Meh. I particularly hate all the pregnancy horror stories. People tell you about their sister/friend/neighbour's aunt's friend who had GD / put on a zillion kg / lost their dh and relish telling you this.

I like to tell my preggers acquaintances "well yeah, I couldn't put him down for a while but that's OK, I just used a sling, and that was way better!" or "hehe, you should have seen my birth, I just couldn't stay on the bed, each time a contraction came I walked through it, didn't make the docs happy but it really helped him come down" and my favourite "see, that's the best thing about birth - your body starts you with a little bit of discomfort and then slowly amps it up - it knows what you can handle."

The women who are treated as invalids just cause they're preggers - goodness, its a condition, not an illness and for most women it's life-threatening. And for those women unfortunatele enough to have complications, there are doctors and hospitals to assist.