#pregnancy conditions

[ginontherox]

Vulnerable: Pregnancy Over 40 And Unusual Paranoia

It’s been a long time so let’s catch up! I hope you guys have been doing great in life while we were on hiatus. I have some awesome news to share. Usually I’m pretty private about these moments in my life however, I hope that by sharing my journey I will spread some encouragement and camaraderie. I am currently 31 weeks pregnant and literally two weeks away from fabulously turning 41 years of…

[pregtboy]

a boy that's been on my mind lately is one who doesn't seem to understand the gravity of pregnancy and is constantly pregnant because of it. hookups, guys he's just been dating for a few months, it doesn't matter - if he's spending any extended amount of time with a guy, it's inevitably a matter of time before he's pregnant again, and he never seems to be bothered enough by this to try and be safer. his friends and family lecture him to the best of their ability, but he never seems to care or learn his lesson even as his family grows and grows, and soon enough pregnancy is a frequent enough state for him that he no longer considers it a big deal at all, oblivious to how annoyed everyone around him is every time he sheepishly announces yet another baby on the way with a man he barely knows

[merakiui]

*DIGS YOU OUT FROM THE MUD* MOOOOOAR!!!! HDJSJSK once azul find out the secret behind his fave milk, floyd takes him out back and forces him to breed u to keep quiet and jade omg jad has the biggest balls and loves to put them on ur face aaaaaaa

AAAAAAAA YES YES YES OTL THANK YOU FOR DIGGING ME OUT.......... allow me to describe The Vision because I had more thoughts while I was trapped under the mud.

(cw: nsfw, female hucow reader, breeding, pregnancy, bull hybrid jade, lactation, there's really no plot here; just pure horny >_< )

✧ floyd has the biggest crush on you and it's so obvious, but he's not allowed to touch you because boring farm regulations and blah blah blah. >:( it wouldn't be good if another male's scent was on you when they're trying to pair you and jade together, and floyd thinks that's a stupid rule because you're his girl!!! he definitely doesn't follow it. maybe he promises to be good and pull out each time, maybe give you a bath to wash his scent off, just to keep things safe. he's so stupidly in love with you and it shows. orz his favorite thing to do is milk you because you make the cutest little sounds. he's painfully hard the entire time and he can't stop looking at your heavy tits, admiring the feel of them in his hands, or the way you tremble, your body alight with arousal. he's down so bad. he has to cap all of the bottles and stock them in the fridge first before he's going off to deal with his erection. T_T

✧ and jade......... he's a sly bastard. he knows floyd's in love with you (anyone could tell) and he takes every possible opportunity to stir up drama just for the fun of it. floyd threatens to send him off to the slaughterhouse if he keeps acting like an ass, but that's jade's specialty. <3 he just loves pressing you against the fence and rutting into you from behind, loves to drink straight from your tits, loves to fuck you in broad daylight so that everyone on the farm knows you're getting your guts rearranged by him. and floyd hates it! it's just not fair. why did they have to bring jade in? can't they just leave the breeding up to floyd? he'd gladly knock you up. but you and jade are so compatible and jade's so possessive of you, and the last time floyd tried to enter your pen he was swiftly kicked in the stomach. ;;;;;

✧ and azul!!!! he loves, loves, loves the milk from this farm. it's just so delicious; it's made the dishes at his restaurant taste even better than before. since he's an ambitious man, he originally visits the farm with the intention of purchasing whichever dairy cow is responsible for producing such high-quality milk just so he can get it straight from the source without having to go through the hoops of shipping and whatnot. but floyd's so evasive with answering his questions and as azul's leaving in a huff he passes the barn and spies you inside and...... now he needs you!!! he'll pay any price; he's desperate. floyd's dying inside because no one's supposed to know about you, but this loud-mouthed businessman knows and..... he allows azul to milk you so he can take a few bottles home for himself in exchange for his silence, and azul is so good at rizzing you that he ends up fucking you. and jade lets it happen because it's another fun way to watch floyd shrivel up and die. T_T he's so mean,,,,,

✧ and when you're pregnant, your milk production seems to double and you have to be milked multiple times a day because your tits get so heavy and full. floyd's living the dream, even more so when you weep and beg him to just fuck you already because you're soooo sensitive and soooo horny and you desperately need to be filled with cock; and jade's busy napping, so he can't do it. floyd gladly takes his place and he's the happiest in the world because after so long he finally gets to fuck you. he cums so much, all of it stuffed inside, and he cradles your belly so sweetly and tenderly.

✧ the alternative to this idea is that azul kidnaps you from the farm and keeps you captive in his home so that he can always have your milk for himself. not only for personal enjoyment but for the mostro lounge as well, and you hate him so much because he took you away from your home and friends and he keeps you shackled and collared with a little bell so you won't run away or escape. you've spent so long with him and you're months into your first pregnancy with him and he's been nothing but sweet and soft and he fucks you so good; and he's always so eager to milk you and he praises you constantly. stockholm syndrome kicks in and suddenly he's not so bad. suddenly you don't hate him anymore. suddenly you're riding him into the sheets with reckless abandon and coming apart on his cock because it feels so good and you love him so much and this is where you've always wanted to be. this is your home.

[howlsofbloodhounds]

hey I was wondering, do you have any thoughts or headcannons about Crescent? (Killer and Nightmare most popular fanchild) I always thought that his existence would be very interesting for the interaction between the two but the fandom kind of completely ignores them when it comes to Crescent, which is really annoying because this has so much potential to traumatize both of them (especially Killer)

Oh man, it’s been awhile since i thought about anything related to shipkids or Crescent. Now I did talk about how I think Stage 2 Killer, the Killer Crescent is most likely to be familiar with, would think of, react to, feel about, and behave around children in general right here.

All is to say, i don’t think Killer would ever want children of his own. Any kids he may potentially have would be on accident or something he was not willingly doing or had a hand in.

I do still think Stage 2’s ways of thinking about people in general—not full “people,” unreal, objects of fascination and study, NPCs running on scripts and predicable, tools or resources, targets, threats, etc—would extend to his own kids.

If it was something he didn’t willingly partake in, he’d avoid confronting his lack of agency or desire for such a thing—and he wouldn’t think of any kids as his. He’d think, “they’re not mine. Just another way this body was used.” Or “the results of someone else’s choices” or in some cases, “a means to an end.”

At most, if the child was an accident and unplanned, he may begin to see the kid(s) as “his.” But not in the way a parent typically thinks about their child; just as a fact. They’re “biologically” or magically, I guess, his. They may even be his in the same way that, say, the phone I’m typing on to respond to this ask is mine.

I wouldn’t want anyone touching it without permission or going through it or breaking it or stealing it from me. I have a password to keep it safe. I have a case on it so its screen doesn’t break when I drop it. It’s a cute case. I make sure to charge it when it needs to be charged, manage its storage, try to avoid giving it any bugs or viruses and try to fix it if it does get any. I make sure not to overcharge and overheat it.

Sometimes I play around in its settings and try to figure out how it works, what it can and can’t do, what I can and can’t change about it. There’s ideas and worries and thoughts floating around that my phone could be used against me, leak my personal information, explode and hurt me, etc.

When it doesn’t work as intended or in a timely manner or does anything that happens to regular phones and are just natural or inconvenient, I get annoyed with it and think about throwing it at wall. I don’t do it—but killer would have a much harder time with a kid in this analogy then I would.

I am not conditioned to respond with violence to certain triggers—it just mildly annoyed me. And he may just have to forcibly remove himself from the situation/kid, if only because he doesn’t want this kid “controlling” him.

If I lost or broke my phone id be annoyed and frustrated, upset about all my data and photos and videos and memories being lost—but would ultimately move on with my life. I would more so be upset that I wasted the money of the person who bought and gifted the phone.

Of course things with Killer and any kids of his in this phone analogy don’t fit perfectly. For one thing he wouldn’t even bother getting a “phone” in this case, and if he ever accidentally ended up with one and he wasn’t able to “share” it with someone (raise the kid alongside the parent as support or have any form of support), he’d find someone else to take it.

If he couldn’t find anyone else to take it, and the phone was capable of being taught to care and look after itself, he might do that if he’s in the environment to do so (aka not with Nightmare), then leave once he’s sure it can. Probably wouldn’t think much of the phone again.

Now back to Crescent specifically. I forgot what his story was so I had to look up a wiki, which may not be reliable, but something in particular stood out to me and kinda made me laugh.

“Killer doesn't care about Crescent. When Nightmare said that they now have a child together, Killer commented on this news with an emotionless "Wow".”

Very silly of him to do. But makes sense, since it’s to my understanding that this kid was not made out of any love between Killer and Nightmare—Crescent was made purely for Nightmare’s plans.

It’s mentioned that Nightmare is the mother, and maybe possibly given birth (?) to him, so at least Killer didn’t have to experience the body horror of unwanted pregnancy. But the way it’s said makes me think he still definitely wasn’t given any choice in this matter.

I remember hearing around that Nightmare actually raised Crescent in his early years due to wanting to raise him “right.” I personally don’t see Nightmare doing any of the child rearing honestly, i think it’d actually be left to Killer.

And I already talked about how I think Killer would fare with having been ordered to care for a child in the linked post, but there’s the added bonus of Crescent being Killer and Nightmare’s kid, Killer’s unwanted kid, the fact that he was likely ordered by the Boss to train and basically indoctrinate Crescent into whatever plans Nightmare has for the kid.

It was mentioned that Crescent is resentful and resistant towards Nightmare and his plans, hiding the full extent of his powers simply to spite Nightmare. And while I do think Killer may be all for spiting Nightmare, there’s the fact that Crescent himself isn’t likely to face the consequences for his disobedience; Killer is.

Hell, in the darkest timeline, Killer may even be the one ordered to dish out any punishment on Crescent himself; encouraged to give in to his conditioning while also having to restrain himself from killing the kid.

But it’s more likely that Killer would face punishment from Nightmare for any disobedience Crescent displays. Which in turn builds Killer’s both resentment and feelings of being powerless, but also leads to deep repression which increases his apathy and indifference.

All in all, i think Killer would both fear and hate that kid deep down. Very deep. But enough that whenever he’s in Stage 1, he’ll stay far away from Crescent; and warn the kid to do the same. He may even arm Crescent with a way to protect himself from Killer, similar to the way he tells Color he has to kill him if he ever goes Stage 3.

Crescent would likely be raised with the knowledge that his father—the one whose been taking care of and raising him all these years, but may have also been the one to have greatly wounded and betrayed him (regardless of choice or not)— is a danger to him, and one day, he may have to kill him—or he’d die instead.

[keepthetension]

still stuck on porjai, visibly pregnant, flirting with night

who fucking goes for it

i only know the asian culture i grew up in, obviously, and not thai culture. but the social stigma of being unmarried and pregnant? and having the nerve to still be flirting?? that's not the Good Girl thing to do, and i remember the way the Not Good Girls were treated and talked about where i grew up

so porjai actively trying to get dates? night finding out she's pregnant with her ex's kid and just. being fine with that? big deal to me

[poorlittleyaoyao]

But Madam Qin explicitly did not want to doom Qin Su to the incest marriage. When she got the wedding invitation even after warning JGY she fainted dead away on the spot and died of depression shortly afterwards and could only bring herself to warn Bicao on her death bed.

I assume this is in response to my tags on this post about "plot holes" in MDZS, in which my exact words were "JGY and Madam Qin decided quietly dooming QS to the incest marriage was the best option." Deciding that something is the best option is not the same as wanting it. Deciding to amputate a gangrenous limb so the infection doesn't spread and kill me doesn't mean I want to chop my arm off, it means I've determined that this is the least-damaging option available to me.

I totally agree that Madam Qin did not want her daughter to marry her own half-brother, which is why I picked that option as the plot hole that is the hardest to give a Watsonian explanation for using the text alone. The other things listed on that poll don't impact the plot overmuch and can be explained based on other behavior we've seen from the characters and/or other expressly-stated events or aspects of the setting itself. Qin Su's pregnancy, however, is a fairly major plot point, and it being treated as something 100% inescapable where the only options are disgrace or a timely marriage, is contrary to what we know about this world and these characters. Madam Qin is not granted the privilege of having a character to begin with; all we know about her is that Jin Guangshan raped her, she kept this a secret, and that Jin Guangyao and Qin Su marrying despite her attempts to prevent it was so distressing to her that she died. Given that she so desperately wants her daughter to avoid being trapped in this marriage, but Qin Su is already pregnant, why is abortion not considered? There are possible explanations, but all of them require the reader to invent them wholecloth, because nothing we are told about her facilitates an explanation. Again, "doesn't want the incest marriage" is her primary personality trait. This is counter to that.

I do not feel it is reasonable to assume that abortifacients simply don't exist in the MDZS universe, because they exist--and have existed throughout history--in real life. They might not be safe, and they might not be effective, and they may be viewed as immoral depending on the cultural norms, but they exist. The MDZS world has magic. We see multiple characters casually walk off stab wounds even if they're of middling cultivation level. If Ancient Fantasy China's medical knowledge allows someone to successfully transplant Xiao Xingchen's entire eyes into Song Lan's head--a surgery that was only accomplished in the real world last year, with no vision in the transplanted eye--then surely abortion exists.

Meanwhile, Jin Guangyao would 100% know about abortion. He grew up in a brothel. Brothels sell sex. Sex sometimes causes unplanned pregnancy. Pregnancy for someone working in a brothel is generally a liability to be dealt with. There is no indication that we cannot apply these assumptions to the brothel in Yunping. Ergo, Jin Guangyao would know and should have at least considered it for Qin Su. There is no indication that he does.

Now--and I'm putting this in bold because this website can't read--that does not mean that there is no possible way for events to unfold as they did. There are many reasons why Madam Qin and Jin Guangyao would both disregard abortion as an option. If neither of them is willing to tell Qin Su the truth, they would need to give her drugs or treatment without her consent, and perhaps neither of them was willing to do that. Perhaps Jin Guangyao in his childhood witnessed self-induced abortions gone wrong and was unwilling to expose Qin Su to that risk, unconvinced that her social status would allow her access to better, safer care. Perhaps Madam Qin, struggling alone during her own unwanted pregnancy, had a bad experience of her own or was given bad information that convinced her abortion would be too dangerous. Maybe MDZS is like the Star Wars universe and is garbage at reproductive care specifically. Or something else entirely! The issue is that abortion is never considered within the text itself at all--not by the two parties in the know at the time, not by the peanut gallery listening to Bicao, and not by anybody interrogating Jin Guangyao at Guanyin Temple. And given how important the pregnancy is as a plot point, that's an issue!

[liminalweirdo]

Poll: Health and gender re medical malpractice

if you feel comfortable please share your choice as well as whether you have ever experienced medical malpractice

not to be that person but please consider reblogging this, my tumblr don't have a ton of traffic and i'm genuinely interested in the results.

[ct-hardcase]

just typed out a war and peace style post about wanting there to be an equivalent of body neutrality in feminist spaces re: periods/childbirth/etc and though there are so many caveats to what I have to say, I think that there can and should be a middle ground between "your divine feminine body was built for these processes and you will embrace the pain with grace/this is easy for everybody" and borderline misogynistic fearmongering surrounding standard bodily phenomena

[playingplayer2]

X/Twitter link

[bakasara]

urologist who is getting paid real money to tell women stuff like this: I see you have endometriosis. are you sure the reason you recently need to pee so badly and so frequently you can't get out of the house isn't that you're having a psychosomatic reaction set off by the fact that you haven't accepted that you have endometriosis?

me: no i'm pretty sure you just made that whole crock of shit up

(4 days later the lab results come back and they find a particularly dastardly and uncommon type of bacteria in my bladder that causes severe UTIs)

[greatbigbellies]

Just cuz I want to hear you gush about polyhydramnios more: Being pregnant with a mermaid and having an insane amount of fluid, just to be told the levels are looking a bit low.

Ooooooh yeah, thinking about how a pregnancy might vary when carrying monsters/magical creatures/aliens.

Like... amniotic fluid levels that would be considered extreme and possibly harmful levels of polyhydramnios for a human pregnancy would be just under the healthy minimum for a mermaid. Because they need to be born strong enough to swim and maneuver in water at birth, mermaids typically gestate a while longer to grant more musculature, and some extra insulation against the cold water. So a mermaid pregnancy might last more like 14 months, and get very very large and heavy, as part of building that muscle is that the baby kind of swishes and swims around in the womb as a means of learning how to swim with "training wheels". This leads to a comparatively large amount of fluid compared to the individual baby, leading to a belly which is very spherical, heavy, and stretched tiiiight with all of that liquid. Multiples are especially cumbersome because TWO baby mermaids means both need ample fluid to kick their tails in, so it's not just the size of two offspring, but the fluid they need to grow. A mermaid baby that stays curled up and doesn't swim in-utero is typically weaker and is kind of the mermaid equivalent of a preemie. As such, big, tight, fluid packed tummies with no give are celebrated and seen as very healthy.

For pregnant mermaids, it's awkward and cumbersome, but manageable, the water they swim in relieves some of the weight and open oceans grant ample space to swim and drift without feeling cramped.

The poor human in the fishing village who got too friendly with the local mermaids, however, is gonna learn that water, in large quantities, is very, very heavy.

[envolvenuances]

all the positive interaction in that post did make me want to talk more about endometriosis here and genuinely another incredible part is having the same doctors who just called me immature for saying I never desired a pregnancy anyways but mostly fertility is a smaller concern for me than life quality and my ability to work. suggest I "just need to get pregnant" like it's such a simple thing

[caffeinatedopossum]

Happy international women's day!

Because nothing says happy international woman's day like a joke about horrific medical malpractice (I'm so sorry)

[bbyboybucket]

Well, I hope the pro-lifers and the U.S. gov is happy. Cause now pregnant women (who decided to keep their child) and are having pregnancy emergencies, like ectopic pregnancies, blood clots and preeclampsia, placenta complications and decay, birth/labor complications, etc. are being refused treatment to help them survive. Literally even women who are in ORGAN FAILURE are being turned away by hospitals and doctors and are being refused treatment due to abortion laws, or if not outright refused, they’re being put at the bottom of triage. These women who are dying or at risk of dying, are being denied survival for themselves and even possibly their child, because if a mother dies, it’s likely the fetus isn’t gonna have an easy time either. That’s super “pro-life” of these people. So “pro-life” that they’re okay with a woman dying because she tried to have a child and her body couldn’t keep up with the physical demands. When will these dumb fucks realize that it was never and will never just be about the “morals” of birth control. It doesn’t just involve a woman may wanna terminate an unplanned pregnancy, it’s hurting the women who do want to have children too. And if someone can’t bring themselves to agree with pregnancy termination, the least they can do is wake up and realize this is bigger than birth control. It’s literally life or death of full grown women. It’s life or death for your sisters, your mothers, your wives, or even yourself if you’re a woman who’s a pro-life. And these people are dying, literally dying. All because idiots would rather have both mother and child die, than just save the woman who has an actual life.

[womenaremypriority]

Learning about pregnant women in prisons: no men in women’s prisons, not guards not doctors nor anyone. Okay

[canichangemyblogname]

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Didn’t want to start an argument with someone and also they changed their reblog permissions (and I likely know why).

Anyway… this post is kind of a willful misrepresentation of the critique of this practice.

Usually, when the pregnancy test practice is brought up, it’s by women who literally cannot be or get pregnant. They’re not complaining about some “woe is me. I have to pee on a stick. it’s so inconvenient.” They’re trying to point out how doctors generalize based on sex instead of looking at a patient’s available medical records to see that they can’t get pregnant.

The women who bring this up are making a similar argument to the “what anatomy do you have checklist” post. The checklist lists sexual anatomy that someone might need care for or that the doctors will need to consider in the patient’s care.

I also see women complain about this when they come in for something unrelated to pregnancy and the doctors write it off as likely pregnancy (similar to how they will write off any and every symptom as pms). My mother’s best friend went in for raging migraines and nausea. Despite being post menopausal, they told her she might be pregnant. They asked her to pee on a stick. She has an aneurysm. 

When my mother’s gallbladder exploded, the doctor wanted her to first take a pregnancy test to make sure she wasn’t in labor (huh??). Labor and a gallbladder bursting have two VERY different sets of symptoms. My mother was upset by this because 1.) she doesn’t have a uterus, 2.) she is post menopausal, 3.) pregnancy and labor do not exhibit the same symptoms as a gallbladder rupturing (she’s been in labor; this was not it), 4.) she knew something was WRONG. But they would NOT proceed until she had taken a test. It caused critical delays in her care.

The pee on a stick practice is often a part of medical misogyny and medical transphobia. Just because a practice might be a precaution, especially given that many women do not know they’re pregnant in the earliest stages of pregnancy, doesn’t mean it doesn’t also reinforce biases.

When women critique this practice, it’s not because they feel disgruntled or put-out that they have to take regular pregnancy tests while on meds that cause birth defects. It’s because a doctor saw an F next to their name and assumed, and this caused delays in their care or resulted in a lack of care for what truly ailed them.

I have a transfemme friend with an F next to her name. She cannot get pregnant. She does not have a uterus. Doctors ask her to take tests just to “make sure” all the time. This is medical transphobia.

My cousin is transmasc. He has an M next to his name. He has a uterus and can get pregnant. Last year, he was prescribed Accutane, but he was not prescribed the two forms of birth control that he needs to be on. Luckily, he is always vigilant about his medical care and looked into the drug. He called the doctor back to tell them, “I should be on birth control with this drug.” This is medical transphobia. (I’m pretty sure you also have to take regular pregnancy tests while on those meds.)

“There’s medical misogyny and transphobia that ACTUALLY kills people” really downplays the way this practice delays or denies care to people who cannot get pregnant, but who doctors “expect” can, and actively harms people who can get pregnant, but who doctors “expect” cannot.

Also HATE HATE HATE this whole “it’s drilled into our heads not to just believe patients.” You don’t think that might be a problem? Or a source of a lot of problems? There’s a difference between making sure you run the appropriate tests to cover your bases so you can ensure you give someone the proper care that considers all factors and “don’t believe people.”