Sarah (Bowman) Brown Pregnant - Baby due March 2016

Star wrote:

julsome wrote:

It makes me really angry to hear anyone say that she should have had an abortion.

Then there is no reason to be angry because no one said she have had an abortion.

It was just said that others have chosen that and someone said they weren't sure what choice they would make.

No one is advising this for others.

This exactly. I don't know what I would have done in the same circumstances which is what my statement on the first post was trying to convey.

I am engaged, have a steady well-paying job, my fiance has a steady job and I have no high level athletic goals in the near future. I have an IUD and if I got pregnant right now, I still don't know whether or not I would have an abortion. It's legal and I'm allowed to ponder that decision in any circumstance.

rojo wrote:

In case you didn't know, the birth control pill is awful for performance. It often results in weight gain, etc.

-Rojo

Yeaaaa.... this isn't true.

First, there is no solid evidence or studies specific to athletes that show the pill causes weight gain. Obviously every medication is going to be individual but I would highly surprised if the pill would cause weight gain in an elite athlete. I'm not an elite but am an avid runner. I've been on the pill for over a decade and I'm the same weight I was in high school. Because I run all the damn time...

Second, the pill offers a lot of benefits to female to runners: Predictable cycles and lessoning to elimination of cramping. Which is why some runners might choose the pill over let's say an IUD which does have the side effect of messing with cycles.

I was referring to this post

Seriously.

"I'm going to be sick" is incredibly naive.

People have abortions to go to law school, medical school, new jobs and even weddings without being pregnant or having a kid. Of course they do so as not to interfere with elite athletic careers they have staked their lives on.

"However, sometimes life has bigger challenges and blessings in store for us. God humbly reminded me that He has plans for my life … and they are good plans."

BARF.

Maybe they didn't say it outright, but I guess the implication was there to me. Definitely its a hard decision and I'm not sure what I would do if I were in her shoes

IUD is pretty much the worst option out there and women should stop considering it. It's incredibly invasive and prone to causing injury.

Steeplechaser07 wrote:

rojo wrote:

In case you didn't know, the birth control pill is awful for performance. It often results in weight gain, etc.

-Rojo

Yeaaaa.... this isn't true.

First, there is no solid evidence or studies specific to athletes that show the pill causes weight gain. Obviously every medication is going to be individual but I would highly surprised if the pill would cause weight gain in an elite athlete. I'm not an elite but am an avid runner. I've been on the pill for over a decade and I'm the same weight I was in high school. Because I run all the damn time...

Second, the pill offers a lot of benefits to female to runners: Predictable cycles and lessoning to elimination of cramping. Which is why some runners might choose the pill over let's say an IUD which does have the side effect of messing with cycles.

Rojo was watching the debates, so he just threw out a random thought as fact. It was in the air last night.

If Sarah had gotten preggers a couple/few months later she could have been the Montano of the 1500 at the trials.

I am surprised to learn that an IUD is still even a thing. The first woman I slept with on a regular basis had one, but that was 1973 (I am old) and it was a horrorshow for her. I won't go into details. But I honestly hadn't heard of anyone using one in a long long time. I had three girlfrfiends near the beginning of this century who used diaphragms, and I thought that was primitive enough. But IUDs? Who's a thunk it?

Also, the "weight gain on the pill" thing is not usually the case.

Shoebacca wrote:

IUD is pretty much the worst option out there and women should stop considering it. It's incredibly invasive and prone to causing injury.

you can't actually be this retarded

Because IUDs have evolved and been improved on since the 1970s. I don't have the copper one (I have the mirena) and have had zero side effects after the first month. It was a no brainer choice for me: have to remember to take a pill everyday at the same time and refill the prescription when its out or have an IUD put in and not think about birth control for 5 years? Yeah easy decision to go with the IUD.

Julsome, I took the "BARF" comment as disgust from the reference to "God having a big plan and blah religious stuff blah blah". I don't think that poster (it's legal and fine) was saying she should have had an abortion. I think the poster was defending the decision if she did or not in reference to the one poster (i'm going to be sick)

Shoebacca wrote:

IUD is pretty much the worst option out there and women should stop considering it. It's incredibly invasive and prone to causing injury.

Yeah, this. There was this thing on facebook which said so, so it must be 100% true.

Oh wait. Did I say a 'thing on facebook'.

Yep, sorry, I'll get my coat.

What heck are we talking about, an athlete announces she's pregnant, congrats is the only thing I can think of to say.

I'd prefer my kid to an Olympic opportunity. Just saying...

Congrats to Sarah.

IUDs are increasingly common. It used to be they wouldn't give them to women who had not had children as there is a serious risk of PID which would likely render them infertile. The risk is still there, but the FDA gave it approval in the past ten years as they just feel it is statistically less of a risk than other types of birth control. As long as you are not at high risk for contracting a STI (ie. unmarried and not in a monogamous relationship), they are a statistically much more reliable form of birth control than others.

Sarah is a little full of herself. I wouldn't put her as "one of the top 1500m runners" in the US. She's been inconsistent

I think her chance at Rio is less than 3% on a good day. So she really didn't sacrifice.

Also the video announcement is narcissistic.

It depends on how many people you think should be included in "one of the." How about eight? She'd be in the eight.

Preggers wrote:

Because IUDs have evolved and been improved on since the 1970s. I don't have the copper one (I have the mirena) and have had zero side effects after the first month. It was a no brainer choice for me: have to remember to take a pill everyday at the same time and refill the prescription when its out or have an IUD put in and not think about birth control for 5 years? Yeah easy decision to go with the IUD.

Julsome, I took the "BARF" comment as disgust from the reference to "God having a big plan and blah religious stuff blah blah". I don't think that poster (it's legal and fine) was saying she should have had an abortion. I think the poster was defending the decision if she did or not in reference to the one poster (i'm going to be sick)

Makes sense, sorry bout that.

It Depends On wrote:

It depends on how many people you think should be included in "one of the." How about eight? She'd be in the eight.

Her last "ranked" year she was No. 9

I think you have Jenny, Rowbury & everyone else. 3-8. Then Brown.

julsome wrote:

Maybe they didn't say it outright, but I guess the implication was there to me. Definitely its a hard decision and I'm not sure what I would do if I were in her shoes

You're really reaching here - give it up. Back to the drawing board to find something a little more legitimate that offends you!

Also, is Sarah Brown delusional? She is not a top American 1500m competitor anymore. Top narcissist, maybe.

I wish her, her family, and her kid-to-be all the best. Just one minor quibble: she wrote

"God humbly reminded me that He has plans for my life … and they are good plans."

God is not humble! He's, like, jealous and angry and stuff, but not humble (or did he quit being jealous and angry in the New Testament? - I forget how that works). He's the Big Puppet-Master in the Sky, and it is us, his puppets, who are supposed to be the humble ones. After all, he can mess with us in all sorts of ways, like causing unplanned pregnancies.

Although, I'm pretty sure she actually meant that God was keeping HER humble, not being humble himself. But I just felt like being pedantic. God will probably punish me by, next time I buy a nice bagel with cream cheese, causing a big pube to appear in it right when I'm in the middle of eating it.

Hey, where'd my pube go!???