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‘‘Faking a Sonogram’’
I am doing my article review on “Faking a Sonogram”: Representations of motherhood on Sex and the City. This article is about how women want to have both a career and motherhood, and how its not as easy as it is portrayed. This article compares real life pregnancy and motherhood, with a fake pregnancy on the show Sex and the City.
Having it All
If you look back over the years, the role of women has changed. In the 1950s women on TV shows were stay at home moms. The dads went to work every day and were the bread winners. Then as we moved into the late 70s and 80s, more women were starting work as well as being mothers. As we moved into the 90s you started to see shows where the mother was just as successful as the father, and still had time to be the mother there children need them to be. However, what these shows failed to show you was that it is a struggle to do both. These shows, for the most part, made it look easy, and extremely possible. Now celebrity moms still look like they are super moms. What needs to be remembered is that these women have many resources that most women don’t. They have assistants, nannies, and more money then any normal working mother. So while it may look like you can have it all, and that it will be easy, the truth of the matter is, it’s very hard.
Timing
Every woman is aware of her biological clock. Many women want to be mothers, and have a career. The main difference in men and women is the biological clock. However, with all the new technology, the clock isn’t ticking as fast as used to. With all the options, such as freezing your eggs, hormones, invetrofrertilization, and surrogates, women now have more time before feeling like they are running out of time. On the show sex in the city, you have one woman who wants children and can’t have them, you have one who doesn’t want children at all, and then you have one who wants children and a career, but her clock is running out of time. For some women, when faced with the fact that they have waited too long, it totally consumes them. The reason so many women take this matter so seriously is because we have been taught that having a child is what makes you a successful woman, when in fact you can be a successful woman without having a child.
Motherhood
Motherhood is something that is something that has been portrayed as something beautiful, enriching, and exciting. Expectant mothers have a glow that is special. Mothers are also expected to be happy about being pregnant and becoming a mother. When a woman doesn’t show that they are happy about being pregnant or becoming a mother, they are looked at like they are an outcast. So why is it that you have to always glow and be happy? Pregnancy isn’t easy. You can be sick, have swelling, and get stretch marks, not to mention raging hormones, what is happy about that? Yes you experience good times also, like the first time you see your child in a sonogram, the first time you hear their heartbeat, or feel them move or kick, but you don’t need to pretend to be happy all the time. When you see pregnant women on a TV show, and they look all happy and giddy and glowing, that’s not reality, its acting. So it is okay to not be happy all the time, just because you are not happy all the time doesn’t mean you are not ready for motherhood. Motherhood is special, and just because you are not shouting from the roof tops, doesn’t mean you are a bad parent.
Changes
After having a baby not only does your life change, but so does your body. Your breasts are bigger, you still have baby weight, and you are tired all the time. So how do you deal with all these changes? Well the average person, eats less and tries to exercise to lose the baby weight, as for the breasts, until your milk dries up there’s not much you can do about that, as for being tired, well you deal with it until you baby starts sleeping through the night. So why is that celebrities seem so be back to normal in as little as three weeks. Well they have personal cooks, trainers, nannies, and access to things that regular people don’t. The next thing that changes is you personal and professional life. While you will still have your career, you may have to sacrifice some time in order to be a parent. However, you can still have a very successful career. As for your personal life, well you will have to make some sacrifices there also. You still need to take time for yourself and hang out with you friends, but you can’t go out every night and party it up. When you make the chose to become a parent, you have to make these sacrifices.
Conclusion
While you have to decide what is right for you, you should really look at all the facts before deciding weather to become a mother or not. Sex and the City actually portrays some pretty accurate accounts of what women struggle with when it comes to motherhood. You have on character who thinks motherhood only takes away from you being able to have a successful career, you have another who thinks you can’t have a career and be a mother, and then you have that on character who shows how to balance it all, being a mother and having a career and personal life. Sometimes shows are more accurate then even they can imagine. So no matter what you chose, know that what ever you do chose is the right chooses for you.