Why do people hate pregnancy stories!?

Like all problematic or questionable stories, pregnancy stories (those whose main focus is the MC or someone close to them going through a pregnancy) aren’t bad per se. The problem is always how they’re executed.

Most of them treat pregnancy as some sort of drama source for the plot. The MC (always a female) gets pregnant by some dude of questionable intentions. And that’s just it. MC apparently doesn’t know how to take a pregnancy test (if it ever crosses her mind to take one) because it’s always a few days after the intercorse to those who have experience with pregnancy tests, you know what I’m talking about or way too late when she already has a bump :roll_eyes:

I mean I know that sometimes it’s possible to not realize you’re pregnant, but it’s still rare instances.

Anyways, MC is pregnant, she sometimes goes to the hospital to run some tests (most times of which being because something is wrong with her pregnancy) but that’s it. She eats and drinks almost whatever she wants, and she just feels fat.

All this to say, that most of pregnancies on Episode aren’t planned (which, fine, I know it happens) but they’re not even portrayed realistically. A girl or woman goes through significant transformations during pregnancy which are never talked about here. What passes through Episode stories is the quirky side of expecting a baby (food craves, feeling heavy and fat, nausea, the baby kicks) when in reality it’s so much more.

It doesn’t help that at some point on in these stories the baby itself becomes an afterthought and it’s just about the bump :woman_shrugging:t3:

Anyways, personally I don’t like pregnancy stories that are just there to create drama and comedy. I’m at one point in my life where for me, pregnancy mostly means letting a new human come to life. And after that, there’s a lifetime to make sure that that human grows healthily into a happy and responsible adult.

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