Why do women have to do everything?

(caution, if you are pregnant or wish to become pregnant--you may not want to read this!)

First of all, I would like to thank my friend Robert for the inspiration on changing the name of my blog. I had wanted to change it before but didn't really know what to change it to--so Robert thank you!!

Okay now, I've been thinking a lot lately about becoming a mom, and well, just being a woman in general. Men have it so darn easy. As females we start our journey at about 12-13 with the life changing event of menstruation. A monthly reminder of how easy men have it. As we get older it is pretty much our job to make sure that we don't get pregnant unexpectedly, and then once we are ready to get pregnant it is our job to make sure we are "doing it" at the right time of the month so that everything is fertilized properly. NOW--after that we have to grow and carry the baby, then we have to give birth to the baby. For some of us we are the only ones that can feed the baby, and for those of us who chose to (gasp) give our children formula we have to endure breast leakage, and engorged boobs for a week. . .all of this I can handle, being pregnant wasn't bad for me at all, and the giving birth part wasn't so bad either--this brings me to my biggest complaint of all: THE BELLY FULL OF JELLY. Now, above I have described everything that women have to go through in order to partake in the miracle of life, so why on earth do we also have to struggle with the belly full of jelly that comes after the baby is out of our body? It hardly seems fair-men just sit idly by and they don't have to worry about any of this, why do we have to do it all?? There should be a pill that you can take after you give birth that sucks up all of that "loose skin" (that's what i call it, it makes me feel better) that is left after you give birth. No amount of sit ups will ever put you back where you were before. OH AND HERE'S ANOTHER THING--why is it that EVERYTHING ends up in a different place? I had my baby 6 weeks early, so it truly didn't take me long to get back to fighting weight, however, nothing i own fits b/c my body is like a completely different shape now. . .this hardly seems fair. My hips and butt are bigger (yes, this was possible), my belly is flabby, and you know what else--my BOOBS are smaller than they ever were before (again, yes this is possible). YOU MEN HAVE IT EASY. . .you just have NO IDEA!

That being said, I wouldn't trade my new role in life for anything. Camden is just a cooing and a smiling up a storm and it almost makes that belly full of jelly melt away. . .(if it were only that easy!!) I guess you just have to take the good with the bad, I just wish the bad wouldn't mess with my figure! Not that it was perfect before, but at least it was managable. . .

:)