Posted on 10/15/2011 3:15:01 PM PDT by Cincinna
Carla Bruni keeps publicly asserting how discreet she wants to be about her baby, due any day now. But will she and her husband really be able to resist using their child in what is already an incredible political soap opera?
Carla Bruni, French first lady, multimillionaire supermodel-turned-folk- singer, has found her pregnancy at 43 pretty boring. "Quite frankly, I can't stand it any more. I spend most of my time either sitting down or lying down. I can't drink or smoke any more. I'm in a hurry to get it over with." She thinks the public is pretty bored of it too. "It doesn't interest the French," she said somewhat paradoxically in one of her countless interviews about her bump shortly before she was expected to go into labour. France is indeed already weary of the baby story and the numerous false alerts of the birth that circulate daily on the internet. The Belgian media wrongly announced the birth last week after misinterpreting a joke in a comedy sketch on French radio. Bruni also told a journalist friend she was sorry for the disruption caused to staff by the waiting media circus near the private clinic where she is due to give birth any day now. Bruni has been satirised and mocked for doing more media in the final stages of pregnancy than ever before, while arguing, unconvincingly, that she wants to remain discreet about the baby. There have been carefully staged public appearances: in a designer dress meeting the public in the Elysée garden or handing out scholarships from her charity foundation, or in baggy jumper rushing out for a quick pizza with her husband, President Nicolas Sarkozy. Or briefing journalists that she is reading 17th-century French playwrights with her feet up
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I don’t know how I got on your ping list, but this is the first time you pinged me. Years ago we had a neighbor who got pregnant at 42. She had a beautiful daughter at age 43.
I told another friend about it, and she said “If I found out I was pregnant at 42, I’d shoot myself”. My wife thought one was enough, so that is all we had.
I’m 45, and my 10th child is due in January. It’s no big deal.
Good for you! We were blessed with a beautiful daughter in 1985, and my wife decided to spoil her as a single child. OK, not really. My wife wasn’t exactly a helicopter parent, but a stay at home mom and daughter didn’t get away with anything.
Different families work out in different ways. My main point was that unless you’ve got a heart condition, diabetes, or some other major health problem, pregnancy over 40 is like pregnancy at 20: it might be miserable, it might be easy. My first pregnancy was the worst.
Ms. Bruni would have it easy no matter what her age: she’s not changing diapers, cooking, cleaning, shopping, leading Cub Scouts and a choir, teaching Sunday School, and doing six loads of laundry a day.
I hear you. I remember a lot of large families as a kid, but growing up on a farm, there was always work to be done by kids. I used to milk the cows, feed cattle, sheep and hogs before going to school.
It’s God’s way of preparing women. You don’t mind going through labor because you can’t stand being pregnant anymore!!
You’ve got that right!
Congratulations to you and your beautiful family!
I’m from a farm, myself. Ours was all crops, though, except for chickens and my grandpop’s dogs, which went after the chickens.
I tried to get my husband to move back there to the 19th century, but he’s an electrical engineer and wasn’t having any of it. However, if we have the massive economic collapse, we could produce a lot of food on our suburban house lot, with the labor force we’ve got.
Thank you! I hope Ms. Bruni has a safe delivery and a healthy baby.
Really? 10 children in this day and age? GREAT, really. I’m the eldest of 12 and although one has died, I still consider the rest to be the best friends and support anyone could ever want. We took care of Mom too of course. Blessed children, yours.
Thanks! It’s crowded here, but we’re hoping #2 will go away to college next fall.
Our local homeschool group has a family with 12 children and another with 13.
Thanks for the ping.
I think the comments would be standard for any woman in her last tri-mester. It can’t be comfortable at all. You have lost your body in a few short months. Uncomfortable all the time. Unable to do the things that are routine or normal for you.
When the baby comes she will be relieved and I am sure a good mother.
Sad that they report this trash
agreed. My wife adores all of our children - but in her last month or two, she was not so happy with the pregnancy itself.
Delighted when she held them, wanted them.
but hey, it is uncomfortable and certainly prohibits normal activity for you right down to how you can sleep!
These people are unfairly reporting on statements like she doesn’t want the baby or something. I think it is out of context. Poor thing is just tired and has raging hormones!
Thanks Cincinna. She’s carrying this child to term, and my guess is, as a consequence she’ll help carry Sarkozy to another term in office.
Thanks, Civ
The French blogs are saying Baby Sarko will be good for a 5% bump in the polls, 10% if it’s twins ;•}
At least she stopped smoking and drinking while pregnant -
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