It’s MotherEffinRant Time!

Srsly? SRSLY?

Ok,so, last night we were watching “I didn’t know I was pregnant” because that shit always cracks me up – mother of 3 doesn’t realize she’s pregnant with number 4 until she drops the kid on the bedroom floor. NICE. Anyway, afterwards there was a show called “Obese and pregnant” and I didn’t bother to change the channel because I was working and hardly paying attention anyway.

And then I paid attention, because srsly? Who was the skinny assed bitch that wrote that shit?! This is the statement that got my attention:

“With 360 pounds on her 5’6″ frame, every step is like carrying a washing machine.”

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WHAT?! So, as a total fatass myself, who is 5’6″ and weighs quite close to the woman she was talking about, I can pretty much guarantee that I don’t feel like I’m carrying around a wash machine with every step.

(and YES – I’m well aware of the dangers of obesity, and NO I don’t need you to tell me I’m a fatass, so just turn your little commenting fingers away if that’s all you’ve got to say.)

And it even got worse. This was a show of scare tactics, plain and simple. That and deliberate inhumane dehumanization of one of the women. Two had complications, all three had c-sections, but here’s the worst thing. When one woman went for her epidural, they used TAPE to move her fat aside, assuring her that this was normal, and that they had to in order to get to her spine for the epidural.

Bullshit.
BULLSHIT.

I’m well aware that maybe I carry my fat around my frame differently? But sitting up, hunched over as they make you do, my spine is in PERFECT view – no problems reaching/getting to it at all, let alone with the need to TAPE MY FAT UP TO MY SHOULDERS. It was RIDICULOUS.

And it got worse.

Once they laid her down, they used the same 3-4 inch wide tape to hook under her belly and LIFT IT, hooking the other end of the tape to the bar just above her head, in a move that was VISIBLY overkill and unneeded. The ONLY cause for it to be done was to further humiliate and dehumanize a woman who’s already emotionally distraught.

I was pregnant the first time relatively thin – heavy by most standards, but not bad at all. I lost weight with my second. With my third, I was heavy to begin with and heavy to end with. But NEVER would my OB have had to TAPE my shit aside to do her job.

Other irritants: I’m sorry – at 9 months pregnant, even if you started out a skinny ass bitch, walking up steps takes your breath away, you need help sitting up out of bed at times, and you can’t breathe easily. These are not symptoms of OBESITY per se – but of having a BABY squishing EVERYTHING inside out of place as well as your joints going all loosey goosy on you! I had all those problems with all THREE of my pregnancies – skinny ass or not.

This show was a clear case of extremes and scare tactics.
Boo,TLC. BOO. Go back to your little people shows and John and Kate +1029381209321.