I had noticed on Free Jinger that Michelle had noted that she was going to the doctor to see why she couldn’t get pregnant.

My first thought was “You are 47 freaking years old! That’s the reason you can’t get pregnant – your reproductive system is shutting down!”

I feel bad for her because her entire life has revolved around being pregnant and producing new children. Now, as she enters menopause or peri-menopause, she has to find a new meaning in life…..

Michelle is a poster child for menopause. Clearly, without it, she’d be having babies into her 80s, leaving a large number of orphans when she finally lets go.

It did occur to me that if she had issues with a prolapsed uterus, it would be death to say so, but covering the ob-gyn visit with blather about babies would disguise it.

What, she’ll have to be actually raising the children she’s been vaginally crapping out in to the world? Naaw, she’ll find a way to get out of that.

I wondered the same thing. WTH is THAT? Does God throw babies out of heaven and hope someone ‘catches’ them?

Like a cold, apparently. *resists urge to make sexually transmitted disease joke*

Her whole identity is “the woman who has all the kids.” If she loses that, she not only loses standing in her community, the TV lights will go away and take all that lovely, lovely money with them.

I keep imagining God with a basket full of babies slingshotting them down to the earth every time she says ‘catch a baby’

I’ve heard the phrase used to mean delivering a baby…but that doesn’t sound like the right interpretation in this context :/

You’d think they have enough money, but that family uses a LOT of resources: electricity, water, heat, air conditioning in that mammoth house. And they spend extra for things like like tater tots and paper plates.

I could imagine that the money goes fast.

I have so many patients that blame their cavities on being pregnant. The enamel of your teeth is the last place the calcium would come from. Osteoporosis doesn’t seem to effect the periodontal health. I am sure they are some very extreme cases but it is not common.

I was imagining God putting them in a trebuchet. It’s like pumpkin slinging!

Wait – that is EXACTLY what she is saying. She said ccould she ‘catch a baby’ if god saw fit to send her one”. Like conception is some sort of cosmic chance. all that i can find is that ist is some archaic phrase used MANY years ago when women has no concept of HOW people got pregnant. Michelle to use that phrase shows she is slipping in the mental area. She is at a FERTILITY clinic, and she is using 17th century superstition-based terminology!

Women used to think they could ‘catch a baby’ (like a disease) if they shared clothes, cosmetics, a chair, a cup, with a pregnant woman, they would ALSO ‘catch’ a baby – like a cold!! OMG! The woman, Michelle, is going bonkers.

Can you imagine if your entire life (or since you were sucked into this cult) that your ENTIRE reason for breathing was to breed, and that was taken away??? No wonder she is going mad. I winder if Jim Bob is looking for a younger brredder now, so that he can continue to fiull his quiver with arrows for Christ? I would NOT doubt this DOGMA (Since it is NOT an actual religion, per say, but a philosophy) would evolve to include multiple wives.

Their 19th child was an emergency delivery due to pre-eclampsia, a condition that becomes more likely for mothers over 35 and multiple gestations (oddly enough, a first pregnancy can also be a risk factor).

My thoughts upon reading the quote included whether or not she’s addicted to pregnancy and wanting one last fix, and if she’s going to consider surrogacy. This was soon followed by disgust-but-not-suprise at who she might get to serve as surrogates.

You know… I’ve heard people call their children “little shits”… just never thought I’d run into anyone who thought that was literal… as for the “catching a baby” thing, well, I’ve always heard that pregnancy epidemics are credited with “something in the water”, I’ve just never found out where they KEEP that water, ’cause I’d have gone bathing in it when I was younger.

Sixteen years without birth control and not even a near miss. Some people, ya know?

When I was referencing ‘ass babies’ and ‘mpreg’ I was pulling from fan fiction. In fan fiction there is a genre called mpreg or man pregnancy. Of course, there is the bit about how does one get the baby out.. LOL. I’m mostly into science fiction.

I did run into lady who called her daughter ‘a little shit’ (not in the kid’s hearing). She did that because in delivery, the staff kept telling her “Push! Push!” She pushed so hard she pooped on the table. She said she was completely mortified that happened. I asked her how the staff responded. She said they were very casual about it, just cleaned it up and kept on telling her to push.

I told her I’m sure that’s happened to other women.

Maybe that’s why some women refer to their kids as little shits too.

I did not get to see “Evolution”. I so should.

And not only could two women have kids (in so many possible ways) but so could two men. Like if you could grow an artificial uterus for one! Or both.

And that bit about technology re-growing limbs… I’m now suddenly seeing a woman being able to grow a penis and scrotum and all the equipment. That would put a new meaning on “grow a pair”.

To me, if one wanted as many children as possible, then multiple wives would make more sense.

And that would probably also cost more, if none of the wives worked. Though if at least half the wives worked, and the other did home stuff, it would help raise the family income.

Edit: When I say worked, I mean working outside the home. I know that running a home (cooking, cleaning) and caring for multiple kids is a lot of work, especially if you believe in homeschooling them.

Miscarriages are common in perimenopausal women. I think she’s just trying to make sure that if she *does* conceive, she can carry it to term. The way she phrased it makes it sound like she is not going to be trying to conceive.

Though why she feels the need to say “catch” rather than “carry to term” is beyond me. I guess it goes with the imagery of God sending out babies from heaven and her “catching” one in her uterus.