How much longer?
It looks like you could POP any minute? Apparently, this person thinks like my 4 year old daughter.
How old are the other 2?
You sure have your hands full.
Whoa. Let me get OUT of your way.
Tsk. Tsk. Poor thing.
What name do you have picked out? Oh. That is different.
Do you feel alright?
Not much longer, honey.
You could go at any time.
At least it's not really hot.
Girl, are you ever going to have that baby?
Ahh, poor thing.
PEOPLE, please!!! Just because I am pregnant doesn't give you the right to say the first thing that comes to your mind! I still have feelings behind this bump. I will only allow my real friends to be that honest!
BE NICE TO ME!!
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Oh, girl...it was just a few short months ago that I was getting those same comments. People are SO rude.
And, I still get the "hands full", "whew, you're busy", etc. on a daily basis.
Only a few more weeks! I can't wait!
I remember hearing all of those comments. Then, there was this man at our church (my father's age) who EVERY week would say, "you look beautiful today." I finally told him how refreshing that was to hear, and he said, "my wife was never more beautiful than when she was pregnant with our children." Sigh, if only more people in this would could take a lesson from him.
You look beautiful, my friend (and I really mean that...I saw a recent picture on Alana's blog, and you are radiant!).
I feel your pain.
I'm 21 weeks pregnant with one large baby boy. He's my fifth. My waistline, if you could call it that, has surpassed the 45 inches I measured a couple of weeks ago.
At this point, I am enjoying the reactions to "Awww...you're due in a few weeks, right?" and "Honey, is this your first?" when I answer honestly "nope, 19 weeks to go!" and "nope, he's my fifth!" with a big smile. The jaws dropping make their own unique sound, don't they?
I know that at 9 months, with a 60 inch waistline, I will be in tears and not want to leave the house, but for now, I'm enjoying it. Last pregnancy, we didn't find out the gender, so to the question "Do you know what you're having?" I answered "A baby." Or the perpetually rude "HOW MANY are you having?" I answer "triplets" or "puppies", depending on the rudeness of the asker. ::giggle::
You're doing wonderfully, housing this sweet little life, and soon you will be holding that sweet blessing and loving on him/her, and it won't matter a bit! Carry on, girl!
It is such a blessing to be pregnant... I wish more people would realize that... or just keep their mouth closed! So sorry you're enduring this stranger abuse. Know that you are loved... and I'm sure the most beautiful you've ever been because you're carrying a miracle!
What about getting gender diagnoses? I love how they always proclaim what you are having before even asking. One lady told me I was having a girl because my face was so "swollen".
Nice.
When I was pregnant with Richie a guy we knew in England came to visit at the VERY END of the pregnancy and when he saw me he said, (in his english accent which in this case WAS NOT charming) "Whoa, Alana, you're twice the size you were the last time I saw you."
Nice. Thanks.
I'm right there with ya, sister! I'm only 31 weeks and I'm already getting---"WOW! You must be ready to pop any day now, huh?" NO, actually I sill have two more months to go....Then I get looks of horror as they imagine what I will look like in two more months.
I've gotten a whoooooooollllleeee lot of "Are you sure it's not twins?"
Sigh....
Hang in there!
Heavens, they act like pregnancy is some kind of horrible affliction. Or for that matter that having a few kids, on PURPOSE, is a terrible fate.
I personally LOVE being pregnant and I LOVE having my hands full with my crazy two year old and if neither sound fun to someone else then too bad for them.
Whatever happened to the concept of a simple and polite "Congratulations!?"
THANK YOU!
I remember all those comments with Woggie. No one's said anything to me yet (besides family--gotta love 'em), but I do get some "poor you" looks when I have Woggie with me. But I think that's probably because he's screaming and hitting me rather than because of my size. :-)
I love what Lynn said above, about the man who told her she looked beautiful. I'm going to start saying that to every pregnant women I know!
OK I have the perfect remedy...
just think of the LOVELY comments i will be getting very soon.
Because let's face it. I get bigger than you with only one baby and hello there are TWO babies this time. We are talking get the moving dolly to cart me around kinda big!
You are so beautiful! honestly I think this bump has been the most becoming on you yet. You have worn this pregnancy beautifully.
Seriously.
I'm sorry for your struggles with people...seriously....need a polite school to send people to.....maybe we should start a public etiquette class for the polite-impaired.
I adopted Keilani, therefore I did not get these comments... however, I must admit there are a list of rude comments I got too. People somehow lose their manners around the time of child birth. When Keilani was born, one lady actually said to me, "Kay- what??? Kaaaay-what??? What did you go and name her that for. People will never learn that name? You should have named her a normal name, like Jane, or Lisa..."
I really was just speachless.
I agree with Faith. I might even agree to be a teacher. :0 I might get fired after the first day, but it would be fun. :)
i'll be nice to you...i've seen you very recently and i seriously think you look cute as a button! seriously!
Aren't people lovely? And isn't it remarkable that so many strangers feel such freedom to say whatever pops into their head?
Hang in there!
Oh yeah, yeah...totally been there. The last 4 weeks of my last pregnancy I stayed home from church b/c of one particularly vocal woman. Every week she said something nasty to me. I told everyone I was tired, but in actuallity, I couldn't take her "Boy are you huge" anymore.
Amen, sister!! I wished people would stop all their rude comments when I was pregnant too. A friend of mine got told once by another friend's husband that she was as big as a whale!...what?! I for one think you look just beautiful!! You just don't listen to them....
I linked over from Tara's. I LOVE the name of you blog!
I found your blog from Tara.
I just wanted to say the same thing to you as I did to her. People don't realize the true beauty of a pregnant woman. I have no idea what you look like, but I am sure you are gorgeous!
My worst: "Oh honey, if you get any bigger you're going to need your own zip code."
I actually smacked that person. I blame it on the hormones.
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