Not pregnant, post partum.
Here's the time line: three weeks to give birth, recover from birth, learn to take care of an infant, travel from Hawaii to Seattle, enroll in college, settle in new living space, find a babysitter? attend class--and, you're a teenager in 1961.
not. likely.
Postpartum! I don't like to even think about that.
http://www.whattoexpect.com/first-year/month-by-month/your-body-postpartum-week3.aspx
Read and imagine being a teenager in that condition, getting on a plane with a new born, and sitting for hour after hour.
And then imagine too having to feed baby Obama while traveling. Did she breast feed or use a bottle?
Here's the time line: three weeks to give birth, recover from birth, learn to take care of an infant, travel from Hawaii to Seattle, enroll in college, settle in new living space, find a babysitter? attend class--and, you're a teenager in 1961.
A friend who is a nurse told me that the ob/gyn she was assigned to during the maternity nursing part of her training said teenage mothers were the most difficult patients because they were afraid.
When I first heard the story about Obama's Kenyan birth, I thought there might just be something to it. I knew Polarik's analysis of the internet version of the bc was bunk because I had worked with scanned images and photoshop for many years.
Then I started to remember being pregnant (it was a long time ago) and what it was like those first few weeks after my daughter was born; it was wonderful, physically exhausting, and downright painful.
The birther story began to look highly improbable.