Pregnant and a Target

There's a good blog on the issue of pregnancy, moms and the inclination of others to try to tell moms-to-be what to do. It's definitely worth a read.
Should pregnant women ...?
by Natasha Chart, Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 10:58:50 PM EST
Should Pregnant Women Eat More Seafood?
So asks a headline in the New York Times, but some similar question is always a perennial favorite. Should pregnant women eat more, eat less, eat something else, have maybe a drink a day as the British do or none as American society would have it, do some kind of exercise or another, lift anything, do too many stairs, or yadda, yadda, yadda.
A woman gets pregnant and she stops being an individual adult in many people's eyes.


Newsday had a similiarly informative piece on the rude and sometimes bizarre questions strangers ask of pregnant women.