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Golfing When Pregnant · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mama. Dear mama, can you even imagine
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  playing golf seven months pregnant? Well, let's ask our American mama, mama,
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  and joining us now our American mama, Terry Netterville. Okay, of
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  the people sitting in this room, there's only one of us who has actually
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  ever been seven months pregnant. And you've been seven months pregnant three times?
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  Uh huh. Okay, do you ever been playing golf when you're seven months
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  pregnant? I've never played golf, but okay, I would have played tennis.
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  I worked out all the way through all three of my pregnancy. I
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  walked, yes, I jogged until I walked, and I played tennis.
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  And I swam okay, every day swimming, I understand. Yeah. But
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  any Olsen is a professional golfer. Yes, and this week she is playing
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  in the US Women's Open, and she's seven months pregnant. I'm so proud
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  and I'm so impressed. You feel, you know, if you feel good,
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  if you feel like you can do it. And she is a competitor
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  rarely clearly. And sometimes you feel strong when you've got that baby inside of
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  you. Okay, sometimes you feel tired, but I feel like that this
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  is part of her purpose, Like this is one of her goals. This
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  is something that she's wanted to do. Serena Williams also played tennis all the
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  way through, you know, until like the last month or two, and
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  I think that it's I think there's a higher purpose than just her wanting to
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  play this tournament. I think she's also proven a point. She feels good,
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  she feels strong, so why not. It doesn't lessen her it doesn't
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  lessen her abilities. And it is golf, right, So she feels like
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  that this is something that she wants to do, and I think it is
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  actually an inspiration, right. And yes, golf is absolutely a sport and
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  she has to In professional golf, you can't read the cart. You gotta
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  walk the whole course. So she's got to walk eighteen holes walking for two,
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  right. But it's not like she's gonna get tackled, you know,
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  It's not like it's a contact sport. I think that might be different talking
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  about ball or soccer, volleyball. I think I think that might be a
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  little bit different. Not to take away from the achievement of playing golf,
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  because I don't know about you, but I have played golf and after eighteen
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  rounds, I'm tired. Yeah, I'm sure she will be. She said
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  that she had to change some of her golfing mechanics because her get around the
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  stomach anymore as well. Yeah, but the fact that she has done that,
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  I just feel like there's You're gonna see more women that are inspired by
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  stories like this, because a lot of times we tend to use that excuse.
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  You know, I'll talk to women all the time who are pregnant,
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  and in fact, my nephews his girlfriend just had a baby and she was
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  talking about how tired she was, and she was so grateful she didn't have
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  to go through the whole summer and all that. You do get tired.
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  Sometimes we lean on that. Sometimes we're able to say I remember when because
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  I was pregnant. Each one of my are born in August, so were
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  many times I went the hottest months of the entire year pregnant, and so
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  a lot of times, like if we were doing something, I was like,
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  Okay, I'm just so worn out, whereas something like this you're like,
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  okay, yeah. It's kind of a mindset too. If you have
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  a healthy pregnancy and all things are going according to plan, right, because
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  there are some people who cannot do, you know, the bedridden or whatever.
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  I've had friends who were bedridden like four months. I have to,
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  I have to. So she's in a situation where she can, and I
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  feel like that that is just going to inspire people. I think that's part
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  of her story. She'll be able to She even said, I'll be able
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  to share this forever and my child We'll get to know that they were right
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  there with me and during this tournament and watch her win. What would people
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  do? Watch her win this thing, and people would be absolutely amazed because
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  she has a stump, she has a child inside of her. Now,
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  I would argue this is one of those reasons why men have no business in
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  women's sports, right because men won't ever be pregnant. They just won't never
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  right. There's just there's just differences that men aren't going to have to go
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  through, won't understand while an experience, No man's gonna change this. The
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  only reason why a man would ever have to change a swing because the stomach
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  has gotten in the way, it is because that man's been drinking too many
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  beers that are just aging. They just get a little bit bigger around the
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  middle. Yeah, you're so right about that. It's, um, just
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  another example. And why are we afraid to say that sort of thing?
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  Why in this world and then in this climate, are we afraid to say
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  men, you can't have a baby? You know, because you do.
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  You see these people on the left, normally they're on the left and usually
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  the transgender men and women who come out and say you can't say that.
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  You can say that biological women, but you can't say transgender men. I
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  mean transgender women cannot have babies. But they can't they I mean transgender and
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  I always get that mixed up. But those women who have transitioned in demand,
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  they say that these are men who have babies. As you see what
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  I'm saying. Yeah, and um, but we're talking about biological women and
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  biological men. No, biological men can never have a baby. Yeah,
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  I'm just I think this is fascinating. Again. I think this weekend I'll
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  be rooting for Amy Olsen. Hope she has a great tournament, and um,
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  what a great story, I think. Yeah, I really hope a
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  lot of people get inspired by this. If you like to ask our American
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