People seem to think the usual boundaries don’t apply
So I’m pregnant. Yes, again. That is my answer to what I’ve discovered is the most common response to this news: “You’re pregnant again?” It’s true, I do already have two toddlers and, as David Sedaris writes in his wonderful essay about families, Now We Are Five, “One or two [children] seemed reasonable, but anything beyond that struck me as outrageous.” I actually agree with this, and it seems many others do – even more strongly. “You’re having another? Why would you do that?” one person demanded to know when I told her.
As well as my two children, I’ve had the odd abortion and miscarriage, so this is not my first time on the pregnancy rodeo. And what I’ve learned in my, shall we say, full-spectrum experience is that people say weird and thoughtless things. We all do, all the time: I’ve probably said 10 strange things since breakfast, myself.
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