I am repulsed by pregnancy and breastfeeding

It really freaks me out too. I actually think pregancy is gross, weird, and creepy. Why the hell can't we just lay eggs? For the love of god WHY?

XD yup! I also think its repulsive, except I don't like kids =/

It seems to me that the men commenting on here have NO SAY in this matter!

I find it off putting that there is absolutely no control over this matter. You get pregnant and the hormones take over. Those who say “once it happens your feelings will change” are being controlled by their hormones to want the child. This makes me feel as though I will be brain washed into loving something I never wanted! Now don’t get me wrong I love my boyfriend and I want to have a family with him, but I just can’t get over the sacrifices that I HAVE to make to have a family. It is terrifying to me! I feel like a leper any time I think this, especially when I think of those who want families and can’t, but I just can’t get over how much pregnancy bothers me.

I am repulsed too, but I don't want children.

Yeah i think its nasty too. I never want kids.

Completely normal. Think about it you spend a vast majority of your life completely owing your own body, just you. Then boom overnight you form a sybiotic relationship, go through birth which tbh is so subjective no anecdote or article can completely prepare you for, and then you have a completely dependant sometimes to the point of downright needy little person calling you not by your own name (mum )so you feel like you've lost your identity.
Forget just running out to the corner shop to get a pint of milk, because you can't go anywhere without organising an inventory and packing the whole house into a bag and wheeled contraption. Basically it will take you 45 mins to get ready to go out and do anything, add another 15 mins if the kid decides to shit themselves just as you are trying to get out the door. So you feel a prisoner in your own home. Just to top it all off.

I'm a mother and I like kids (always have), but honestly I hate babies and toddlers. I feel like I'm only putting up with the first 4 years because it's a stage I have to get through before they can wipe their own shitty arse and I can enjoy family holidays and funny conversations.

You can always adopt :) I feel it's actually a more beautiful and rewarding thing to adopt, as you get a child because you WANT one, not because the condom broke.

Pregnancy and childbirth disgust me as well.

But I do want kids. I intend to adopt an older child or two.

@ Divx99

These were girls talking here. Try passing a golfball-sized kidney stone first, then come back and give them some advice. Even if these girls never bear children, many more out there will take their places. I don't think humanity has much to worry about here. And I'm pretty sure they know exactly where they came from.

I feel the same. Child birth literally traumatized me I had some complications. It was the so disgusting and I felt violated all my dignity gone. I literally feel filthy being a woman. Im just not the same person anymore. I know I am a tomboy but society pressures young woman way to much. I love my daughter and she is so beautiful. But never again. The thought of pregnancy gives me extreme anxiety.

Totally normal! Pregnancy is disgusting, its when women turn into cows, yuck!!!

i think everything that has to do with pregnancy and childbirth is beautiful, but on the other hand i gotta say the actual birth is pretty gross, isn't it? i mean i've seen in on tv and really it grossed me out, except when they clean it and then put it on the mothers belly. then they are so cute.
and don't feel guilty or anything for not wanting to breast feed. it is your choice and many mothers choose not to. the bottle is just as good.
i wasn't breast fed myself.

If your grossed out by pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding, THEN you'll definitely be grossed out once the child gets here. They vomit, drool, and shit on themselves, Can ya handle that? I doubt it!

I'm going through this phase as well...unfortunately for me I'm pregnant and can't seem to decide if I want to go through with it or terminate it.

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I voted that it's not normal because, honestly, it goes against the nature of a mammal. While it may not be "normal" I think, however, that it is ok that it's not normal. I personally am utterly disgusted by the thought of having some nutrient-sucking leach inside me, like a parasite, using my body and wreaking havoc on it in the process, then coming out and drying up my nipples from sucking them dry of milk, giving me stretch marks, making me fat and ugly, ruining my marriage, etc. I could go on for days. Are my sentiments normal? I really don't think so. They're quite disturbing if you think about it. Somewhere along the way in my life I became disgusted with the idea. I saw my parents who hated each other, my dad told me that my mom got fat and less attractive after she had me. It's no wonder I'm messed up in this way. Now I'm married to a man who I promised I would keep an open mind with when it comes to having a child. I've tried. Now I'm pregnant without trying, and I'm devastated. I don't want it. I want it out of me. I don't want to take care of some human. I just want it to be my husband and I, forever. My life is over. My privacy will be gone forever. And I'm sick of women telling me how wonderful it is, how I will love being a mother, how my feelings will change, blah, blah, blah, while they look like crap, tired as heck, and have two kids sitting between them and their husband and they don't hold hands with their husband anymore because they're attending to the kids. They tell you one thing and show another. While it's nice for other women to have all the babies their hearts desire, it's not for me, but now I have to have one and I wish I was dead. I wish I never met my husband and I wish he had married a girl who wanted kids. I should have never married anyone. I wish this thing would come out, it will ruin my life forever. I hate this, and I feel like such a terrible person for all these thoughts. But I'm glad to know there are other women who hate the idea of having a kid just as much as me and it makes them want to puke too.

I was never infatuated with the violating process of pregnancy & giving birth, and am repulsed by everything that goes along with it including breastfeeding. Way too modest; Always sought out female gynos and although wanted kids avoided the humility until I knew it would soon be too late. Intentionally had kids at 38 & 42. My first apt. my doc wrote "Maternal Anxiety" when I asked if I could have a C-Section (stating one can choose in Brazil...and this is the US!- lol)and told her how I should nearly be in therapy for my anxiety towards giving birth. Don't be afraid to say NO!!! to the activist nurses who can't wait to get their hands on your breasts - especially you young moms!
One step towards me and I told them..." I am the Anti-Christ of breastfeeding". I was bottle fed; which I didn't know at the time when I gave birth, and I have a superb relationship with my mother and kids etc. - if you're thinking of psychoanalyzing me.....You're not a better parent bc you're a Granola Head!

This post makes me so happy! I always feel like I am the only one who feels this way. At first I thought I felt this way because I was too immature, but the feeling only gets worse. I am actually disgusted by pregnancy and breastfeeding! I don't know why or how this disgust developed, but I can't help it. I don't know if I'll want kids someday, I would really prefer to adopt. I think if society would not pressure women to breastfeed etc., I would feel much more comfortable with having children eventually. I just feel that we have advanced so much as a species and can't help but view breastfeeding as primitive. I would feel as if I would be molesting my child if I were to stick it's mouth on a sensitive part of my body. If I can become aroused by a man foundling me, it feels completely sick and wrong to have a kid do that. I know many people disagree and may call me ignorant, but I am not. I think my reasoning is very rational.

It kind of scares me too but your body is designed for exactly that. You cant hide from it. But i think having a big round belly will look so cute. Unless i get fat in the face lol.

i think pregnancy, childbirth, and breast feeding are absolutely disgusting. but i also don't have children and never will. i'm a woman and i doubt very highly my feelings would change if i were to become pregnant. normal ;)

I don't want children myself. The pregnancy and childbirth doesn't seem that horrible to me - I've had emergency eye surgery, and I'd rather go through childbirth than go through eye surgery again, and the terror of not knowing if I would ever be able to see again. It's the child-raising that really frightens me - I don't think I'll ever be ready to raise a child, and I'm not going to risk having a child as severely disabled as my brother, after seeing everything my parents have gone through.

I can't imagine why it would be unusual to feel as you do. Pregnancy & child birth - for all that can be said about it - can also be hard on women.