There is no reason why I would ever be ashamed of being attracted to pregnant women. As a straight man I am programmed to be attracted to females. A pregnant woman is a woman, with an added bonus. There are far worse fetishes out there. Ones that you definitely would need to be ashamed of yourself for partaking in such sickness. This fetish is harmless in my opinion. Anyone who feels shame is thinking about it too much and making a big deal out of nothing.

(February 24, 2024, 7:05 pm)tomostrife The way some of the people with this fetish act embarrasses me.

Agreed. There are a lot of people where the way they behave goes way beyond being a kink or a fetish, if they struggle that much to control their urges then they've got a problem.

I'm ashamed in as much as I wouldn't share it with anyone away from here or a similar community, but that goes for any of my "kinks". It's not something that affects my day-to-day life in any serious way, and I just don't think the people I know need or want to know about it, and I don't want to know about theirs, so I see no reason to share it.

Sort of.  I'm not ashamed of having the fetish, more just worried what someone might think if they found out.

I mean, I've heard horror stories of people leaving or thinking someone is a creep after finding out about someone having breeding or preggo kinks before, so I try to keep it buried IRL.

Otherwise though?  Nah, not ashamed.  Even makes sense from an evolutionary perspective too.  It's the most natural kink you could possibly have.  Though there are some scenarios I'm into that would be questionable to say the least.

I used to be. Definitely still not something I’d share with my friends cause dont need to deal with that but my girlfriend fully knows. She might not know the full extent of how deep I am into this sort of content but understands its something that I really really like. If my friends found out I wouldn’t care and dont think id have a tough time getting them to connect to it.

I eased her into it and explained it from certain angles that I think make it sound more normalized. She never hesitated about it which could just be her but I think anyone could really see it as not a big deal. Seems like a very common fetish and i think most people would understand where you’re coming from.

Used to be, not anymore

All the time. Everyone is always hiding something but in my case I feel like I can never truly be myself hiding this fetish. I realised pretty young that my obsession with pregnancy women (way before puberty) was not commonplace among my peers.

I used to beat myself up a bit about my preggo fetish, but as I said in another thread, as I’m getting older (35 atm), I’m not as worried about it being discovered. For example, a few nurses at work have become pregnant in the last few months, and I will flat-out compliment how they currently look as they round out toward their 2nd to 3rd trimester. 
Here’s a true story: a pregnant nurse I was working with not too long ago was walking a patient. I offered to take over so the nurse could sit back down and continue charting. The nurse said she was fine walking the patient, and the patient joked that the nurse could use the walk. I responded with something like “That’s debatable, as she looks fantastic.” A large smile came across the nurse’s face (capable of making any preggophile melt, especially me), and thanked me for the kind words. I gave the nurse another physical compliment after the conversation, something along the line of, “I said it before and I’ll say it again, you look incredible!” I’m sure if anyone heard me talking during that afternoon, they were probably thinking, “Yep, he’s got a thing for pregnant women.”
These was another pregnant nurse working in our unit, haven’t seen her in a while (float nurse perhaps) but she’s bound to be about 25 or so weeks now. Sexy as hell, really good at her job, and constantly rubbing her belly, especially when you talk face to face with her (words don’t do the description justice, I go full diamond just watching her standing, waddling around the unit, or just talking to her when I work with her).
So anyway, this nurse was feeling down about herself one day. I’m walking by as she’s telling this to another nurse, and right before I walk into a door nearby, I throw a “By the way, you look amazing today,” and walk into where I was going. I’m pretty sure she knows I have a pregnancy fetish by now, based on prior encounters.
So yeah, I’m pretty cool with this fetish.

Everyone has things they are ashamed of, and everyone also has secrets... my biggest secret is my fetish, no one knows about it except 1 person... even my own wife doesn't know about it

I've long since accepted that this is a fetish that I'm likely to have for the rest of my life. It's not something I can change and I'm perfectly comfortable and content with that. Every person out there has something 'quirky' about them and the pregnancy fetish just happens to be mine. 

Am I ashamed to have the fetish? That's a little more tricky to answer. In myself, I can't say I feel ashamed at all. I've always dealt with it privately. I'm also happy to discuss it with you here on this forum and have for a good number of years. I know the majority of people who are members here will at least understand me or at worst, kind-of see where I'm coming from. However, would I discuss this fetish in public? Face to face with someone? Absolutely not. I know it's still quite a 'niche' fetish. Could I perhaps describe it more of embarrassing than shameful? I'd say that would be closer to the mark for me, personally. 

I'm quite happy in managing the fetish in the way that I do - and I've long since accepted that's very likely to be the way it'll always be for me.

why should I? instead pregnancy is not my only fetish, but childbirth as well