S and I ventured out today to Plaza Senayan — one of Jakarta’s swankiest malls. We were on a mission to pick up what S explained to me was the bible of baby making, What to expect when you’re expecting. Unfortunately Kinokuniya were all sold out, but there was no shortage of substitutes.
Let’s pause here for a minute. We’re talking about how to have a baby — not how to build a nuclear bomb, program in any computing language designed by microsoft or follow the plot in a single episode of Lost — yet there were more texts dedicated to the very complicated task of breeding then there were to the other three combined…
Having a baby is a perfectly natural thing to do — ok, so women got the short straw and have to put up with all the carrying and that physical pain stuff — but do they really need this many books to know how to do it? After all don’t they just take it all out on men?
Some of the more useful titles included:
Pilates for after pregnancy
What to eat during pregnancy
What to eat after pregnancy
How to be pregnant
How to be pregnant happily
Pregnancy for women (are they serious with a title like this?)
Pregnancy and your body
Pregnancy and your health
And these are all in a single store, and I’m not even getting into the baby name books…
Do a google search and look at the results:
pregnancy books – 29,200,000 results
baby books – 211,200,000 results
The look at somethings that we people obviously do need some help figuring out
jakarta traffic – 1,610,000
who killed jfk – 2,050,000
vegemite vs marmite – 11,400
Do we really need this level of instruction on something that is supposedly as natural as sleeping in on a Sunday?
Probably not, but we bought a couple of books just in case.
You obviously have never been pregnant before Mr! How else will S know that by 29 weeks, only 1 of the 11 kilos you have put on is your baby!! The rest is the baby’s hotel and coconut slices!
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