rebuttal of "The List"

100+ Reasons Not To Have Kids If You Are Unserious Person

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

First of all kudos for researching pregnancy. Lots of info on how to avoid getting pregnant vs wtf it means to be pregnant. i'm grateful you are bridging the gap and compiling women's childbirth stories.

That being said the list of reasons to not have kids is deeply unserious. Every single person alive is a result of a childbirth, there is many of us out there. The tiny risk rates are smaller than driving a car please be serious

Pregnancy

1. “Morning sickness”
   ever had a hangover and yet u drink alcohol bruh

2. “You can become allergic to your own skin. It’s called pemphigoid gestationis and it effects about 1 in 50,000 pregnancies.”
   that's 0.002%

3. “You can’t choose how many babies you have. Imagine you finally decide you’re ready to have a kid and then BOOM, triplets. That’s triple the finances, triple the mouths to feed, and triple the stress!”
   it's not triple the finances and stress, more babies scale

4. “MANY women lose their teeth during and after pregnancy. Babies need a lot of calcium to grow their skeletons, and if there isn’t enough calcium in the woman’s diet, the baby will take the calcium from the mother’s bones. They literally steal your bones to make their own.”
   take calcium, noted

5. “Babies sometimes grind their gums together in the womb and you can HEAR THEM doing it”
   cool i like sounds

6. “Fetuses in the womb will grow hair called lanugo all over their bodies in order to help keep them warm. Eventually the fetus will shed that hair and eat it. For the first few days of their life, a babies poop is made out of mostly hair and amniotic fluid. ew.”
   my dog's poop is ew too

7. “This heavily tattooed woman grew warts and blisters all over her body because her pregnant body started to reject the years-old ink from her tattoos.”
   i don't have tattoos, but it is still rare, lots of women with tattoos this doesn’t happen to

8. “Babies kicking and moving around in the womb isn’t always “cute.” Sometimes it looks like an alien is trying to brutally claw their way out of the body. And apparently it HURTS.”
   note to self to check the probability of it hurting 8/10, i think it’s not that likely

9. “You can become allergic to the baby’s pee when it’s inside you which makes your insides feel “itchy””
   ok thats not pleasant

10. “One woman said the baby felt like a “bag of snakes” inside her” ONE woman

11. “You can grow pregnancy tumors in your mouth called pryogenic granulomas”
    sucks

12. “Your toenails can get really soft and break or even fall completely off”
    so many non pregant ppl have issues with toenails too

13. “It’s very common for the 2 muscles that run down the middle of your stomach to separate during pregnancy. It’s called diastasis recti and your can put your fingers into the separation”
    harmless

14. “You can develop an allergy to your pets while pregnant. This one is an absolute deal breaker for me, my 2 cats are my babies.”
    dog stays at siblings place or vice versa

15. “When babies “kick,” they can actually bruise you from the inside.” lmao how often i have bruises from bumping somewhere

16. “Pregnancy nose.”
    big noses are good actually

17. “It’s possible to become so constipated during pregnancy that the poop has to come out the other end. Pregnant people have literally puked their own sh*t.”
    well im constipated anyways, but ok not that bad

18. “One mom developed asthma from her baby kicking her lungs so often inside her”
    sad this sucks

19. “Chromhidrosis is a rare condition commonly associated with pregnancy where your sweat can turn colors. This can dye your clothing, your bed sheets, and even your toilet seat blue, green, yellow, brown, or even black.”
    lmao couldnt care less about clothes

20. “Preeclampsia and all of it’s symptoms (Headaches that don't go away, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, pain, sudden weight gain, trouble breathing, edemas, and more)”
    sucks

21. “Stone Babies. Calcified fetuses that, if undetected, can stay in your body for your entire life. This woman was “pregnant” with a stone baby for over 40 years.”
    i do ultrasounds often i will notice

22. “Baby kicks feel like diarrhea at first”
    i will get used to it

23. “Your belly can stretch so far that your belly button completely disappears”
    cool

24. ““Morning” sickness is not limited to mornings.”
    ok

25. “You can get pregnant… while you’re pregnant. It’s called a “superfetation” pregnancy. One surrogate mother was pregnant with someone else’s baby and then got pregnant with her own baby 6 months later!”
    amazing what human bodies can do

26. “Blood volume during pregnancy increases by 45%. You have almost a gallon more blood in your body while pregnant.”
    yay more blood

    Childbirth

27. come on we have medicine now

28. ok

29. if she wrote it she was alive at the end so its fine thumbs up emoji

30. ok contractions can suck

31. got it not pushing too hard

32. +1

33. cool next kid is easier?

34. ooouch

35. im not clicking the link im scared

36. how often are extreme cases

37. lmao sometimes the blood vessels in my eye rupture its no biggie

38. cool

39. idk what is this

40. oh no

41. ouch

42. lmao u dont pay medical bills in full. 80% of hospital bills are wrong, they overcharged you, call them to fix it IT WORKS

43. Caesarean section

44. ok im not gonna say anything but iykyk

45. i have had surgeries im not scared

46. not scared of needles

47. divorce him come on living with this man sucks even without kids, next

48. sucks

49. ok this sucks but diapers exist

    Postpartum & the Newborn Phase

50. have had them

51. yea i can deal with that

52. not clicking, scared

53. not my problem i will get used to it

54. i have a dog

55. not a dealbreaker

56. lmao is that all you can do?

57. hahaha

58. did i mention i have a dog

59. i dont have it

60. ok

61. ok interesting

62. i have enough money

63. ok

64. will figure smth out

65. idk what is it

66. ok i can handle it come on why are y'all so pressed about doing smth in public??

67. you don't have to replace your entire closet, be fucking for real and get a couple of pieces. can find maternity clothes in fb marketplace for free

68. i didnt know that, ok

69. i had it all as a kid

70. oh no

71. i dont care

72. oh no

73. gotta pay attention to newborns

74. is this all u got? i have had dandruff most of my life

    The Toddler Phase

75. ok i knew that, i like people

76. hahaha but i can clean

77. i have a dog

78. keep my stuff out of reach, got it

79. i want to go to the park lets go to the park!!!!!

80. some other ppl have dogs that do that

81. negotiate medical bills GUYS, kids dont eat much, take a loan, dont pay medical bills, come on extra seat vs the value u get from kid ask any parent if they would like their kid or 50$ i wonder what they answer, housing indeed sucks that i agree on, clothes are cheaper than ever!!!!

82. or u can just not have a tv

83. RARE cases

84. ruins your aesthetic? are you f for real come on?????

85. i have a dog

86. NO IT IS NOT EMBARRASSING IT IS ONLY EMBARRASING WHEN YOU MAKE IT EMBARRASING GET TF OVER URSELF

87. im not clicking that

88. i have a dog

89. i would love that wtf is wrong with you???

90. i broke my bones falling on a ground without a toy

91. haha will talk to my kids about this

92. ok that i take seriously, this sucks

93. dont have to fly babe

94. i have a dog

95. ok

96. sucks

97. this is a real problem! it's not reason not to have kids, but it's as a society we have to make changes to help parents. pls offer to look after your friends child for 2h so they can run errands. pay it forward!

98. i have a dog and i would notice

99. ok but she noticed and didnt drink it

100. haha thats silly

101. clean ur makeup brushes this applies to everyone

102. haha