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2nd Trimester
SpankylovesSparky
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The craziest things people have said to you.
SpankylovesSparky
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Sometimes people say crazy things...especially when someone is pregnant. Sometimes I believe these people just don't think before they speak, or they might feel the need to offer their unsolicited advice (no matter how unconventional), or maybe they are just plain dumb? (A reason I've accepted.)
For example, I have a relative who has seriously asked me (three times, mind you) to please not have the baby on the same day as my cousin (who is two weeks behind me) because she can't possibly make it to both hospitals. Like I even have a say in the matter?!? "Hold the phone baby, you can't come out yet...Queen Victoria isn't here!" Though I've told her time and again that the baby will come when he's ready and I have no say in the matter she still continues to insist we not have our babies on the same day. Well what else is there to do in the midst of such stupidity but laugh?
I know I'm not the only one who has dealt with such stupidity, so I'm wondering, What are some of the more laughable stupid things people have said to you about your pregnancy/baby??
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Re: The craziest things people have said to you.
Oh dear lord, that person is insane. If they ask you again, be rude. Sometimes it's the only way to get to stupid people. Or tell them that it doesn't matter to you, you don't want them at the hospital.
The only thing I've had is that my boss told me to name my child after her because it's due on her her birthday, LOL.
My MIL says some kooky, crazy things.
Right after I had my IVF and before we had our first HCG check to verify the pregnancy every time I talked to her she said, "you haven't dropped my grandbabies out have you??" Weird....crazy woman.
Now that we're not finding out the sex of the babies she keeps saying, "one of them, at least, better be a girl." I get upset because I feel like my babies will be a disappointment or somehow unwanted if they're both boys. Also, whenever she says that I've just started telling her that if they're both boys it's her son's fault.
My brother's gf said to me about this pregnancy "With your luck it will probably be a girl"..... because having 3 girls is a bad thing?
She already knows that her first baby will be a boy. This is the baby that she has yet to become pregnant with, by my brother who she's been dating on and off for 12 years that she's not even married to.
I think she has bigger issues to worry about than the sex of her non-existant baby.
With my crazy family, my list could go on for days. My favorite though would have to be from my sister (who has a bit of a selfish mentality):
When I called her to tell her I was pregnant in October (which is that same time of year that we announced with DS since we are due on the same day again this time) The first thing she said was "Why do you always announce that you are pregnant right before my birthday EVERY time. Are you trying to steal my thunder?!?!" She then followed up with "Well I guess that I am going to have to wait a while to have kids now because I know that when I am pregnant I am gonna need Mom's undivided attention and now she's gonna be too busy with your baby."....Knowing my sister (and this comment being so typical) I just had to laugh it off.
My other favorite was all of my family saying "Oh my God, I hope you don't get as big as last time!!" Last time they all swore that I was either having twins or a 12 pound baby...and they told me this almost daily. Now, yes I did have a very large belly but, come on!
I would also like to add that DS was not a 12 pound baby. He only weighed 7lbs 3oz actually.
my mother: "Oh I'm so glad you are having a girl, girls are so much more fun to buy things for!"
Because I decided to have a baby for the consumer experience, ya know.
coworker: "Oh I understand waiting a while to tell people you're pregnant, you know I had a coworker at my last job who's baby died in utero at 8 months and they never did figure out why and (insert more horrible story here)."I'm pretty sure that she's the kind of woman who, if you told her you were waiting for biopsy results, would tell you about everyone she knows who died of caner.
My mom did that with DD1 - who ended up being born the day before her birthday. I now never hear the end of how they almost shared a birthday...
A girl at work in the restroom the other day was like "OMG are you pregnant again? Are you ok?! Was this a planned baby??!"
Somebody asked me if I could use a tampon when my water breaks.
Somebody else said that since I don't want the epidural, I should get drunk during labor.
This was not the same person. Really. There are two people this clueless walking around right now.
I just get tired of hearing people tell me "get sleep now because you wont get any once the baby is born"
Umm I understand that I wont sleep as much but I will still get some and it wont last the entire life of my child.
It just gets old.
1) when MH told my MIL, no she will not be ok with you touching her belly or talking to the baby, She proceded to make a big deal every time she came close to me on Christmas. She would say 'Oh, don't want to touch the pregnant lady, wouldn't want her to get upset' or some other nonsense like that.
2) when I told my younger sister that I was seeing a Midwife she said, 'is she, like, trained or whatever?' No, I'm just going to have the neighbor lady come over with a stick and a rock. I can bite down on the stick, and if it still hurts too much, she'll hit me over the head with a rock. WTF?
3) I really didn't think that people did this in real life, but my dad's soon to be wife, keeps calling it her or their baby or she says they're having a baby. Last time I checked, I'm the only one in the fam pushing a baby out of my vag any time soon, and H is the only one that was there at conception, so we are the only ones that can call it our baby.
end rant.
Today, someone I have a very limited professional relationship with, saw me when I was out for lunch and asked when I'd be at another business networking meeting (the only reason I haven't been is scheduling conflicts). So I'm friendly and tell him that I won't be at the next one because I have to go to Toronto for a week for work. He says "Well who am I going to buy a beer for?" so I rub my belly and say, "Not me!!"
He says, "Oh you're pregnant! Congratulations I think.... you're married right?" I said "Oh yeah, I'm married. It was planned. Congratulations are in order." Then he said, "Oh good. I guess it doesn't really matter anymore, but... I wouldn't say congratulations if you weren't married."
I was totally shocked!! It's not like I'm a teenager!
WOW.. You win...
I would have punched him
Oh where to start...
Coworker asked me a few days ago "so, how much weight have you gained so far?", because that is any of her business.
Mother in law has been telling me since I was about 12 weeks along that I "really need to get into maternity clothes and put my normal clothes away until after baby"
Other co-worker was talking about over-population in our area and looked over at me and said "yeah and then we have a pregnant one over here!" because I am apparantly contributing to that problem.
My work had a mini-pool going about if I was having a boy or girl, so on the day of my ultrasound I texted them saying "it's a girl" and everyone wrote back congrats except one lady (same person as the first thing) who wrote back with "aww man, I HATE losing!"
One day I was EXTREMELY busy at work and coworkers felt like chatting, and I was not participating in convo because I was busy, and he turns to me and says "why are you so quiet, is this pregnancy getting to you?".
I clearly work with very special people.....
THIS! I am so sick of people telling me to enjoy my sleep now - ugh!! I get it!!!
When I was still working I had a guy come up to me and tell me he KNEW I was having a girl (I was about 16 weeks). Then he asked me if I intended to breast or bottle feed and then lectured me on the great benefits of breastfeeding, including how he takes his wife's breast milk and puts it on his cuts like it's neosporin and of course breast milk cures cancer. He just kept going on and on and on...
I so badly wanted to look at him and ask how his prostate was doing to see if he'd get the hint of how inappropriate our conversation was to me, but I didn't think my boss would have liked that much.
DD1- 12/26/05 DD2- 4/12/12
Well, when we called my sister in law to tell her it was a boy, her exact response was "oh, that sucks. I was looking forward to buying girl clothes."
And when we called my mother in law to tell her it was a boy, her response was "I bet you dad is happy but really, I was hoping for a girl."
After that, I proceeded to cry for 20 minutes and tell DH exactly what I thought of his family. My blood was boiling, I was so mad.
But I guess the craziest (read:stupidest) thing someone actually said to me was this: I was out to eat at a sushi restaurant with my friends. And I ordered a roll of sushi. And my friend looked at me, and in dead seriousness said "I heard that if you eat sushi when you're pregnant, your baby will be born a hermaphrodite." Yeah...that happened.
I told my personal secretary about my pregnancy (at about 13 weeks) and told her she could start spreading the word among the other secretaries as I didn't want to make a big production out of it (15 middle age women who gossip like middle school girls and will make a huge fuss). So after the word got around, one woman came up to me and asked me, "Was it planned?" Apparently since I didn't make some huge announcement about my personal life in my professional setting, my pregnancy must have been a mistake.
A week or so later, this same woman told me that "You are definitely having a girl...because girls suck the beauty right out of you." Lovely.
I'm actually highly amused by this and have told others about it to see the look of horror on their faces. I feel a lot of sympathy for this woman's DIL, who is due the same time I am and who also "must be having a girl." I have to imagine that she has received that same comment.
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FIL asked me, "Are you going to be one of those fat pregnant women who let their bellys hang out of their clothes?" I told him I was going to wear a tube top.
I've gotten really good at letting things slide.
I get annoyed when men offer advice on pregnancy. Seriously? You're a dude...not carrying a baby, not breastfeeding, nada. This is also why I refuse to have men as gyno's. You don't have the equipment therefore you are not able to comment or advise.
I haven't had a ton of comments yet. My boyfriend's friend has 2 girls and him & his wife keep telling us how badly they want us to have a girl because if we have a boy, they'll "never hear the end of it" that we had a boy on our first try. At first it was friendly banter, now it's getting old and now I'm hoping we have a boy out of spite muahahaha Other than that and dudes trying to give me pregnancy advice, everything else has been mild. So far..