and have eight hundred offspring at a time.
I guess its all part of the great mystery of evolution. The pukies, the cravings, the uncotrolable urge to run in front of a moving train. Its all part of the great circle of life. Meh, I’ll just get my next progeny from Africa. Now that’s survival.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:06 am
I guess it is to mentally prepare you for motherhood because it starts you off in the mind set that you now have little to no control of this thing and you will be required to sacrifice a lot of yourself. Maybe morning sickness is a small way of seeing if you can hack it, or maybe it is a way to counteract postpartum depression because you will think “wow this is hard but pregnancy was way worse.” Hope you start to feel better soon!
April 11th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
…my sister was sick all nine months of both pregnancies, and now she changes diapers and wipes snot all day. Don’t get your hopes up.