Biggest Pet Peeve

mplesset23 · March 2011

Since you've become pregnant what is/are your biggest pet peeve(s) lately?

Mine is the unsolicited advice and comments from people...

example:

"You shouldn't drink that 1 cup of coffee or eat that....when you are pregnant"...really are you my DR?

or

"Oh you're having a girl, because you are gaining weight in more than your stomach" Really? I didn't think I looked like I was gaining much weight, but thanks for making me feel like crap!

lizliechti · March 2011

I HEAR YA!

Unwanted advice. Being told you basically look fat. When did that become ok?

Alyssajoy87 · March 2011

Mine is hearing one of my pregnant first-time mom friends try to tell me that the things I'm going through with my pregnancy aren't really that challenging. It was like a slap in the face.

mplesset23 · March 2011

Another one is my friends who have had a kid already that think they know everything about pregnancy, delivery and raising kids.

ajmasl · March 2011

Mine is also crazy advice, like a client of mine recently told me not to cross my legs when sitting b/c it cuts off the circulation and when I bent down to pick up something she said: "oh no, don't do that, you'll squish the baby".... seriously???? that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard

Skibunny07 · March 2011

People (including DH) treating me like I'm disabled. I coordinated a blood drive at work a couple weeks ago (before I was even showing) and I helped the delivery guy bring all of the equipment in the building. Everything was on wheels and we brought it up an elevator and down a hallway. Well when all the nurses found out I was pregnant they wouldn't let me help in the afternoon to bring everything back down. I was so pissed! I could see maybe if I was offering to carry 60 pound boxes up 2 flights of stairs but rolling carts down an elevator? COme on! You guys are nurses you should know better.

itsmevkb · March 2011

Gender disappointment posts.

Gummybear · March 2011

Other pregnant women. The world does not revolve around you because you are with spawn. Get over yourself.

AshleyMF1983 · March 2011

itsmevkb:
Gender disappointment posts.

I was going to say this exact same thing.

NebMom · March 2011

mine is unsolicited advice...from women at work who SMOKED during ALL of their pregnancies...like, really? You think i'm gonna take advice, from YOU?? your kids are all sickly all the time, and you think i'm gonna take parenting advice..Hmm....

bluerevolution9 · March 2011

two things. one - people telling me that me being a vegetarian i am somehow depriving my unborn baby of vital nutrients. vegetarians have healthy babies all the time, get over it!

two - when DH acts like my morning sickness/ tiredness/ cramping/ general discomfort/ inability to sleep/ you name it isn't that big of a deal. like i can just choose to not pay attention to it and 'act' normal. ugg when i was really sick the first few months sometimes he would just get tired of it and be like "just eat something and don't think about" o yea because thats how i will feel better

KAK ;-> · March 2011

AshleyMF1983:

itsmevkb:
Gender disappointment posts.

I was going to say this exact same thing.

I always want to tell them that they only found out the sex of the baby, not the gender. It will take a few years for that to come out.

I guess my gender studies courses stuck. I also tell people who ask me the baby's gender that we don't know yet but that we are having a little girl.

mplesset23 · March 2011

bluerevolution9:

two things. one - people telling me that me being a vegetarian i am somehow depriving my unborn baby of vital nutrients. vegetarians have healthy babies all the time, get over it!

two - when DH acts like my morning sickness/ tiredness/ cramping/ general discomfort/ inability to sleep/ you name it isn't that big of a deal. like i can just choose to not pay attention to it and 'act' normal. ugg when i was really sick the first few months sometimes he would just get tired of it and be like "just eat something and don't think about" o yea because thats how i will feel better

Ugh, my DH was the same way...I'd like to see husbands vomit daily, have constant headaches, backaches, be starving, but too naseous to eat anything all while gaining weight, losing your mind and your sense of balance at the same time. Something tells me they would be complaining wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more

OnPaisleyLane.com · March 2011

People posting ignorant answers or slamming people just because they don't agree with what their going through here on the Bump. (When all that was asked for was an intelligent answer).

I truly have never seen such an immature, self disgracing, classless group of so called "Ladies. This obviously does not go for everyone here, but the few that I haven't blocked, who can actually see this, know who they are...And watch, they'll be the brilliant group who quotes me and responds to this. Priceless!

dotty351 · March 2011

Anytime I mention a problem that I am going through, getting the reponse, "Oh you just wait. It will get so much worse." That's not helpful.

Stellasmom · March 2011

KAK ;->:
AshleyMF1983:

itsmevkb:
Gender disappointment posts.

I was going to say this exact same thing.

I always want to tell them that they only found out the sex of the baby, not the gender. It will take a few years for that to come out.

I guess my gender studies courses stuck. I also tell people who ask me the baby's gender that we don't know yet but that we are having a little girl.

The gender thing drives me crazy too. The u/s tech even wrote "gender" across the screen on the crotch shot during my ultrasound. It took everything i had not to say something. lol.

What is so horrible about saying the SEX of your baby?

laurynfaerie · March 2011

Stellasmom:
KAK ;->:
AshleyMF1983:

itsmevkb:
Gender disappointment posts.

I was going to say this exact same thing.

I always want to tell them that they only found out the sex of the baby, not the gender. It will take a few years for that to come out.

I guess my gender studies courses stuck. I also tell people who ask me the baby's gender that we don't know yet but that we are having a little girl.

The gender thing drives me crazy too. The u/s tech even wrote "gender" across the screen on the crotch shot during my ultrasound. It took everything i had not to say something. lol.

What is so horrible about saying the SEX of your baby?

The ONLY reason it ever occurred to me that gender and sex are 2 different things, is because of my sister's bf. He is a transgendered male But, if it wasn't for the fact that he's around and a part of our lives, I would use the terms interchangably.

Elsker · April 2011

This is my first pregnancy, so I only know what to expect out of labor/delivery by hearing other people's stories. That being said, just because I haven't experienced that kind of pain, doesn't mean I'm not allowed to feel other types of pain up to that point.

If one more person tells me, "Oh, you don't get to complain yet, just wait till you're in labor," I'm going to pinch their head off.

If my toe gets slammed into a door jam, it still hurts. When I get a papercut, that still hurts too, and I just might want a band-aid. And if I want to say "ow" and rub my belly when I get sudden RL pains, I'm allowed to.

MissMommyMac · April 2011

The food police.

cjorge2010 · April 2011

EVERYTIME my supervisor walks into the office in the morning she looks at me now and goes "HEY PREGOOO".....It literally has occurred every morning since I announced my pregnancy. I'm sorry..but I do have a name.

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