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vandelay
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PSA for the socially challenged
vandelay
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"What's that little pooch?" is never an appropriate sentence to speak while staring at someone's stomach. Specifically, below is an example of a conversation you should not have.
Coworker (a female, too): "How's the baby?"
Me: "Great, she's getting so big, etc."
Coworker: [staring at my belly] "What's that?"
Me: [No response, thinking "I know she's not about to ask me what I think she's about to ask me."]
Coworker: "What's that little pooch? Is that another one?"
Me: [unhappily clutching at my waistline and expecting her to be mortified by my response] "No, I guess I'm just fat."
Coworker: [completely unphased] "Oh, well, me too." [Walks off.]
This concludes today's PSA for the socially challenged. Please let me know if anyone has any questions or needs additional clarification.
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Re: PSA for the socially challenged
I really, really wish you had smacked her. It would have been totally justified...
Diagnosed PCOS & MFI-Success with IUI
Seriously! Some people should never be allowed out of their cages.
I would have slapped her.
what a wench
Dumb Ass BIOOOTCH!
This has happened to be quite often, damn c-section flab...last time it happened it was one of my patients who happened to be this literally 450lbs woman, seriously ***, who's the one asking me if I'm pregnant when you are literally 3 times my weight??!!
Baby Beau
TTC #1 for 5 years - Many years, many tears 3 Clomid IUIs all BFN IVF#1 w/ ICSI = BFP!!!! Beta #1 - 157 11dp3dt, Beta #2 - 340 13dp3dt
FET for #2 9/1/11 Beta #1 9dp5dt - 153!!! Beta #2 11dp5dt - 426!!!
Psalm 113:9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.
ugh! Hate that.
I actually do have a pregnant looking belly (even prior to my BFP) for some reason, my fat just stayed there and I know that I look pregnant sometimes. Two different people have asked me about it but I sort of couldn't blame them.
Then, last week (post BFP, with lots of bloating) I ran into one of my favorite clients (schizophrenic, chronically homeless-- waiting outside the liquor store for her boyfriend ; ) and she looked at my stomach and said, "you aren't pregnant again are you?" I quickly said no (and didn't care, because 1) I was pregnant and 2) I truly love this person, she is so sweet and doesn't know any better) and she said "thank God, that would be crazy to have another baby!"
People suck. I had Sam out and about when he was six weeks old, and one of our regular homeless folks (we see a lot of the same people every day) stopped to admire him and ask his name, etc. She then looked at me and said "oh, haven't lost the baby weight yet, huh?"
I was so incensed that I opened my fleece and said "actually, I have" before realizing that (a) she was drunk and (b) probably a little crazy. But I was additionally peeved because she is a really large gal herself. I should have known better than to engage, but some things are just so out there that you can't stop yourself!
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
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