I don't know why I get so annoyed with questions, but every day that I am at work, I have to answer the same questions 28 times...I'm a nurse, and I don't really like sharing anything personal with patients or their families...."when are you due" "is this your first" "what are you having" "do you have any names picked out"... Is anyone else sick of answering these questions over and over again!? Some people even ask about my daycare plans or if I "had an easy pregnancy"...I want to say it's none of your business, but I just have to remember that people mean well....
Re: "when are you due?"
I hate the questions "How are you feeling?" and "How are Mommy and Baby doing today?" For some reason, those two questions grate on my nerves. Like you said, I know people mean well, but I have decided that I will never ask a pregnant lady those questions ever again.
I like when people ask when I'm due. Simple answer. I enjoy the attention. "How are you feeling?" is just polite, IMO. I usually follow up with, "How are YOU?" and try to deflect some of the attention.
I don't like more probing questions like "how much weight have you gained?". And we're not sharing the names we've picked until the end that that gets sort of awkward when I repond, "oh we're tossing around a few," and they continue to press me for details.
I don't like when strangers ask what we're naming him (after I say he's a boy).
1.) We've had the name picked out pretty much the day after we found out it's a boy but we're not telling anyone til he's born
2.) You're a stranger, you don't necessarily know what my name and I know you don't even know what DH's name is.
So I respond that we have a few picked out but haven't settled on one, luckily I haven't been asked what the few are....yet anyways.
BFP #1 on cycle 19, 6/13/09, blighted ovum discovered on 8/3/09
BFP #2 3/1/10 yay for seeing the baby and seeing hb at 6w! Found at on 4/26/10 that the baby had stopped growing at 7w
BFP #3 11/19/11
Baby Boy Bruce born 7/21/12
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This. We're public property. I don't mind questions like these. What I mind is when people take it a step farther wtth, "Wow, you're going to be busy with two little ones." "Are you planning to keep working?" "Have you had ___?" fill in the blank with whatever lousy pregnancy symptom or "How much have you gained?"
I work in a hospital too, so I am in contact with patients and families all day too.
I get asked all those questions, but I really don't mind. The one that makes me feel weird is when they ask when I due and then say how I don't look that far along or I am small. I never really know what to say back.
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