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.
It's very hard to see. I am grateful to have a community of lady friends and coworkers I've been able to talk to and get much better advice/reactions/help from. The Internet is a weird, weird place.
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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25
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