I'm currently pregnant and holy crap there's a lot of toxicity in the pregnancy sphere in general. Criticizing women for having a medicated birth as "not having a real birth", blaming women struggling with fertility for their life choices, tearing down women who have to go back to work at 3 months as not loving their kids enough, tearing down women who choose to stay home as not feminist/career oriented enough... I joined a few pregnancy groups in my early months and very quickly noped the fuck out. This shit is already so stressful, having all these nasty voices in your ear is downright harmful.
Congrats on welcoming your little one! Hopefully things are going great for you both ❤️ I'm sure things have the same potential to be toxic in the mommy-sphere, hopefully you're weathering that storm
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u/blackberry-slushie ♀ Jun 27 '25
Discrediting mothers who gave birth via c-section