[HPforGrownups] wizard family planning

[Chancie]

No: HPFGUIDX 130200

Chancie:
> >  > OK, granted this question is coming from WAY out in left field,
> >  > but I was wondering, is there any cannon on having babies in
> >  > the WW?
> >
> >  that perhaps they do. Do a witch's spells go awry more often during
> >  THAT TIME OF THE MONTH? Do pregnant witches avoid major 
> > spell castings?
> >
> >
>
> K:  Okay.  I'm gonna so resist the urge to just absolutely lose it.   
> Because you know, in the Muggle world, we women are quite obviously not 
> able to completely function up to par during our periods, and we really 
> shouldn't work at our jobs during our pregnancies.   Right? Right?
>
>
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Chancie: 

I would just like to interject that the second paragraph under my name,
was NOT made by me!  And before you "lose it"  I am a woman myself,
so, please don't think that I started this topic to be sexist or whatever.
So definitely I am not saying anything like that, because I didn't type it.
And no, for the record, I don't think that women shouldn't be able to 
work during pregnancy or any other time for that matter, but if a woman
chooses not to or can't work during her pregnancy (much like I was, due 
to the fact that for the first half of my pregnancy I was vomiting every 5
mins, 
and the last half due to pre-term labor) she shouldn't be seen in as any
less
of a woman than one who can/chooses to. 

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> All that aside, I have always felt that the reproductive issue plays 
> into my theory about the sociopolitical influence of British politics 
> in the series.   The Weasley's with their 7 children  are so abhorred by 
> the "right-thinking" Purebloods, most of whom seem to have 1 or 2 
> children, extrapolating from the fact that we only know of 1 Malfoy, 1 
> Crabbe, 1 Goyle, etc.
>                <<Snip>>
> Katherine

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Chancie:

Interesting thoughts, so is it your thinking that the WW does have birth
control?
Weasley's seem to be only family of that size in the story, what do you
suppose 
they use to "plan" families?  Spells?  Potions?  Any other Ideas?

Chancie~ who hopes she didn't sound rude in her reply, because it was
not meant to be.