by Anna Johnson

Created on: June 01, 2008

It is 200 degree's outside you are about nine months pregnant. Walking with elephant cankles and several bags because you still have to do the shopping. When you are pregnant, eating is like air you have to breathe so you have to eat!

Getting to the significant part yes there should be plenty of parking for expecting moms.
It is hard enough just getting to the finish line of having a baby. Can someone just please make it a tad bit easier by allowing these women to have a short walk.

Seriously is this a real issue with the parking for pregnant folks. The pregnant guru's that want to take that walk all the way go ahead. If you do not utilize the spot, I guarantee you another pregnant woman will. When I was pregnant with my second son, he was breach and I had a kidney tube in for nine months. He kicked and pounded me into only being able to come out to go to the store. Let me tell you if there was not designated parking for pregnant women I would have been in a handicap spot. Having a child kicking you in your pelvic area and a tube pressing down on all that is holy is no fun at all.

This is a disability for some and hard enough without making it more difficult by not being considerate to someone that you can see is having a hard time. Now I have upgraded to a handicap because that is what I am with kidney disease. But when I see a women that is clearly struggling and carrying a life. I will move for them why because I have been there and I know it is hard. Some would disagree with me but hey, try being nice sometimes to people it goes a long way!

When I was pregnant, I would have loved someone to say something to me about something as simple as parking. I would have either hit them with the grocery bags or asked them can they roll the cart to the car and put everything in it. All of us are real qualified to exercise a little thing called compassion try having it for people.

You maybe thinking in your mind there is nothing wrong with them they are just pregnant. Take it from me the poster child for looking healthy you truly do not know what is going on with others. To this day, I see people giving me dirty looks for parking in handicap parking. Do I have to explain to them I have a tube placed every three months in my kidney and bladder? That I take a series of medications everyday for the rest of my life and I earned the right to park here. No so why should a pregnant woman not have the same right to just simply park in the front.

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