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Pregnancy

Date: Nov 28 2008

Themes: Family, Health

Grammar: Present Progressive Tense

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It’s hard to imagine anyone saying to herself, “Hey, I feel like gaining 30 pounds, throwing up all the time, and being bloated for nine months.” And yet, millions of women happily get pregnant, or try to get pregnant, every day.

Most women start to feel the urge to have a baby in their late twenties or early thirties. But pregnancy may not be for everybody. Beren and Amanda have very different feelings about it. Listen to what they think.

Dialog

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Beren

Amanda

Beren: All the women I know, their biological clocks are ticking. They’re all early thirties. They want kids!

Amanda: Yep, that’s the age. All of my friends are pregnant right now.

Beren: Really?

Amanda: Yeah with their second and third children.

Beren: Are you serious?

Amanda: Yeah. I’ve been pregnant. You know my son, he’s six.

Beren: Oh yeah. You must have been pregnant at some point. You have a kid.

Amanda: I would highly recommend it.

Beren: Well not to me. No. I’ll recommend it to my friends. I don’t want to…

Amanda: OK, well I was just…

Beren: I couldn’t deal with morning sickness.

Amanda: It’s not too bad. And it’s so weird, ‘cause it’s called morning sickness, but it’s so not. It’s morning, noon, night, midnight…

Beren: Yeah.

Amanda: Yeah, that queasy, nauseated, bloated feeling.

Beren: Like a hangover?

Amanda: Kind of. But then you get to your second trimester and you’re kind of back to your old self, except for the little football belly. It’s pretty good. You have no idea. I think you should just get on that train.

Beren: I don’t think it’s for me.

Amanda: Really? OK.

Beren: Multiple reasons why, but…

Amanda: To each their own.

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Discussion

Often, when a woman reaches her late twenties or early thirties, her body starts telling her that it’s time to have a baby. Beren says that a lot of her friends’ biological clocks are ticking. They want to get pregnant.

Amanda already has one child, and now many of her friends are pregnant for a second or third time. Although Amanda says being pregnant is amazing, Beren isn’t interested. For one thing, she couldn’t stand the morning sickness that most women experience in the first trimester of pregnancy. But she has other reasons, too.

Do you have kids or would you like to one day? Is someone you’re close to pregnant right now?

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Ceromi

Taiwan

I feel very awesome.

Christoph07

Germany

It has to be exciting to know a new indivual person is growing in your body. I've heard that your body is floating with different hormones and the biochemically processes are little different in this time. A friend who had never any accident told me that she had two small car accidents in time of her pregnancy and it was hard to concentrate to things like car driving. And I've heard that some women become an addiction in this strange feeling of hormone floating. And they want to get many more children than one or two. Maybe the feeling of importantness is another point.

liuyanrong

China

I have no plan to have a baby in the near future because I think it will take me a lot of effort to bring him/her up athough I am alredy in my late twenties.Maybe as time passes , my opinion will be changed.

ILya

Russian Federation

I think the Pregnancy The best idea to spend free time and money))), and good way to became older and clever.

I wish all girl that want to became pregnant to reach this wonderful condidtion.

p.s have a good Pregnancy!

kukuka

Ukraine

i have a child but i see nothing so special in pregnancy. its just one of many other possible condidtions of your organism. and also i think that events and occurrences are much more simple than our reaction to them.

world princess

Saudi Arabia

good

kotter

Taiwan

we plan have a baby within two years , I think the pregnant woman is very beautiful , like an angle.

shanzhishi

China

I am a man,but I also love children,and if I have two babies,I think it's a wonderful thing for me.I am hoping…...

rayson

China

the morning sickness is so sadness. because my firend sasi that. it's alldays. and it happend during the first three monthes. now it's alllright. so congratulationg to all the pre-mothers. :)

Tonya

Russian Federation

I didn't have morning sick at all. To be pregnant is very amazingly and interesting. You know that you can give life to a child. And this child can open whole world for self. It's super!:) All wonderful world you can give for your baby!:)

Cugbphoenix

China

Ha, I'm working hard and earning money now and preparing everything for my future baby 2 or 3 years later. I just bought one house in Beijing and it left me a lot of house debt.

sodadog

China

Until now,I haven't been thinking about I'll be pregnant one day and I'ne never wanted to.

I just can not say that I would not have a baby from now on but may be an adopted-child~

iya

Philippines

At 23 now and at my age I don’t think am ready for pregnancy. I am not yet stable emotionally. Few of my friends had been settled already, they seem happy but there are a lot things that they can’t do and they told me i should enjoy every minute of my single hood. That is what am doing now, shopping, traveling and sometimes boys hunting (just kidding). They were saying they wish that they could turn back the time. Having a baby is a serious responsibility yet fun. The giggle and the laughter of every child makes every mom in the world complete. Sometimes those women who are in early 30’s and 40’s act ironically to what they feel about getting pregnant and having baby. For those women out there, just be real.