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My primary reaction to the symptoms of this pregnancy has been outrage.  I'm shocked, indignant that this is what women have to go through.  What is the point of all this suffering?!  The extent of the suffering seems particularly shocking in my otherwise comfortable and sanitized world.  I live in a society where it's considered cruel to make schoolchildren walk more than a mile to school.  The medieval suffering of pregnancy sticks out like a bleeding eyesore.  It should be a central feature of cultural discource.  Instead, the suffering of pregnant women in our society is treated like a joke.