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My Due Date: January 12, 2015I have given birth!
Age: 38 years old
Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
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Soy Latina!
By prinder » Posted May. 18, 2014 12:48pm - 244 views - 0 comments
I am a quarter Latina, from birth I think we're expected to be highly emotional creatures - feeding into the stereotype all the more. I laugh about how I can cry at the drop of a hat most days, or how just letting the waterworks run actually helps me feel better about anything and everything that could possibly be bothering me. However tenuous the hold people would argue that I had, some amount of control I did have in my later years. It fools no one, but people get used to putting up a front to those they don't want to worry.
What I'm dealing with right now feels nothing like that. it isn't that I'm crying for no good reason at all, but belief the control I had before I was pregnancy is AWOL (Absent WithOut Leave). If I'm the slightest bit emotionally unstable or insecure, the tears start to build. I'm not going to lie: its going to take some careful manoeuvring to keep myself contained.
And more ick, next week I'm going to need to spend the day at my in-law's place... where I'm likely going to have to listen to people tell me what to do without me asking them for advice. That sort of thing bugs me even on a good day not pregnant. DH tells me I need to remember to smile when I'm on the receiving end of all of this, but I can only imagine succeeding in that by thinking of words that begin with the letter M.
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Soy Latina!
By prinder » Posted May. 18, 2014 12:48pm - 244 views - 0 comments
I am a quarter Latina, from birth I think we're expected to be highly emotional creatures - feeding into the stereotype all the more. I laugh about how I can cry at the drop of a hat most days, or how just letting the waterworks run actually helps me feel better about anything and everything that could possibly be bothering me. However tenuous the hold people would argue that I had, some amount of control I did have in my later years. It fools no one, but people get used to putting up a front to those they don't want to worry.
What I'm dealing with right now feels nothing like that. it isn't that I'm crying for no good reason at all, but belief the control I had before I was pregnancy is AWOL (Absent WithOut Leave). If I'm the slightest bit emotionally unstable or insecure, the tears start to build. I'm not going to lie: its going to take some careful manoeuvring to keep myself contained.
And more ick, next week I'm going to need to spend the day at my in-law's place... where I'm likely going to have to listen to people tell me what to do without me asking them for advice. That sort of thing bugs me even on a good day not pregnant. DH tells me I need to remember to smile when I'm on the receiving end of all of this, but I can only imagine succeeding in that by thinking of words that begin with the letter M.
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