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I'm surprised I haven't seen women on the show hate being parents...

posted 11 years ago by ejs8882000
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Or maybe I'm wrong since I haven't seen all of the episodes. But I have seen the show quite a lot, and the thing I've noticed the most is that every episode I've seen the woman (and even the father) talk about how even after giving birth, they are "very shocked at having a baby, but very happy otherwise". And they talk about how they are "actually glad to be parents" and "how much they love their babies" and etc.. etc...

But I'm kind of surprised that there has been no episode (as far as I can see) where a woman had absolutely NO plans to have a child, has absolute ZERO interest in being a mother and/or maybe to some extent doesn't even like children. Just once it would have been kind of refreshing (and also realistic) if they had a woman on an episode talk about how after she unexpectedly gave birth and then talk about how angry she is that she now has a kid she didn't even want. And that she wishes she could go back in time and find out she was pregnant in the first few weeks so she could have an abortion. But now she has a baby she has completely no interest in having, and she's upset that either birth control had failed or she (and her partner) weren't as careful as they could have been. And now they are miserable because they have to be parents, or they just gave them up for adoption. Although I guess that type of episode would be controversial and maybe they do have women that have gone through that; but the producers of the show won't allow that because it would upset viewers. So they deliberately only broadcast the "good outcomes" of episodes. (but like I said, maybe I'm wrong since I haven't seen it all, so does anyone know any episodes like that?)

It just seems kind of unrealistic that EVERY SINGLE episode of the show always has the parents showing how "happy" and "excited" they are afterwards that they have a baby despite being surprised that it happened anyway. I mean just imagine you are one of many people who have no interest being a parent (and maybe you don't even like kids), then one day you wake up and BOOM you just gave birth... Now what?

[–] DCompton86 11 years ago

It would be interesting to see a few parents who aren't so happy about the fact, I do agree with you there. I would like to point out most of the episodes focus around a woman who thinks she cannot get pregnant for one reason or another and has had to deal with that even though she may have wanted to be a mother...so a surprise baby seems like a miracle to them.

"It's better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you aren't."

[–] missworld458 11 years ago

I saw an episode where the mother had the suprise baby in the ER, and didnt want to see her, she immediately decided that she would give the baby up for adoption because she wasnt interested in being a mother. About 24 hours later she asked to see the baby, and she said as soon as she saw her, she "had to have her."
Maybe even if you dont plan on/want to be a parent, once you see the baby, something inside you melts...

[–] bische_ 10 years ago

For sure it would happen a lot where the baby gets adopted out and it is not a welcome surprise at all, but these people are unlikely to appear on TV selling their story - that's the difference!