A Political Message: Please Don’t Call Me Preggers or Prego | Health

By Ashley Robinson

Just typing those words makes me want to hurl. And trust me, with this never-ending morning sickness over the past five months, I am done with hurling.

You ask: Why do I hate those words – so innocuous, so precious – so much?

Because no one ever says them naturally. It always sounds like a five-year-old’s voice coming out of a grown woman’s body, and that grown woman should call it what it is: I’m pregnant, I’m with child, I’m gestating another human being, I’m serving as a host to an alien creature …

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