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What's the most common question people ask you about your pg?
There's the super obvious, "How are you feeling?" I've also been getting a lot of, "Is this your first baby?" from perfect strangers, which I think is kind of weird. Why do they care? I'm guessing if my answer was yes, the unsolicited advice might come spewing out at that point 
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Re: What's the most common question people ask you about your pg?
When are you due?
Are you excited? (I don't get this one)
How are you feeling?
We get "is this your first" from strangers followed by "what is it, what's his name?"
::eye roll::
"Boy or girl?" and when I tell them it's a boy they always say "I knew it!"
When I'm ordering food the person taking the order often asks what the baby wants. My Starbucks lady always asks if the baby wants whipped cream (and the other day she gave me a venti instead of a grande "because the baby wanted it"). Or if I order dessert they always say "the baby wants dessert!"
Amber
TTC since March '06
MFI, LPD, possible PCOS
3 chem pgs * m/c identical twins at 9w 10.06
IVF w/ICSI #2 - beta - 187! (9dp5dt), beta - 367! (11dp5dt)
IVF w/ICSI #3 - it's a girl!
My IF Blog: Between the Lines
My Parenting Blog: Letters From Your Mama
When are you due?
Boy or girl?
Got any names picked out?
I get these 3 questions from everyone, stranger or not. The only one we don't share is the name.
How are you feeling or how is it going.
And when I answer they tell me "well, just wait. It's going to get worse"
Thanks. You can at least pretend to care about how I'm feeling now since you asked.
it goes like this....
"when are you due?" - me "june"...
"really?" starting at my huge belly - me" it's twins"
"twins? Wow! Do they run in your family?" or "do you know the sex?" or "Were you surprised?"
Top Five:
1.) When are you due / how much longer?
2.) What are you having?
3.) Is this your first?
4.) How are you feeling?
5.) Are you excited?
I'm considering getting wearing a sandwich board that reads:
May 2nd / Don't Know - a boy or a girl / Yes / Fairly Awful / Yes
SAHM to two sweet girls, both born at home; Baby #3 in 2013!
DITTO THIS EXACTLY. Every. single. day.
btw. people don't need to hear it's twins to bring up octomom. I get "are you having eight?" a lot too. I usually say, does it LOOK like I'm having eight?and follow with a look that says their answer best not be yes.
"Do you know what you're having?" Once when a waiter askes me I said, "Uh, not quite yet, give me a few more minutes."
Also, "How much more time do you have?"
I think I give off a "don't talk to me" vibe because I rarely get questioned by strangers (which is fine by me). When they do ask it's usually about when I'm due, and what his name is. I hate that one because we aren't finalizing until after he's born, but we also aren't sharing our options with anyone. People get so damn offended, like it's a personal attack on them that I don't want their opinions on my kid's possible names. MIL keeps trying to "trick us" into telling her his name ... she really doesn't believe that we don't have one picked. So obnoxious.
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Mes Petit Choux
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. ~ Alice
When are you due? ?
The most annoying thing is when people think they have some sort of magic power and can tell if you are having a boy or a girl. ?I have been told several times "oh you have a boy in there." ?
No, I don't, thanks.?
"do you know what you're having?"
and then when I say no...
"What?? Oh, I could never do that, you're crazy, I would HAVE to know."
How are you feeling?
When are you due?
Do you have any names??
How are you feeling?
When are you due?
How far apart will your kids be?
Yeah, my grampa just asked my SIL this. I felt so awful for her; I wanted to slap him!
"What name did you pick?" (In a demanding tone). Not did we pick a name, not what names are we thinking about, but what name did we pick. It was so prying that I felt it was presumptuous. Why the hell would I tell you? (Of course, it may have been because the person asking is a coworker that I can't stand - who had just told me how good it was that we found out the sex in an ultrasound because for both of her pregnancies she was "unable to prepare" because she only had picked out girl names even though she had boys because she "thought they would be girls." Dumba$$).