THE MOTHER OF ALL...

ALIEN as ultimate parenting metaphor...

First, this bloody, oddly-shaped thing bursts out of your body whenever it darn well feel like it.

Then there's the period when you can hear its little feet scurrying and you can see it out of the corner of your eye, but its hard to catch.

Its after the cat, too.

Every time you turn around, its unexpectedly bigger.

The only thing to finally do is throw it out of the house to fend for itself and possibly reproduce with others.

Yes, this is what pregnant people think about in the middle of the night when they can't sleep....