In her newest video, Annie says (quote) "I believe the better we feel during pregnancy, I feel like that energy really translates a lot to the baby, and a calm and happy mama will hopefully produce a calm and happy baby." Ummm, not quite Annie
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While the general gist here feels correct (it's important take care of your body physically and emotionally during pregnancy, as well as you can), I'm sorry to say that I personally have had pregnancies that were super difficult and taxing on my body (my first pregnancy, for example, I both experienced deep sadness from loss of a dear friend, and also had hyperemesis (constant nausea) and was lucky if I could eat anything at all (much less work out), while in my third pregnancy, I felt so amazing, was in a great place, ate the healthiest in my life and went for a hike on my due date
!! Well, I can say that all of my children are happy (half of the time lol
, but my first baby (the super difficult pregnancy) is literally the easiest and calmest kid in world (has been since birth), while my third child (the super healthy pregnancy) was super fussy as a baby, and 8 years later, calm is, ahem, still NOT a word I would use to describe her
(though her passion and strong feelings are something I love most about her)!!
This experience is not unique - in fact, I rarely talk to mother who attributes a "super calm and happy pregnancy" to their child's "calm and happy" attitude. When Annie says stuff like this, I truly feel bad about what will happen if her baby is NOT a calm and happy personality?? Which, is totally FINE - we are all different, and how boring would the world be if we were all calm, positive, beige, non-passionate people?? Unfortunately, Annie doesn't seem to see it this way, so I only hope for her daughter's sake that her personality is the "right" one for her mother, lest she be met with judgement or made to feel "wrong" about her own self. Annie's daughter could very well turn out to be a fiesty, passionate, cynical personality type, and still be an amazing kid/human
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