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"yuppie kvetching" - over-pampered people in affluent countries whingeing about relatively trivial troubles.

Martha Burke comes to mind.

[Gerish]

I'm sure her intentions are good, but I see alot of whining from her in this article. She should be grateful for her healthy children and it is obvious to me she does not see them as a "gift from God." She also sounds spoiled and seems to wish her life would go back to "normal" when everyone knows that once the kids come along this is just not possible. GET OVER IT!

[Aggie Mama]

I have mixed feelings about this. It is challenging to be a SAHM, and there are days when I just want to walk out the door and not come back. There are days when I look at my A&M degree on the wall and think "what a waste." Then there are days when my children are angels, the planets are in alignment and everyone cleans up after themselves.

With regards to the c-sections: I am to have my 3rd in about 8 weeks. I sure wish I could have had my children "naturally" but I'm so very thankful for the technology that saved my life and that of my children. It's scary as hell to have your abdomen slit open and your arms tied down, but you just have to deal with it.

[chiefqc]

Oh you poor millionaire, you have such a rough life. I suppose there are days when you have to tend to the children all by yourself with the nanny gone for the day.

There was no one forcing you have children, so grow up. You want to whine about something, live in the shoes of the mother on welfare with 6 or 7 children, very little money, a husband out of work and no food.

Be thankfull for what you have and please spare us your whining.

[Paul Atreides]

I wish that the feminazis could make up their minds: are they strong-willed persons, able to fight on the front lines or are they like Naomi Wolf, and her vision of modern woman, a schizo mess unable to even take care of a baby without whining?

[Temple Drake]

good grief -- the manual labor part is the easiest! It's dealing with impossible conflicts that takes its toll. Anyway, I gave birth to four kids in 5 years, all natural births at home -- and believe me, the giving birth part (manual labor, in a sense, though not really "manual" ...)is not the horror show she seems to think. Once I had the first one, I remember thinking how cool it was, not how dreadful!

[mabelkitty]

And may her children find out about this and dump her in a government nursing home.

[Saundra Duffy]

Whatever. All I know is I did the best I could and it wasn't easy. Now - SHUT UP ALREADY.

[nina0113]

What a crybaby. If she doesn't want her kids, she can pack them up & send them to me.

[Billy_bob_bob]

This woman is going to be real surprised when her kids grow up one day and decide that they don't want to have kids. I was raised by a single mother who bitched and bitched and bitched and bitched and bitched about how hard it was to raise kids, and what a horrible burden kids were, on and on and on and on. I was an only child! Imagine if there were two kids to take care of!

I'm 41 now, have no kids, ain't gonna have kids. For some reason I just don't have any desire to. Funny how that works.

[Alouette]

Naomi Wolf can kiss my royal maternal bum. I have 9 children, and while it was far from a cakewalk raising such a large family, it was far from being the horror that spoiled, pampered Naomi whines about. And I don't have the mountains of money that she has!

I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. Especially now, when they are grown up and becoming parents themselves, I thank G-D every day for my wonderful family.

[Utah Girl]

I perused Wolf's book when it first came out a couple of years ago. She's a self-centered whiny person. And I think this article nails it, the things that have most worth in our lives require the most sacrifice. I hope Wolf's children never read her book.