In Defense of the pregnancy segments (spoilers)

Based on the way posters are rankings their favorite segments, I can tell who has never experienced pregnancy and childbirth.

When you are pregnant, particularly when you are showing to others, it can bring all kinds of energies your way, from the positivity of wellwishers, to scorns from personality disorder suffers, anti-socials, and animosity from breeder-haters that think the world is overpopulated (so why are you having a child?), or wistfulness from those unable to yet have the children they've been trying for. People project onto you their own feelings about pregnancy and about children that have nothing to do with you personally, but they still send that energy, good or bad, your way. You have to trust that strangers, acquaintances and loved ones mean you no harm because you are at a huge, physical disadvantage, (even moreso now, than in your normal state), to protect yourself from those that decide to impose their will upon you. It is a very vulnerable time for any woman in this physical state.

Other aspects that can contribute to the difficulties of this time, is the fact that you are growing and supporting a life inside of you, but you cannot actually see what's exactly happening whenever you want - not on a monthly, weekly or daily basis. I only had 3 ultrasounds during the entire 9 month pregnancy. Maybe 3 sounds like a lot or normal, but going up to 3 months without an ultrasound, it felt like an eternity of not knowing for sure everything was alright and the baby was progressing as was expected.

And that anxious feeling of vulnerability, knowing that you can't see what exactly is happening inside of you or exactly what your baby looks like at any given moment, you are very aware of the fact that something very terrible and unexpected could happen at any moment. You could go from ecstatic to utter despair about this unknown, unseen being you love with all of your heart, at the drop of a hat. It is an extremely vulnerable, unpredictable time.

Because I've been through pregnancy and childbirth, I felt the anxiety of the "Unknown" relayed in these segments and I found theses segments terrifying and relatable, moreso maybe than a man who has never experienced the truly vulnerable state of pregnancy and childbirth. So if some people don't appreciate the horror of these segments (St Patrick's Day & Mother's Day), maybe others with pregnancy experience will.