Well, the sheep shearing is part of that process, ennit? And requires bending and sheep wrasslin and all that good stuff.

If you want to look at it from a sociological viewpoint, it's someone telling the lass that she's not going to the shearing, or the sharing, or any other social gathering, mostly cause people will talk about her shameful condition. Pregnant women always have done whatever physical work they needed to do, it's not like they're not capable. And there's all kinds of tasks needing doing at any such get-together, some more physically strenuous than others.

Willie-O