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It’s hard to imagine anyone saying to herself, “Hey, I feel like gaining 30 pounds, throwing up all the time, and being bloated for nine months.” And yet, millions of women happily get pregnant, or try to get pregnant, every day.
Most women start to feel the urge to have a baby in their late twenties or early thirties. But pregnancy may not be for everybody. Beren and Amanda have very different feelings about it. Listen to what they think.
Dialog
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Beren: All the women I know, their biological clocks are ticking. They’re all early thirties. They want kids!
Amanda: Yep, that’s the age. All of my friends are pregnant right now.
Beren: Really?
Amanda: Yeah with their second and third children.
Beren: Are you serious?
Amanda: Yeah. I’ve been pregnant. You know my son, he’s six.
Beren: Oh yeah. You must have been pregnant at some point. You have a kid.
Amanda: I would highly recommend it.
Beren: Well not to me. No. I’ll recommend it to my friends. I don’t want to…
Amanda: OK, well I was just…
Beren: I couldn’t deal with morning sickness.
Amanda: It’s not too bad. And it’s so weird, ‘cause it’s called morning sickness, but it’s so not. It’s morning, noon, night, midnight…
Beren: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah, that queasy, nauseated, bloated feeling.
Beren: Like a hangover?
Amanda: Kind of. But then you get to your second trimester and you’re kind of back to your old self, except for the little football belly. It’s pretty good. You have no idea. I think you should just get on that train.
Beren: I don’t think it’s for me.
Amanda: Really? OK.
Beren: Multiple reasons why, but…
Amanda: To each their own.
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Discussion
Often, when a woman reaches her late twenties or early thirties, her body starts telling her that it’s time to have a baby. Beren says that a lot of her friends’ biological clocks are ticking. They want to get pregnant.
Amanda already has one child, and now many of her friends are pregnant for a second or third time. Although Amanda says being pregnant is amazing, Beren isn’t interested. For one thing, she couldn’t stand the morning sickness that most women experience in the first trimester of pregnancy. But she has other reasons, too.
Do you have kids or would you like to one day? Is someone you’re close to pregnant right now?
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I singel, and I don't feeling to be dad. It's crazy for me! I love free life |
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Lately there isan't noboby pregnant near me and I don't have kids…My only "kid" is a black kitty hehe |
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