Stupid Stuff People Have Said Now You Are Pregnant

nda_roxybabe

Yea, I don't get strangers asking when I'm due. I mean, if you're a stranger the only thing I want to hear out of your mouth is that I look fantastic!

Yiggle09

@nda_roxybabe yes ! Also i had a new xray student today and her first question was how many months then obnoxiously exclaimed how tiny I am for 8 months. I'm sorry your first question should be what's your name what can I do to help what type of pt's are coming down today etc. My internal self is getting very bitchy

Kipperoo

This isn't a stupid comment (as it came from a toddler) but this seems to be the right place to put this...last night, I was picking up DS from daycare and a 3.5 year old boy said "what's this?" (pointing at my belly) and I said "oh that's a baby growing in my belly!", he then pointed at my breasts and said "so those are the tooth fairies up there!"...WTF? I have never heard someone call breasts the tooth fairy. I googled it and it looks like some parents explain breast development by talking about the BOOBIE fairy (gag me), so maybe that was it? But the whole exchange was very bizarre... 

kat81

As long as we're letting child comments into this discussion, I'll say that my 6 yr old has said the following --
"mom, why are you so TIRED all of the time? Why are you ALWAYS so tired?"
and also
"I'm walking like you, mom!" (waddles/shuffles EXTREMELY slowly) <-- as I have SPD, this is like the SPD person on here who got mocked by some random colleague for how she walks now...except that my son is 6 so it was totally excusable, and in that sense NOTHING like the crappy coworker.

Whether I'm pregnant or not, my daughter also likes to say, "you're my big mommy" in the context of saying she's a little girl, DS is a big boy, etc. And my son definitely used to call both me and DH fat...incidentally, while we were both over our ideal/usual weights. But neither of us is overweight or much overweight, so it's easy to shake off. DS has since learned that it's just not a word we should use to describe anyone.

OmegaRose3

Not so much stupid as it was an annoying encounter...So I went to Starbucks with DH and ordered a simple hot latte and the batista looked me up and dowe and then proceeded to ask I'd I wanted to make that decaf, I very curtly said 'Nope' ...I am so beyond sick of people acting like I can't have caffeine.

On the topic of kids...when I was pregnant with DD I was a nanny and the 5yo girl I was watching said I was fat and needed to get a treadmill, when I reminded her that I was pregnant, she then asked me how many babies exactly did I have in there.

kns1988

The coworker that I sit next to, who has 7 kids, asked me what position the baby was in. When I told him head down, he made a joke about how my kid was going to be brain-damaged from being upside down for so long. What the f*ck? 1. that makes no sense. 2. it's not funny. 3. you don't *ever* joke about babies being brain-damaged, especially not to a pregnant woman.

39 more working days, God help me. 

rkstro2

@kns1988 i don't understand why any person would make that joke.  That's awful.  

Yesterday I was having a decent day in spite of looking whale-ish as usual in my monochromatic work get up.  I was walking along at what seemed like a good pace to me and random stranger waiting for an elevator looks at me all sympathetic-like and says "rough day honey?".  WTAF?  I swear I don't walk or look THAT bad! 

kat81

@kns1988 doesn't your coworker realize that the vast majority of babies are head down toward the end and this is a GOOD thing for delivery?!

I have a new one from yesterday. One of my coworkers who I don't think likes me managed to make the "you look so small given your due date" comment that people say is a compliment into an insult. When she heard my due date she said, "you're so small--everyone's going to HATE you." Gee, thanks.

Also, I don't think it should be a compliment (or an insult) to look small or big bump-wise. Everyone just grows differently. My bump was definitely bigger last time for whatever reason (yet all of my bumps grew on track as measured by the doctors/midwives.)

nda_roxybabe

Lady in the elevator at work this morning: "Oh! When are you due?!" Early next month "Oh wow, you still have a whole month to go? *wide eyes to the belly*" Yup........thanks for making me feel like a whale.
I have girls at work who joke that I look like I'm smuggling a basketball or beach ball. I don't mind that, I do look that way and they're being sweet/funny and we have rapport. If you don't know me though, don't say anything. How do you know I'm not carrying twins?

BabyMC517

@nda_roxybabe my mom told me the other day that it looks like I'm carrying a basketball! I was like yep pretty much! Oh, and I almost picked your siggy challenge pic! I thought it was hilarious and I felt bad at the same time! 

nda_roxybabe

@BabyMC517 I actually had yours saved to use! I like the bubblegum though because it seemed springy, haha

pshaortao

I was doing some grocery shopping alone and this cashier was super sweet. He was all I'm so sorry if this comes off as rude or anything, when are you due? He was super awkward and said he was told to never ask pregnant women questions, because a friend of his had asked someone and she wasn't even pregnant. I said I didn't mind as long there weren't follow up comments about how big/small or whatever. A for effort?

WombThereItIs

Oh man this one TSA agent just kept digging a bigger hole yesterday.

(as she looks at the display from the body scanner) "Oh, I see you swallowed a watermelon!"
-awkward silence
"Well that must be a boy right? A girl that big would be..."
-Nope, she's all girl!
-more awkward silence
"Well ma'am you really are just all belly so there's that!"

Maybe we should name my she-ogre Fiona haha. I wasn't even offended because it was too funny how she insisted on continuing with one weird comment after another like it was helping her recover from what she already said. 

Yiggle09

I'm now getting from older female patients the stink eye accompanied with "they let you work in radiation pregnant ". I finally said yes unfortunately they can't give me 9 months off on top of maternity leave. I also told somebody else what else would "they" do with me. What other skills do I have. Ohhh man and this other lady followed it up with you'll be staying home after the baby is born inferring I'd be quitting to be a stay at home mom. I have nothing against sahm but it's not for me so I said no ill be returning after maternity leave just like I did with the other child I have. And again got the stink eye

kat81

WombThereItIs said:

Oh man this one TSA agent just kept digging a bigger hole yesterday.

(as she looks at the display from the body scanner) "Oh, I see you swallowed a watermelon!"
-awkward silence
"Well that must be a boy right? A girl that big would be..."
-Nope, she's all girl!
-more awkward silence
"Well ma'am you really are just all belly so there's that!"

Maybe we should name my she-ogre Fiona haha. I wasn't even offended because it was too funny how she insisted on continuing with one weird comment after another like it was helping her recover from what she already said. 

Boy babies and girl babies are the same size. WTF?!

nda_roxybabe

Huh. I guess my 9.5 lb niece was actually a boy because surely a girl cant be that big??

onebadmotha

Young male coworker: "When are you due?"
Me: "End of May"
Young male coworker: "You should just hang on a little longer and have a Fourth of July baby!"

Me: ...................................

jlonie614

@kayemjay2 WHAT?! sure go ahead and hang on another MONTH so you can have a July baby...smh.  

WombThereItIs

@kayemjay2 just cross your legs until the 4th of July and name the baby 'Murica!

pshaortao

The giraffe has a better chance of not having her baby until the fourth

erinh2005

Yesterday on a walk with DH and DD and a lady gardening stopped to fuss over DD and to chat for wayyy too long but didn't notice my bump until we had started walking away and said "Oh! A boy?" And I said "Nope! It's a baby sister!" And she replied "That's okay."

I know we've had a lot of these but DH made me laugh by saying "It makes absolutely no difference. It's not like we need a strong pair of hands to help with the farm." 

mrsrep123

WombThereItIs said:

@kayemjay2 just cross your legs until the 4th of July and name the baby 'Murica!

@WombThereItIs you got me cracking up over here 

redheeler

Finally had one today! Wasn't all that bad but it's really uncommon for people to comment here so any comment was going to be put here

H needed a new pair of boots so we went out, while the salesman was helping him, I ran into a friend, we were talking about when LO is due and the salesmen just went "oh good, I didn't want to comment, you can never be sure, didn't want to risk offending you" 

I was just like "I swear, I'm not always this fat" 

we we had a little laugh and nothing else was said, I actually kind of enjoy that people are noticing, even a little, I've never had the random comments! Maybe I'll be able to get some good ones now! Everyone I run into that I haven't seen for awhile I still have to blatantly tell, I thought I looked at least a little pregnant, but apparently not :-/

NotAPlaya-JustCrushAlot

I went to a work dinner at Mastro's the other night.  Our waiter was super weird. He asked me how far along I was and when I said 34 weeks, he stared at me blankly and said "How far is that??"  Uhhh... It's 34 weeks.  We ordered a seafood tower and some of the people wanted oysters. I commented that I had never tried them but wanted to and that I didn't think I should while pregnant.  So he brought me a mini oyster, gave me a long lecture about how to eat it, and then was shocked when I didn't want to eat raw shellfish during my pregnancy.  It was so weird.

hp_momma

NotAPlaya-JustCrushAlot said:

I went to a work dinner at Mastro's the other night.  Our waiter was super weird. He asked me how far along I was and when I said 34 weeks, he stared at me blankly and said "How far is that??"  Uhhh... It's 34 weeks.  We ordered a seafood tower and some of the people wanted oysters. I commented that I had never tried them but wanted to and that I didn't think I should while pregnant.  So he brought me a mini oyster, gave me a long lecture about how to eat it, and then was shocked when I didn't want to eat raw shellfish during my pregnancy.  It was so weird.

I don't understand how people can't figure out the whole number of weeks pregnant thing. I've resorted to just telling people how many weeks left I have, they seem to do better with the smaller numbers haha. 

mrsrep123

NotAPlaya-JustCrushAlot said:

I went to a work dinner at Mastro's the other night.  Our waiter was super weird. He asked me how far along I was and when I said 34 weeks, he stared at me blankly and said "How far is that??"  Uhhh... It's 34 weeks.  We ordered a seafood tower and some of the people wanted oysters. I commented that I had never tried them but wanted to and that I didn't think I should while pregnant.  So he brought me a mini oyster, gave me a long lecture about how to eat it, and then was shocked when I didn't want to eat raw shellfish during my pregnancy.  It was so weird.

Ahahaa... some people...

mrsrep123

hp_momma said:

NotAPlaya-JustCrushAlot said:

I went to a work dinner at Mastro's the other night.  Our waiter was super weird. He asked me how far along I was and when I said 34 weeks, he stared at me blankly and said "How far is that??"  Uhhh... It's 34 weeks.  We ordered a seafood tower and some of the people wanted oysters. I commented that I had never tried them but wanted to and that I didn't think I should while pregnant.  So he brought me a mini oyster, gave me a long lecture about how to eat it, and then was shocked when I didn't want to eat raw shellfish during my pregnancy.  It was so weird.

I don't understand how people can't figure out the whole number of weeks pregnant thing. I've resorted to just telling people how many weeks left I have, they seem to do better with the smaller numbers haha. 

Also age in months... I can't wait until DS turns 2 just so I can stop saying these weird-in-between ages like 14 months or 20 months.

ChristinaWild

@mrsrep123 Yes!! So much of this! I've given up and I just started saying "He'll be 2 at the end of July". 

sweaterboots

I am 5'2" with a normal torso and very short legs.  I have always been a heels girl, I feel like I look like a squat toad in flats. Yesterday I was wearing comfy platforms of a very reasonable height (not very high).

Coworker yesterday: "You can NOT wear those shoes anymore."
Me with a sizeable bitchiness in my voice: "Yes, I can."
Coworker:

It was hilarious, I don't think she expected that retort at all, lol. Just because you didn't wear heels pregnant doesn't mean everyone shouldn't!  Mind your own business!

onebadmotha

I just had a woman approach me and say "Not to be rude, but are you pregnant?" I said yes (though I considered saying no, just out of principle. She then said "I thought so, since your face isn't fat!" I mean...thanks? 

starphish18

I had two today. First was a girl (10ish?) at the store who "whispered" loudly to her mom that I was pregnant. Not sure why she felt it was necessary to tell her mom. It was odd.

Second was at work. Co-worker came up and touched my belly (without asking) and said "you'd never know you were pregnant except for this basketball here". Other co-worker chimed in, "you can tell when she walks". Thanks, folks.

hp_momma

A complete stranger (a woman in her 50-60s) at Target today asked me how much weight I've gained during my pregnancy. WTF. Never ever ever ever is it appropriate to ask a woman how much weight she has gained... 

pshaortao

hp_momma said:

A complete stranger (a woman in her 50-60s) at Target today asked me how much weight I've gained during my pregnancy. WTF. Never ever ever ever is it appropriate to ask a woman how much weight she has gained...

Sitdqb

Good question! Why don't you go first?

Ugh.

SKZW

I love that response!

ChristinaWild

I had a (male) coworker ask me yesterday if my doctor had started doing cervix checks yet. I'm not really sure that's anyone's business, but I really don't want to discuss my lady parts with my IT guy, thanks.

ChristinaWild

hp_momma said:

A complete stranger (a woman in her 50-60s) at Target today asked me how much weight I've gained during my pregnancy. WTF. Never ever ever ever is it appropriate to ask a woman how much weight she has gained... 

What? No. Nononononononono.

WombThereItIs

I just remembered this. I very oblivious male coworker of mine asked "so how long did it take you to get pregnant both times and like were you tracking things? What kinds of things?"

I just told him there were lots of things you can pee on. But really, wtf? 

Yiggle09

I have had two male co workers ask me when ill pop. Is this a thing or am I right? You pop when you can finally tell your pregnant right? You don't pop when you give birth. I laughed and said are you likening it to when you pop your cherry but in reverse? I said that to one of them and got this disgusted look no mister you should be getting the disgusted look for that comment. I said I don't believe you pop when you have the baby. Please correct me if I am wrong ladies!

CherryBananas

@Yiggle09 yeah... I've never heard pop used in that way before either. And he gave you a disgusted look? Lol. 

nda_roxybabe

Oh yes, I've been told I look like I'm about to pop. @Yiggle09 you're carrying a bit like me and look like you're smuggling a ball, right? I think they all mean I look so overly inflated I can't possibly hold it any more. Ugh.