Name: So you're NOT having a baby...
Uploaded: 2017-01-08T14:34:50.000Z
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I've got something to share with you and it's quite personal,

I am infertile, so that means I cannot have children.

You're thinking: "Maybe that's a good thing",

or you're devastated that there'll be no baby

Enh, at first I was devastated, but then I came to terms with it and I figured it was

But there's these other things called other people, and they like a lot to

So this lesson is from me, and I'd also like to put a dedication out to this to Melanie.

You gave me the inspiration for this video.

So, in a normal life process people are born, they get a boyfriend, they get a girlfriend,

they get married, and then-ba, ba, ba, bom-they have a baby.

So, this lesson is entitled: "You Are Not Pregnant."

And this is a really big issue with women around the world.

Every country has different ways of helping or not helping women, so if you're going through

We have a slang term for the word "pregnant", we say "preggers".

So, you might hear somebody say: "Oh my god, my best friend is preggers."

And you say: "Preggers? Is that a person's name?"

We also have slang terms to say: "I have a bun in the oven."

Or: "One in the oven", that means that they are pregnant.

But this is for everyone who is not pregnant.

So, we're going to start with a very, very common term.

And you think: "How could she lose a baby?

They're just... They're babies. How can you lose them?"

They don't mean that they physically misplaced the baby.

It means there was a problem, and the problems might be that somebody...

"Having a miscarriage" means that after a few months into your pregnancy the baby doesn't survive.

We normally say in Canada that after three months of knowing that you're pregnant, three

months is pretty much a safe time to let people know that you're going to have a baby.

Sometimes we'll have a miscarriage after three months, god forbid, but if somebody had a

miscarriage it means that the baby wasn't strong enough to survive and the baby died.

Even more traumatizing than this is if the baby came to term, so maybe you went past

the three months, four months, five months, six months, seven months, and what happens

is you deliver the baby or you have the baby, but the baby's dead.

So the still birth means that the baby survives for the nine weeks up until you're going to

go into labour and have a baby, but something happens and the baby dies.

There are reasons why people cannot have a baby.

As I said, I am infertile, this means that there is something wrong with my eggs and

they're not strong enough to do their magic and their cell reproduction and actually make a baby.

So I had to go to what's called a "fertility clinic".

Now, "infertile" is an adjective, and in slang you can say: "She's barren" or some people

Now, these terms: "barren" and "dried up", you guys must understand that these are slang

and probably not really cool to say to the person who is infertile.

If you want to talk to them about it, cool, but it's better to just say they're infertile.

"Barren" or "dried up" we would make jokes with.

What happens when you go to a fertility clinic is many different things, but the first thing

that they do is they put you on fertility drugs.

Now, these are pills or some kind of drugs that you can take to help you in whatever

There could be a problem with your eggs, there could be a problem with the inside of your

What happens after that if that doesn't work is they will inseminate you, so they will

take a sperm and an egg, and they'll put it inside your body and you will grow a beautiful baby.

Now, for me, I wasn't having any of this.

So I went to a fertility clinic, and they said: "Take these drugs",

and I said: "No thank you", so I don't have any baby Ronnies.

To the extreme, some people get pregnant and they don't want the baby.

Now, millions of people have arguments and wars...

Not wars. Arguments and really, really heated debates over this word called "abortion".

Now, "abortion" means that the mother chooses or somebody chooses to actually not have the

baby, so what they do is they kill the baby.

So people like to give other people their opinion on what they think the pregnant girl

"Abortion is wrong and bad. You should not get an abortion."

Or: "You should get an abortion, that's terrible."

You have to remember that it's your life and you do what you want to do.

If you want to have an abortion, have an abortion.

In slang, you might hear your friends say this who are boys: "She took care of it."

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