Living for Disco

I freaked Gordon out the other day when he found me hovering by the vitamin aisle in Boots, holding a bottle of folic acid (£1.45) in one hand and a packet of WellWoman Preconception tablets (£9.99) in the other. I still function under the delusion that if something is more expensive it must be better. Need to work on that – recession and all.

I presented the two choices to him and he said “Oh, my god. You’re not going to go all crazy pregnant woman on me are you?” I think he is worried that if I do get pregnant, I will want to stop eating all kinds of cheese, will pass out at the mention of caffeine and eventually my head will drop off from the worry that being in the vicinity of shellfish will harm my unborn child. And there are some crazy people out there – I have a friend who came under attack from strangers for drinking coffee while pregnant.

I’m possibly in a minority, but I’m of the opinion that women have been giving birth for centuries while continuing to eat a diet scattered with cheese, prawns and coffee – and for many pregnant women in the world, that diet would be a luxury, believe me. Imagine carrying a child on only one meal of maize porridge a day. I am probably going to have the odd glass of wine here and there, and I shan’t be giving up my morning cup of Tetley. Call me irresponsible.

Right now, I’m more worried that I’m going to be one of the many women out there that struggle to conceive. After watching all of my friends swell and reproduce with alarming fecundity, I feel that the statistics are increasingly not in my favour. There’s no rhyme or reason behind my concern. It’s always been there – a niggly feeling that something might be amiss in my plumbing. Still, there’s no point in worrying about what hasn’t happened, until it continues not to happen. I expect I will find out for myself soon enough.

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