الثلاثاء، 18 ديسمبر 2018

Why do stories about morning sickness inspire such rage? | Zoe Williams

Medicine has a history of minimising female pain, even more so when the female is pregnant – there’s a savagery directed at the whole maternal package

You can tell when the Daily Mail disapproves of something because it puts it in capital letters, so it feels as though you, the reader, are being shouted at, which is confusing. How can it be your fault? You only just found out.

Anyway, the Mail is very angry with pregnant women: 20,000 ambulances (or “up to”, so it could be any number) are despatched every year for morning sickness. What a shameful waste of NHS resources. Those women should just eat a ginger biscuit and stop moaning, like it says in baby manuals from the 50s.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2PMnpTA

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