Pregnancy Old Wives Tales
Women were blessed with the gift of being able to give life. It's the most amazing thing that a human can do. It's an altruistic gesture and the love that comes from this bond is unlimited. Parents, family , our mother are the only things important in life. Making a baby has it's phases. First comes love, then comes sex, then comes pregnancy and in the end comes birth. Sex is not a tabu subject anymore. Everyone has sex, from teenagers to old people if you can believe it. Sexual appetite , lust , passion can exists at any age. Hormones are always raging for more and so, sex has become more of a need and not a pleasure. Women should be more attentive when they have sex. Many lose their head and let themselves be carried away by the moment and it's not ok. Sex can lead to different serious diseases or unwanted pregnancy. For those who really want a baby, finding out they are going to have a baby is the best news they will receive their entire life.

Pregnancy lasts for whole nine beautiful months. The pregnancy is the most amazing experience a woman can have. Nowadays, pregnancy is not as it were many years ago. Today, the information, about anything not just pregnancy, is easy to find. Women are informed about what they should eat so their baby grows healthy, what they should do or not do, how they should give birth so they won't be in great pain. Even so, with all the new technology and all our impressive ways to make our life easier, still women complain or their babies are not healthy. Back then, Pregnancy Old Wives Tales say that there weren't magazines about babies, and how you should take care of them, there weren't nutritionists to tell them what to eat, and giving birth was very very painful, without any drugs or painkillers. Still, babies were healthy and strong. Nowadays, we treat pregnancy as a disease, we are too careful, too preoccupied to scared to do anything.

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There are many  Pregnancy Old Wives Tales. We hear stories from our grandmothers or great grandmothers that show how pregnancy was back then. My mother said she didn't knew that she has to set a certain limit in the weight she gained. She was eating anything, and so, she had a very difficult time to get all that extra fat off. Also , delivering the baby was a very scary  moment. Nowadays pregnancy is much easier and  giving birth is a lot faster and safe. Talking to older people can show us how it was to live in the 80's or in the 60's . Wives were staying home and taking care of the children while men would go on the field or at work to bring food on the table. Nowadays, women are independent, they hire nannies for the babies. Growing up in the 70's was a lot different than today. Tales about giving birth or raising a child , can open up our eyes and say tank you for what we have today.

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