A girl I grew up with just found out she's expecting her third (she announced the day she took a pregnancy test). At 7 or 8 weeks she posted a belly shot with the caption "can't hide it anymore. This belly is poppin." Umm nice bloat?
She also ends 80% of her posts with #pregoproblems. I'm tempted to hide her from my newsfeed.
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The woman in the photo looks like she's really happy and I imagine she is very excited to be pregnant and very excited to share her joy with others. I say good for her.
Lol. Our babysitter just told us the other day that she is 5 weeks pregnant. Then she said, "you couldn't tell? I'm not usually THIS BiG!!", pointing to her belly.
The woman in the photo looks like she's really happy and I imagine she is very excited to be pregnant and very excited to share her joy with others. I say good for her.
For the record, I'm ok with early belly pics. I started my weekly photos at week 7. I love comparing my current ones to it.
This. I started taking them for my scrapbook at like 6/7 weeks. But i did not post any on FB until like 20.
A FB friend of mine (old highschool friend) posted photos of the pee stick the day his gf got a BPF. They also started posting belly photos that day too.
Since then he has had many statuses about how he hopes it's a boy. They just found out its a girl, and I laughed a little.
The woman in the photo looks like she's really happy and I imagine she is very excited to be pregnant and very excited to share her joy with others. I say good for her.
For the record, I'm ok with early belly pics. I started my weekly photos at week 7. I love comparing my current ones to it.
Same with me! It also reminds me that I won't always be this big lol. I shared my first photo at 14 weeks bc I was excited!
I started taking pics at 4 wks (for reference) but didn't post them on fb til we announced at 13 wks. Now I've just been updating with a pic every 4 wks.. Partially because I forget, and partially because I find my friend who does it every week is super annoying. I think the belly change looks more obvious with a few wks in between vs every wk
A girl I know from high school posted, "being 4 months pregnant and trying to paint your toenails with this big ole belly isn't easy! But you gotta pamper yourself". This is in addition to twice weekly belly shots since 7 weeks.
Eta- I think I posted my first pic on fb at 17 weeks, I was feeling so excited that you could finally see a little bump and someone else I know said, "you're as big as I was when I was full term!". She got deleted.
I started taking pics at 4 wks (for reference) but didn't post them on fb til we announced at 13 wks. Now I've just been updating with a pic every 4 wks.. Partially because I forget, and partially because I find my friend who does it every week is super annoying. I think the belly change looks more obvious with a few wks in between vs every wk
One of mys students' nanny is pregnant (according to mom she's only like 8/9 weeks) and he asked her for help tying his shoes the other day and she said she couldn't bend over to do it because of her big belly. I think she shit her pants when I bent over and did it myself. The mom told me at pickup that her nanny thought I was insane tying a kids shoes because I was so huge.
The mom told her that I was 34 weeks pregnant and that if she was going to be "incapable" of doing things at 8/9 weeks pregnant and her son's teacher who is 34 weeks pregnant can do it than maybe she needs to reconsider if she wants to continue to nanny 3 small children.
I had a girl pull the same thing a my old job at a shoe store. As soon as the pee stick dried she refused to pick things up off the floor, straighten the bottom shelves, or bend over at all. Then she quit because she thought she shouldn't have to work while she was pregnant. Our manager, who had recently worked up until going into labor, wasn't too pleased.
I'm kind of in between on this subject.....we don't really know her background....well I guess you might but no one else does. She and her husband could have been struggling for years to conceive and now that it's finally happening she maybe can't contain her excitement. I'm not saying that THIS IS DEFINITELY the case in her situation......but having had two losses I know how excited I was just to make it to the 12 week mark and everyone I know was asking for pictures (even though I had nothing to even remotely show until 20 weeks lol). Anyways.....said all that to say that the preggo pics don't really bother me. If you're excited to show your bloat, more power to you I do hate the constant status updates about what hurts and "prego problems", especially that early in pregnancy. From Week 6 - Week 14, I was sicker than a dog. Literally could barely get out of bed some days. But nobody in my facebook world knew about that.
snow527 said:
Eh, 12 weeks isn't too crazy IMO. If that was her 6 week "bump" picture maybe I'd judge a little. ----------------------------------------------quote fail--------------------------------------------
Agree... I took a picture at 10 weeks (but didn't post it on FB!) and another at 13 weeks, and with the comparison, you actually could tell a difference!
I agree I think it's cute that she's excited, but also a little annoying that she thought all of her facebook friends would care...
I've been taking bump photos since 5 weeks. We announced at 13 and I posted that weeks pic but I had a noticeable bump. My first time I didn't post one until 16w and even then it was questionable. I think of she was announcing this way, great, but otherwise I would just skip if we weren't great friends.
I have a girl on FB who isn't married and hasn't been with her bf all that long. She posted about her bfp right away and started the weekly update things that drive me crazy. She lost the baby at 12 weeks. I felt so bad for her and her loss and the fact that she then had to share that awful time with all her FB "friends". This is the number 1 reason I think announcing in the first tri is to early.
I think I agree with both sides on this one! taking pics is totally fine, but I wouldn't share until I had an actual bump. Just looked at my prior FB pics, and I don't have a single 'bump' photo posted. You can see the bump in pics I have up from making Christmas cookies and after, but not really anything prior. I know I snapped few blump pics with my phone but kept them private as a before and after kinda thing
I hate hate hate when pg ladies who aren't very far along act so helpless. I'm working 40+ hours a week, cleaning the house, taking care of the pets, cooking 3 meals a day for me and DH, doing all the shopping alone, etc. and it bugs me when a lady who is 9 weeks along acts like a delicate flower. not to say first tri doesn't have it's challenges, it does, but yea....you can totally still tie your shoes and shave.
@amandapthompson A small part of me died for you. I have dropped a few gloves or random crap at work lately and I just leave it there. I'm a terrible person, I know.
Lol! I understand. As soon as it happened I laid my head down on my desk and may have cried a little bit
Re: Facebook eye roll
She also ends 80% of her posts with #pregoproblems. I'm tempted to hide her from my newsfeed.
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Our babysitter just told us the other day that she is 5 weeks pregnant.
Then she said, "you couldn't tell? I'm not usually THIS BiG!!", pointing to her belly.
Yup. I could ToTaLLy tell... 8-|
Since then he has had many statuses about how he hopes it's a boy. They just found out its a girl, and I laughed a little.
Eta- I think I posted my first pic on fb at 17 weeks, I was feeling so excited that you could finally see a little bump and someone else I know said, "you're as big as I was when I was full term!". She got deleted.
----------------------------------------------quote fail-------------------------------------------- Agree... I took a picture at 10 weeks (but didn't post it on FB!) and another at 13 weeks, and with the comparison, you actually could tell a difference!
I have a girl on FB who isn't married and hasn't been with her bf all that long. She posted about her bfp right away and started the weekly update things that drive me crazy. She lost the baby at 12 weeks. I felt so bad for her and her loss and the fact that she then had to share that awful time with all her FB "friends". This is the number 1 reason I think announcing in the first tri is to early.
Uhm... we know how babies are made. You didn't need to rub it in.
I think I agree with both sides on this one! taking pics is totally fine, but I wouldn't share until I had an actual bump. Just looked at my prior FB pics, and I don't have a single 'bump' photo posted. You can see the bump in pics I have up from making Christmas cookies and after, but not really anything prior. I know I snapped few blump pics with my phone but kept them private as a before and after kinda thing
I hate hate hate when pg ladies who aren't very far along act so helpless. I'm working 40+ hours a week, cleaning the house, taking care of the pets, cooking 3 meals a day for me and DH, doing all the shopping alone, etc. and it bugs me when a lady who is 9 weeks along acts like a delicate flower. not to say first tri doesn't have it's challenges, it does, but yea....you can totally still tie your shoes and shave.
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