Dec 07 2008
Is Obesity During Pregnancy Child Abuse?
Too Fat for a Baby?
I just read, “Is Obesity During Pregnancy Child Abuse?” which is an article I found after googling for obesity and pregnancy health risk information.
You see, today is my 37th birthday and if I want to be a mommy, I need to get the lead out. But I obviously care enough about my future child to want to do everything possible to make sure it’s healthy (not to mention my husband’s fears for my own health during a high-risk pregnancy).
http://wwwwww.newstarget.com/001415.html
My well-meaning efforts lead me to this pseudo-natural-health site that condemns women with high BMIs for reproducing. I could weep. I’ve always been lethally optimistic so things like this shock me to my very core. It gives me the tiniest inkling of how it must have felt to be black before the Civil Rights movement or Jewish pre-WWII.
Don’t get me wrong, I know that the fat-hatred in this country is NOTHING like the ignorance and violence Jews and African-Americans experienced, but for someone like me - a white girl from “Small Town, USA” - it’s horrifying.
