Why, TLC?

As I typed this, I realized that these thoughts of mine sound...not very nice.

Let's just preface this by saying, this is just a series of late-night thoughts that popped into my head because of what was on TV. It was a moment of bitterness, and a little sarcasm. Those of you who know me personally won't be surprised by that. I don't always think or feel this way. That said, take this post with a grain of salt.


Last night around midnight, I was washing dishes and listening to the TV in the next room. Why am I doing dishes at midnight, you say? Because that's when I have a chance to do them! Anyway, TLC was on, and the show "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" came on, and for the next half hour all kinds of thoughts about pregnancy ran through my mind. It SEEMS like you would at least know that something was up over the course of 10 months. But I don't know, never been there. And at the end of each "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" episode, everyone is blissfully happy, in awe of how much they love the baby they didn't know they were carrying, who is perfect and healthy and beautiful, even though the unaware mother kept drinking and smoking during her pregnancy. The girl and her boyfriend have since gotten married and can't wait to spend the rest of their lives together as a perfect little family. Or the girl isn't afraid of being a single parent to twins, because of course, the one night stand who got her pregnant is nowhere to be found, but no worries, her mother will take them in and raise them while teen-Mom gets back to partying.

Then I wondered, "Why doesn't TLC make a show called "I Didn't Know I Couldn't Get Pregnant?" about the woman who gets married and thinks that next comes the baby in a baby carriage, but instead gets years of tests, pills, injections, surgeries, trying to, and failing, to get pregnant.

Because no one wants to watch that show, let alone live it.