The secret language of parents

I've been watching documentaries on birth and breast feeding. I'm finding I have absolutely nothing in common with these people. While it's theoretically interesting to know that a twenty-ish year old pregnant girl has body and self-esteem issues, it really does not add any insight into my life considering I live with a mid-thirties woman who is completely comfortable in her skin and knows what all her parts are supposed to do. That I could not see myself ever even having a conversation with any of the people on those shows.

On the other hand, I meet people in the real world who have kids, or are going to have kids, and we talk about it for ages. It’s not like it’s a secret language between parents. It’s more that everyone has so much stuff to say about conception, pregnancy, birth, kids etc etc that if someone says they're willing to listen, a floodgate opens a whole blatherfull of words come out. Besides, when talking person to person it is far easier to steer the conversation on the interesting parts.

Those parts do seem to be only be of interest of parents or expecting people. I suspect anyone else listening in would only hear baby repeated incessantly with the occasional poo and feed.

On a similar note, certain terms which also happen to be birth-related jargon seem to jump out at me and take their alternate meaning. Things like show and labour. And the song Express Yourself has taken on a whole new meaning.