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<p>She does not immediately come to mind when I think of an advocate of Pro-Life( perhaps they have investments in Las Vegas wedding chapels?)</p>
<p>Nowhere in the article does it say she gave permission for this…the opposite is even implied when it talks about using pirated video as a source, right???</p>
<p>Surely she must have given permission, though.
Oh, my.</p>
<p>Did you read the quote that they were celebrating the “bravery of her decision” to give birth?? Since when is someone “brave” to have a baby? Her pregnancy was NOT an accident where she decided to go through with it, but she WANTED a baby from day one…widely known. </p>
<p>(I guess I was “brave” to have children! LOL)</p>
<p>Soozie:</p>
<p>Aren’t we all women brave and strong as in Lake Wobegone? :)</p>
<p>That sculpture is beyond tacky and exploitative.</p>
<p>Think you are all brave. </p>
<p>Widely held among guys that if the males gave birth we would be a world full of single child families.</p>
<p>creepy.</p>
<p>Is this the same icon “placing family before career” that also was driving around with a baby on her lap? </p>
<p>And there is also that virtuous pole dancing thing…</p>
<p>m&sdad:</p>
<p>Single child families? I would have thought no child! I once saw a guy pass out from having a needle stuck into his vein. 
That was when I was having to have blood tests every week owing to pregnancy-related concerns.</p>
<p>Marite, yeah the sculpture is beyond tacky and exploitive! </p>
<p>M&SDad, yeah, us women are brave to do the birth experience, that I will agree on (and that guys might never handle going through THAT…let alone that most of us were willing to go through it more than once, lol) but that aside, the “braveness” refered to in the article was that she was brave to HAVE children, not just birth 'em. I guess we could argue we are all brave to do the child rearing thing, but the way they put it, was like she was some unusual woman to actually HAVE the child and this was not a case of having the child vs. an abortion but she WANTED babies! Badly, in fact. I don’t, uh, see her as the image of the “brave woman”!</p>
<p>I would think macho men would think they are tough enough to gut it out with a first pregnanacy. After the experience, it would be burned in their memory.</p>
<p>I remember well the 20 hours of labor followed by a c-section with our first.</p>
<p>Felt completely useless, that is, until I got in front of W’s focal point. Then I was worse than useless, and incurred her wrath…</p>
<p>Still feels like only yesterday.</p>
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This brought back a funny memory - when I was in labor with our first, a young nurse came in to ask my husband for a blood sample for a hospital study. He immediately (and adamantly) refused because “I don’t like needles.” Excuse me? Would you like to try this from my perspective?</p>
<p>What made it funnier was that he was a resident at that very hospital … The nurse gave me a look that said, “I’m glad he’s yours, honey.”</p>
<p>marite - “HIS vein” ?? I nearly passed out watching my wife’s amnio!</p>
<p>Frazzled:</p>
<p>Lol! And to think I resisted my parents’ urging that I study medicine on the grounds that I was squeamish!
I was so elated and so full of adrenaline after my first that I could not wait to get home. Once there, I started on a major cleanup (baby had come a bit early). Not a good idea.
Within a few weeks, I had forgotten all about the pain. I was too busy trying to get some sleep!</p>
<p>Don’t you sometimes feel as if you’re still trying to catch up on the sleep you missed when your kids were young? Sometimes I think the sleep deprivation is the “brave” part.</p>
<p>NJres:</p>
<p>There you are then! :)</p>
<p>I can’t even think about when my D was young too painful- that is the only reason why I can think of to have kids young- it is easier to get by on little sleep</p>
<p>But didn’t Ms Spears have a c-section?</p>
<p>Wow, so now NY is celebrating white trash? There have been millions of women, even famous women, who put their career on hold to take care of their family. Take Michelle Branch for instance. </p>
<p>I guess all of the 14-17 yr olds around here who are in the ER should also get a monument. After all, they were “brave” enough to deliver too, right? </p>
<p>I mean, first of all, the sculpture looks hideous (i’d hate to see directly behind … is there a baby coming out??) second of all, why would they choose someone who’s been seen holding her baby maybe twice since he’s been born? </p>
<p>And is that a <em>bearskin rug</em> she’s having the baby on . … PETA will be all over her. </p>
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And she DID have a C-section … . what a joke</p>
<p>Um, what the )(*%# position is she in to give birth, what does that statue look like from the back side, its really gross, to be blunt</p>
<p>Brave? Sure giving birth is hard, but hey, they act like she is special, not that she has a really tacky husband, who already had kids, and that her husband’s girlfriend was still pregnant when they got to together, and she smokes while she is pregnant, and doesn’t put her kid in a car seat</p>
<p>Guess its the giving birth that is important, not the taking care of the kid before or after</p>
<p>Egad</p>
<p>Citysgirlmom…your post is making me laugh at the irony of it all, particularly the part about “its the giving birth that is important, not the taking care of the kid before or after.” </p>
<p>and really…I have never heard of giving birth in that position! This almost seems to be a sexual model, not a birthing sculpture! </p>
<p>However, you guys, let’s not poo poo the C section bit, not really fair. My first baby, I was in labor for 26 hours. The nursing staff that was on duty when I entered, came back for their next shift 24 hours later and I was STILL in labor. After 26 hours of natural birthing, I did end up with a C section. So, um, no, this was not a piece of cake! Second child was natural childbirth but I would not call the first one easier by a long shot.</p>
<p>I have had both- a crash c-section at 30 weeks( without any labor) and a VBAC at term.
Even though the labor was almost three days long ( no I did not have a dr- she was on MATERNITY leave!- and the cycle of residents didn’t think to give me something to make contractions more efficent)after birth recovery was very fast- recovery from a section, especially considering that I didn’t have to pick up or care for my baby ( she was in the hospital) was much slower.</p>
<p>There is a “pole dancing Britney?” why am I not surprised
*The artist admits to using references that include the wax figure of a pole-dancing Britney at Las Vegas’ Madame Tussauds and ‘Britney wigs’ characterizing various hairstyles of the pop-princess from a Los Angeles hairstylist. And according to gallery co-director, David Kesting, the artist studied a bearskin rug from Canada to convey the commemoration of the traditional bearskin rug baby picture." *</p>
<p>I know C-sections aren’t exatly a piece of cake either, but the way she talked about it:</p>
<p>{I don’t want to go through the pain. My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she’s ever gone through in her entire life," Spears said. “If [a C-section] doesn’t happen, I’ll be like, 'Epidural, please!”}</p>
<p>Why should we be celebrating her, of all mothers? I dont’ even know if she tried to give birth the normal way . . . I agree CGM, completely looks more of a pornographic statue than something meaningful.</p>