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Crazy/Funny things people have said to you

saltedcaramel518saltedcaramel518 member
in May 2016 Moms
We all know pregnancy leads people in our lives (and strangers) to solicit advice/comments they wouldn't say otherwise.

I announced at work last week via cookies in the break room and our announcement card. I'm fairly new at my job (6 months) and don't know everyone that well yet. A lady I barely know (as in, we've maybe said "Good morning" to each other twice) that works on a different department came up to me and said, "Oh wow! I didn't even know you were trying to get pregnant!" Hmmm... I'll send out a PSA next time?

What's something funny/crazy that's been said to you since you've announced your pregnancy?
Married: May 2012
DS1: May 2016
DS2: Jan 2019
Baby #3 EDD: 6/18/24


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  • emilyj77emilyj77 member
    I just told my boss yesterday and told him to keep it a secret since I'm not telling the rest of the office until next week. Well then just 10 minutes ago he stands in my doorway and quietly asks "When will you start to show?". What?!?! Why on earth is he thinking about that? I responded everyone is different, and I'll probably start to show when I stop wearing clothes that try to hide it. And please, let's continue this conversation with you half standing in the hallway and my office where plenty of people can walk by and hear you. UGH!

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  • mrstmoosemrstmoose member
    At our pictures on Friday, our photographer asked us how long we had been trying. I told her 3 months. It's an invasive question but I will give her a pass since she is a family friend. And she went on to tell us it took her 7 years to get pregnant after she had her first. Uhhh, thanks for telling me? 

    My boss (who's female) asked around the 7-8 week mark if I was sleeping well. I told her no, not really and then she proceeded to tell me that's the baby getting me ready to stay up at night. What? The baby was like 1/2 an inch long at that point, no it's not keeping me up at night. 
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  • vinerievinerie member
    My MIL has given me exactly one piece of advice: Listen to classical music as it helps brain development. Nothing about taking care of myself, eating, or anything else. 

    I actually looked it up! There is no evidence, but I still listen to NPR during the day (when they often play classical music) when I'm in the car because I figure it can't hurt...
    Me: 38; DH: 41
    DS: Born 5-17-16 

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  • dsmith211dsmith211 member
    I had my step SIL come up to me while she was visibly intoxicated, tell me to stand still while she felt up my belly, and say 'You're having a girl. I'm never wrong. I've guessed for 5 people now and I was right every time.' :|
    As far as I know you are not clairvoyant, nor a human ultrasound machine. Your guesses are just guesses and you've happened to be lucky. I honestly hope she's wrong, bc it would just be creepy. I won't know till the end of December though.

    Same person also made the comment that baby bumps were a turn on to husbands or significant others... To her husband, my step brother... With DH standing right there and my dad also in the room. Needless to say everyone very awkwardly left the room.

    I am making a very conscious effort to avoid this person at family gatherings for the foreseeable future.

    Besides this I've also gotten the 'You're crazy and going to get transferred to a hospital for an epidural' look/speech from several people when I tell people I'm having the baby at a birthing center. On the plus side... My step mother is very excited about the whole thing and thinks it's really cool. So at least on that front I have a few cheerleaders as well.
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  • gamommyx3gamommyx3 member
    I got shamed at the grocery store for having a baby out of wedlock... I've been married 4 years but can't get my wedding ring on my sausage fingers anymore.... Not that it should matter anyway, really not the cashiers business. We are enjoying the free groceries though.
    WOW.
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  • TunieBeeTunieBee member
    kbrands7 said:

    I've had a few mild-head shakers this time so far.


     When I announced at work, our secretary said, "Congratulations, but you;re the third one for this year. Y'all need to start signing up on a googledoc or something. One maternity leave per year seems about right." The other two teachers are both due in February...and because we're a high tech school, our staff is mostly under 40. Expect a lot of people to be starting families. We just can't all take turns.

    Since I'm finally showing with a little round bump, yesterday, a male student looked right at it and, jumping back a little, said, "Woah! Is that the baby in there? That's a little weird." Umm...thanks.

    So far, things have been not too bad. Last time, because I got seriously huge by the third trimester I had so many funny and borderline rude things said to me-- like a student asking if I was birthing a toddler. 
    ETA: Last time too, I had an older, new teacher at our school ask me if I had lost my mucus plug yet when I was near the end of my pregnancy. We weren't really that close, I hadn't been talking about the pregnancy, and it's a pretty invasive question. 
    "Birthing a toddler" lol




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  • valerie4786valerie4786 member
    When I told my dad and stepmom, my stepmom responded with the usual congrats, etc but also said "I was just thinking how skinny you look! You'll grow into it." Then when she watched the video that we recorded of telling them she was like "Oh my gosh, I can't believe I said that!" and laughed at herself. It didn't phase me, I thought it was pretty funny!
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  • valerie4786valerie4786 member
    doozer1345 said:

    "OMG you're vagina is going to be like a black hole and you're quickly going to have meat curtains down there." - Coworker

    What! Who says that!?
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  • nerdymama15nerdymama15 member
    I have no had any yet, other than my neighbor giving us this weird look when we told her we thought we had found a day care.  She was mortified that I was not going to keep the baby at home since I work from home.  I was sitting there thinking, are you effing crazy?  I'd never get any work done!


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    • BFP: 01/25/2015
    • EDD: 09/28/2015
    • Incomplete MC: 02/28/2015

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    • BFP: 09/11/2015
    • EDD: 05/25/2016
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    04/15/2016



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  • amscapeamscape member
    I told 2 coworkers who I've only known since Sept as they're new teachers. The 40+ year old male immediately wanted to know my birthing plan and if it will be natural. Dude?! I barely know you! Also, that's creepy coming from him.
    So far that's it though...
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  • BabyBliss2012BabyBliss2012 member
    valerie4786 said:

    doozer1345 said:

    "OMG you're vagina is going to be like a black hole and you're quickly going to have meat curtains down there." - Coworker

    What! Who says that!?
    OMG that is bad!
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  • Kennedy0830Kennedy0830 member
    "I can tell it's a girl by the way you are carrying." - by the lady doing my toes in the nail salon when I was barely 12 weeks and barely showing. Ugh.
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  • and_peggyand_peggy member
    edited November 2015
    I had an 8th grade girl come up to me at church on Sunday to tell me she heard I was pregnant and congratulations. And then proceeded to tell me she could tell I was pregnant before I even announced. Would have been okay with that except:
    A.) Still not showing at 15 weeks
    B.) Hadn't seen her since before I was pregnant.

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  • TheThornBirdTheThornBird member
    dsmith211 said:
    Besides this I've also gotten the 'You're crazy and going to get transferred to a hospital for an epidural' look/speech from several people when I tell people I'm having the baby at a birthing center.

    Ugh, I'm getting that, too. I hate, hate, HATE hospitals and I'm pretty tough (once walked around with a ruptured appendix for a week because I hate doctors that much, ha). Plus I'm spending the next 6 months preparing for this, so I'm pretty confident I can do it. 

    My sister told me that when women give birth, their butthole gets HUGE. Also said all the maternity nurses she knows laugh afterwards over how big they got. Uhhhh.....okay?
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  • doozer1345doozer1345 member
    valerie4786 said:
    "OMG you're vagina is going to be like a black hole and you're quickly going to have meat curtains down there." - Coworker
    What! Who says that!?
    Right?! I just snobbily (is that a word?) looked at him and said well thank God you won't have to worry about seeing my meat curtains. Who came up with meat curtains?? Gross!
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  • ayeshaoharaayeshaohara member
    Missingchampagne said:

    A friend of mine told me immediately "get ready to gain at least 100 pounds" when I first got pregnant. I was shocked, she is a big girl and gained 100 lbs with each of her daughters (each time I think she only ever lost 50 of it afterwards). I told her I knew that was not typical, and definitely hoped that would not be the case for me.

    4 months in, she asked me "how much have you gained so far?" In a tone so cheerful I think she was hoping I would say 75 pounds. I responded "just one pound, I'm sure he's waiting for a little later on to really let me have it".

    She paused, then bitterly responded: "Well the majority of the weight you'll gain AFTER you have the baby because you won't want to cook, so you'll just order pizza every night."

    Wtf? I don't do that now! Why would I start developing a pizza habit out of nowhere? It's like she wants me to join her in the unhealthy pregnancy club.

    Side note: all your stories thus far have made me laugh sooo hard!


    I have a coworker like this. She's obsessed with how much weight im putting on because she never lost her baby weight. She's always talked about "when you have a baby" etc etc. Waiting for me to join her in her misery...I can only hope it won't happen!
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  • KurrantKurrant member
    Wow some of these stories! half of them sound like miserable ladies who just want to make themselves feel better by bathing in your failure. I hate that kind of attitude. If you don't gain as much weight/have a better time/don't fall into a pit of depression then OBVIOUSLY you are doing something wrong . ..  *eye roll*

    I haven't had anyone say anything weird or flat out rude yet. My MIL has rubbed my belly several times which is annoying but shes 83 and I would feel like a complete ass shoving her hand away. I don't know why her age plays into it for me. I was always raised to respect my elders and shes very much my elder so I guess it's that.
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  • JohnsonbmjJohnsonbmj member
    edited November 2015
    My dad told DH, in front of me, to ask the doc to give me "an extra stitch"....

    Because I was young when we found out, 21, almost everyone asked if it was planned. I find that question so rude and unnecessary!

    When I told a close friend this time around that my period was late and I might be pregnant, her first response was "uh oh.." Just because you don't want to have another kid doesn't mean we don't!

    I was a week overdue with DS and everyday FIL would tell us that I was probably about 4+cm dialated. Weird.

    DH is military and was gone almost a year, he's been back for 8 months, but we've gotten a lot of "he was gone so long, no wonder you got pregnant!"

    ETA My grandma loved to ask how much weight I gained with DS and would then proceed to brag about how she never gained more than 20lb with all 5 of her kids. However, she's petite and none of her babies weighed more than 5lb. DS was 9.5...
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  • CharissadeatsCharissadeats member
    One friend asked me - so are you going to find out what thing your thing is going to be?

    I was just like, I assume you're asking if I'm going to find out what sex my baby is going to be?

    She is so rude - who calls a baby a thing?
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  • LaurenB2016LaurenB2016 member
    Omg I really needed a good laugh... Or ten! Thanks for sharing ladies
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  • MamaLynnzMamaLynnz member
    I told one of my coworkers I was pregnant and her first response was "Congratulations... Right?" We talk occasionally but I seriously doubt if I WASNT happy about the baby I wouldn't go around telling everyone. I simply said "Yes, thank you, we're very excited!"
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