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What have you used pregnancy to get out of?

ffcrenwifeffcrenwife
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I know we've all done it... used some (real/fake) symptom of pregnancy to get out of doing something we didn't want to do.

Here's mine: After church EVERY Sunday MIL/FIL always go to the same nasty?restaurant?for breakfast. Before I was pregnant I would have looked snobby if I refused to go, but now I just say that the smell of their food makes me sick. (totally fake)

Let me hear yours...?

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  • Alyssajoy87Alyssajoy87 member
    Let me start the list... lifting heavy objects when I was working, mowing the lawn, cleaning (during my first tri- poor DH)...
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  • cara_swinneycara_swinney
    I used it to get out of going on a girl's weekend to Vegas in August. I just can't picture myself by the pool in a maternity tankini, sipping a virgin margarita, watching bikini'd girls stroll past me in Vegas...in AUGUST.
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  • Tonya_GTonya_G member
    Lifting heavy objects- we had to help my parents clean out their basement earlier in the summer, and I didn't have to carry a single box or move furniture like I usually would. It was quite nice, I must say! They're going to be moving in two months, and, yet again, I will be getting out of moving duties! Yay for pregnancy!
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  • ZAngelZAngel member
    Any outside house work -- it's over 100 degrees and my body just can't handle it right now.
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  • mrsrose16mrsrose16

    :popping over:

    I'm a teacher, and I used it to get out of recess duty. I told them it hurt my swollen feet to stand that long at a time :(

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  • ffcrenwifeffcrenwife

    imagecara_swinney:
    I used it to get out of going on a girl's weekend to Vegas in August. I just can't picture myself by the pool in a maternity tankini, sipping a virgin margarita, watching bikini'd girls stroll past me?in Vegas...in AUGUST.

    At first I was like "What???? You turned down a trip to Vegas" but then I started to think about it and you are sooooo right. I would just be so jealous and pissed the whole time at those girls in nearly nothing with fake boobs and no stretch marks. (then I would look at a pic of DS and realize that my less-than perfect body was worth it) ?

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  • Sheeks88Sheeks88
    Pretty much everything! LOL Not at one time, but over the past 19 weeks. I am enjoying it while I can. Soon I will be back to my do it yourself life!Big Smile
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  • FuzzypeachesFuzzypeaches
    Just mowing the lawn...
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  • alicia11780alicia11780

    Cleaning the bathrooms-The chemicals made me feel funny, almost high-like but not with the same good feeling.

    Pulling weeds-I just couldn't bend over anymore.  I felt like I was being suffocated.  Also, both times I have been pregnant in the middle of an AZ summer so it just got too damn hot for me.

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  • finally_mommy2bfinally_mommy2b

    the only things i have gotten out of were a bbq (because any meat-the look, smell or taste of it made me sick)-and i didn't want to get out of that. and cooking-but only because i would be in the middle of cooking something and would run to the br and puke my brains out, so DH had no choice, and after a while he didn't even ask anymore.

     

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  • sheremysheremy
    My husband now picks up all the dog poop when we are out for walks, he also picks up after me and does the dishes. It's not that i won't do any of it, but I love that he is being more helpful now that we are expecting.
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  • SweetNattySweetNatty
    Cleaning the crates out for our two dogs.
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  • ffcrenwifeffcrenwife
    You girls are all so good... I guess I'm the only evil pregnant woman who uses my unborn child as a way out! :)
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  • kimberly.kentkimberly.kent member

    I guess my biggest things are day to day activities. I'm not allowed to do too much so DH, friends and family have become very protective. In the first tri I had to just take it east on a few things. Now DH won't let me life more than 5lbs or bend over too far.

    Also, no more cat box. If I'm not up for something, I just say so and I don't have to do it.

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  • Kingston54Kingston54 member
    Wow I clearly could be getting out of stuff.  I have not done anything differently!  I need to start taking advantage! :)
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  • Mrs.ClashMrs.Clash

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    Wow I clearly could be getting out of stuff.  I have not done anything differently!  I need to start taking advantage! :)

    Yeah me too!  Although my wonderful mother did come over about 2 months ago to paint our bathroom when we unexpectedly had to remodel it and she did come over again this weekend to paint the nursery.  She didn't want me to have to paint (and I hate painting, so who was I to refuse).  Thats pretty much all though.

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  • AngelzkissesAngelzkisses member

    Doing dishes, taking out the trash, going to work (only once), pretty much anything I can get away with.

     I'm going to have to use it sometime this week so I can go sign escrow papers!  I'm not thrilled, but they want to charge us $100 a day for every day we're late closing.  Sometimes buying a house can suck!

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  • CKLee1107CKLee1107
    my big one is outdoor activity in heat...I overheat too easily now so anything outdoors this summer is pretty much easy to get away w/....i work retail in a flooring dept so there are heavy things to move etc that i havent let up on as much as i probably could....honestly, all the people who tell me 'you shouldnt lift that' still dont offer to help unless its lighter objects anyways....i carried a box of paper (full reams) to our dept desk and got yelled at by 2 ppl and rolled eyes from 1 more but no actual offers of help...lol, pathetic...i still load tile and laminate etc but a box of paper, 'oh no!'
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  • vanessaNOV2vanessaNOV2

    well hate to admit it but sometimes getting up and going to church, usually if I don't wanna go I'm pretty tired. Also going to the movies if its a movie I don't want to see.

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  • Katy821Katy821

    My husband used it to get out of a BBQ he didnt really feel like going to, "yeah my wife isnt feeling well (total lie we went out to dinner later that night) so I think we're just going to stay home" It worked.   

    I did use it to get out of work once, but I was really sick like head in the toliet sick. Yuck...But other than that I dont really use it has an excuse to get out of doing things. 

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  • magdusiamagdusia member

    going to the gym.... i told hubby numerous times that i was too sick, but all i was, was just lazy.

    Cooking.. pretty much same excuse

     

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  • cahollandcaholland
    Carrying the laundry up and down the stairs...Also, DH uses me as an excuse all the time. Too funny!
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  • Sheila.ScullySheila.Scully member
    I got my best friend out of a ticket once.  LOL sympathy works and I didn't have to say a thing.  I just stuck my belly out there and looked really uncomfortable (not a stretch really).  She only got a warning.  They started calling my baby their "saving Grace".  BTW we are not calling her Grace.
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  • K-N-SK-N-S
    The one thing i couldn't do cause it would make me gag was changing DS poopie diaper during the first trimester... and now i can stand it but i still have DH do it cuase i MIGHT gag... :)
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  • cerad5cerad5 member
    Lifting patients at work...even the not very heavy ones.
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  • lesrobuslesrobus member

    Now that I am acutally bigger (not huge mind you), but showing reasonably and my feet are swelling at time....my hubby gets me anything I need.  I can get up (and sometime do...I am not completely lazy), but he seems to think that he needs to do it so I let him.  I love him for it b/c he is taking care of me and doing such a great job.  The effort he puts forth is awesome and believe me I do not take it for granted.

    Also, I used the pregnancy for a sick day once...just b/c I was tired and wanted to lay around all day.  I didn't even feel guilty.  :-)

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