Reply To: Song-Fu 2
I don’t think pregnancy is an impediment to songwriting, and I’m not convinced that it’s a major impediment to recording until late term unless morning sickness is unusually severe. That’s a few months, typically only a few times in one’s life. Lactating women have time between feedings to do other things, and I’d argue that it’s possible (though not necessarily ideal) to write lyrics while nursing. We’ve all had a chance to see JoCo in a bubble, and it’s fairly standard practice to record something in bits and pieces and stitch them all together at the end; it’s not something that requires great contiguous chunks of time.
As a pregnant woman I feel pretty well qualified to say that while the physical state isn’t in and of itself an impediment to pursuing an interest one is passionate about, in this example say, writing and recording a song. However it does change your priorities (not to mention energy level!) and I have found that my interest in external things has waned a bit and I feel that my world has sort of shrunk to the size of my own body. I’m far more content to while away my time just resting and relaxing than before, almost never feel bored, except at work, and find it hard to concentrate on projects like knitting for long.
I’m uncomfortable physically though I’m in the traditionally “easiest” trimester (the second) so I don’t find myself able to sit around for periods of time and I sleep a lot more than before.
I think more about nesting and tidying up my house than really anything else! Of course everyone is different, in pregnancy as well as in general, so other pregnant women might find they still had enough interest and motivation in their hobbies to pursue them in their downtime!
Sure I wasn’t a song writer before, but I was a gamer and I have completely given up all interest in it now. If I were passionate about my song writing I could conceivably find the energy to partake in something like Song Fu if I really wanted to, but I’d probably the process a little too stressful at this time and wouldn’t commit myself to it.
Having said that, you are only pregnant for a couple of years total in ones lifetime if one chooses to bear children, so I don’t think that in itself is going to represent a large sector of the female song-writing community 😛
In short, sure its still physically possible, but one may be less inclined to even try in this “condition” 😛
Rob I like your idea and the lyrics! Has a little JoCo-y feel to it!