cis men: how do you feel about the idea of being pregnant and pregnancy as a whole?

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i saw an interaction where someone asked if ppl if they would choose to be male or female if they had the chance to reborn choosing their sex. a woman said “id chose male bcs i dont like bleeding every month” and a man answered “the downside is that you will never get to grow a child in your womb”

it made me curious: how do you guys feel imagining yourselfs in a world where cis men get pregnant? dont think too much about the childbirth (lol), i just wanted to know whats the general feeling of cis men under the perspective of them getting pregnant. ill give a little bit of info of how my mom handled pregnancy and another women around me, to help with imaginating a scenario youd never be in:

my mom really liked it when the baby moved around her belly. she said you can actually SEE the belly moving when the baby moves or kicks and said she, personally, found it pretty dope, alien typa thing. she hated sleeping bcs, the bigger the baby got, the less positions she had available. she couldnt lay on her belly of course, but could also not lay on her back, bcs the baby would press her lungs and make her feel out of air, she could only lay on the side and it was pretty uncomfortable. my moms pregnancy was especially chill, she didnt feel much nauseas or pain at all

her friends pregnancy was horrible when it comes to the nauseas. she would vomit on the car going to work, run to the bathrom everytime to vomit during work, and thats just how her life went for 9 months. she said she would never get pregnant again. still, she did in the end have another biological kid. she said after all, she felt a love like never before and wanted to have another one, even under the risk of going through all that again

ive seen women saying they did not feel this love often described by other woman and society in general and actually had a hard time learning to love the baby after born because of huge complications and stress during the pregnancy. they wanted to love it and they knew they should love it, they felt awfully guilty over not loving it, but looking at the baby just gave them awful sensations in the beginning of their motherhood. i imagine there could be many reasons for that, i would guess the baby works as a reminder of how much their lifes will suffer a radical change and absolutely NEVER be the same from now on (which they may not have wanted) and also of all the pain they went through during pregnancy and parturition

pregnancy can be AWFUL but i guess you do feel a kind of love you would never imagine. but each experience is different and i imagine having support changes the whole scenario. i imagine ppl that have a traumatic pregnancy may have a bad pos partum too if they dont have support from loved ones, bad puerperium and all. post partum depression. but i guess it can also be fun to feel your child grow inside of you, knowing its safe and eating well bcs youre eating well to keep it healthy, feeling it kick and actually being together with your baby 100% of the time while it develops. i dont feel like i would especially miss it if i were male, i dont even wanna get pregnant as a female at all. just wondering what kind of perceptions ppl who have been male their entire life would have under the perspective of being pregnant

Comments

  1. Mythnam Avatar

    Nope, no thanks.

  2. Gold_Telephone_7192 Avatar

    If men had to give birth my bloodline ends with me lol. No chance I would go through that.

  3. ilovesundays- Avatar

    I’ll put it this way. I would rather game over myself than go through that.

  4. gdvs Avatar

    It would be great for the pro choice movement. That’s for sure.

  5. nim_opet Avatar

    I don’t like that idea at all

  6. Zyphur009 Avatar

    I’d grow a baby in me that sounds cool

  7. South-Ad-9635 Avatar

    Just as I see raising a child as a lot of work that I don’t want to do – I wouldn’t want to gestate one either.

  8. Hmmletmec Avatar

    Meh.I already pass like 50 million kids through my dick every day.

    Whats one more?

  9. RickyRacer2020 Avatar

    Want kids? Plant eggs.