'Eating for two' while pregnant is a fraught affair for women. On the food-related anxieties and pressure placed onto pregnant women
For pregnant women, it can feel like every food is suspect, and every meal fraught. Society expects sacrificial motherhood—with moral sanctions for those who fail to comply.Before getting pregnant, I had only a vague and cinematically informed idea of what the whole thing entailed: a test with two lines on it, occasional bouts of vomiting at inopportune moments, some climactic huffing and puffing in a hospital gown, and, of course, the right to demand ice-cream and pickles at 3 in the morning.
Reassurance is hard to come by, since the only thing consistent regarding pregnant women’s diets is inconsistency. But we are exposed to consistently contradictory demands in the process: We are exhorted to “indulge” our cravings, but not to gain too much weight. We are told to “watch what we eat,” but not to fall into compulsive behaviors that could be labeled eating disorders. More than anything else, we are increasingly encouraged to eat “healthy,” but then bombarded with conflicting accounts of what that might look like. Is red wine healthy? Animal fat? Coffee? Kale?.
We are increasingly encouraged to eat ‘healthy,’ but then bombarded with conflicting accounts of what that might look likeA precautionary, or risk-averse, approach always has an imperiled subject at the center of its imagination. Children—as key symbols of innocence and future hope—are hardly unexpected risk bearers. Yet thinking of fetuses as children, imbued with personhood, is a relatively new move.
Minimizing risk isn’t seen as a social obligation … but rather a moral imperative that is placed squarely on the shoulders of the pregnant woman.
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