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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Oh No, He Didn't! The Things People Say to Pregnant Women: An iVillage Top 10
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- by iVillage, on Wed Jul 8, 2009 9:22am PDT
We asked iVillagers, "What's the weirdest, rudest or most
oblivious thing anyone has said to you while you were
pregnant?" Some of the responses were
flat-out funny , and some were enough to turn your hair
white—read 'em and weep.
1. A woman at the pool said, "You must be having a girl—they
say that girl babies steal their mother's beauty."
2. When we announced our pregnancy, my father-in-law said,
"It's about time, we were beginning to wonder if you
needed a biology lesson!" We'd been trying for a year, and
I'd been on fertility drugs for six months.
3. Last week the FedEx guy said, "After you, your load is
bigger than mine."
4. A week before I gave birth to my first
baby,
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these two snooty women walked up to me
and asked me to my face, "Why aren't you wearing
maternity clothes? Do you not believe in them?" And then they
walked off laughing at me. I was wearing maternity clothes! They
had just stopped fitting at that point!
5. This old lady at Target looked at me and shook her head. She
said, "You young girls need to see there are other things to
do in the winter, and you won't end up in your situation."
I told her I was in my mid 20s and had been married for 3 years and
that my "situation" was actually a blessing!
6. My sister-in-law told me today that if I go into labor on
Christmas Eve, she will "just have to miss it" because
she has to go to the mall for the sales.
7. My father-in-law said, "Real women don't need pain
medication during labor." I replied, "Real men know when
to keep their big mouths shut."
8. When I was getting out of the shower the other day, my hubby
said I look like a pregnant orangutan! Then he said he didn't
mean it in a bad way! How can you mean that in a good way?
9. On the morning of my 20-week ultrasound (which I was
understandably anxious about), I told a woman at work that I was
going later that day. She proceeded to tell me detail by detail
about her miscarriage 17 years ago.
10. When I was dealing with morning sickness and fatigue, my coworker had
the nerve to say, "I'm not sure I want to be seen with you
the way you look." And last Friday, she told me some days she
wonders if I've bothered to brush my hair, because it looks
like I'm having sex in the parking lot before work!
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Posted by KG Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:24pm PDT
LOL MEN R SO DUMB LOL
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Posted by Giraffe Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:04am PDT
My best friend was about five months pregnant when we were standing in line at a Babies-R-Us so I could buy my future "niece" a cup with her name on it. I held it up in front of her stomach and jokingly asked, "Do you like it, Lex?"
The girl behind the counter, with wide eyes, asked, "YOU'RE pregnant?" My friend gave her an odd look and replied, "Yes... Five months..."
The lady then asked, "How old are you?"
"20..."
"You look like you're in high school."
"Oh."
"Is the dad around?"
My friend proceeds to show off her sparkling engagement ring.
Suddenly the cashier notices another employee was glaring at her - as was I, at this point - and she goes, "What?! She isn't old enough to be pregnant!"
How can be so blatantly rude?
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Posted by Sierra Wed Aug 5, 2009 8:09am PDT
When I called my grandmother to tell her I was pregnant with my first daughter, she asked me if I knew who the father was. Yes, that would be my fiancee, who I'd been living with for the past year.
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Posted by SexyGal Sun Aug 9, 2009 11:20pm PDT
I rang my Dad to tell him I was pregnant. He has only two daughters - and already knew my sister was also pregnant. After I spat out my news his reply was "Who is this?". What I want to know is do I have other sisters I don't know about or has he been shagging young women and thought it could have been one of them LOL.
I have all sorts of issues at seven months pregnant - cause I was fat before I got pregnant. So lots of people are afraid to mention my belly in case it's just I've got fatter. Sometimes they get all nervous looking me up and down and can't seem to decide. I've even had to demand seats on buses and explain that yes, it's a baby bump, so be polite and move!
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Posted by Tat Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:54pm PST
At a party recently a woman walked up to me and asked "Is your pregnancy natural?"
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Posted by Tat Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:55pm PST
I am pregnant with twins and a woman I had just met said "It is a good thing you are enthusiastic, because if I heard I was having twins I would be horrified"
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