[LMB] there's a word for it OT:

[Agnes Charrel-Berthillier]

Paula Lieberman wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "quietann" <quietann at gmail.com>
> 
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>> On 8/1/06, Patricia A. Swan <zafaran at sff.net> wrote:
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>>> The full on, killing-you-right-now state is called "eclampsia"
>>> and can persist up to 72 hours post birth.  Pre-eclampsia is the
>>
>>  I am a bit surprised that  women who have experienced pre-eclampsia or
>> especially eclampsia don't go right out and get their tubes tied. 
>> (Happened
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> 
> What Azalais said, plus there can be  a LOT of pressure on the woman to 
> continue breeding -anyway-.  There are lots of cultures which values 
> babies, particularly boy babies, far far above the lives of pregnant 
> women--
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> After all (sarcasm) one can always buy another wife....

Some people (male or female) *want* kids beyond hope or reason.
Go out there, the internet is full of them.

http://www.alittlepregnant.com/alittlepregnant/2004/12/my_future_ferti.html
http://www.alittlepregnant.com/alittlepregnant/2005/11/kiss_of_the_spi.html
http://www.alittlepregnant.com/alittlepregnant/2006/03/we_agreed_that_.html
I doubt she is oppressed by her husband, religion or society.

Heck, for an ObBujold, what about Cordelia's choice to go through very 
chancy surgery instead of taking the easy way out? Many people are not 
entirely sane around the subject of reproduction. And, after all, if the 
offspring is viable... hasn't the parent fullfilled a major part of its 
role in life?


Agnes