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I think I need a drink.

You definitely need a drink.

I always called my 2nd baby (when unborn) no.2. I saved my kicks up the arse for people who used sickly names like 'my little jellybean' or 'my little tadpole' or <barf> Junior.

The Big 4-0 is pretty ghastly, though, yeh.

So what's wrong? Are you pg with no 1/2/3/4 etc or is it a Big 0 birthday?

Have a drink.

This baby is no3. Like mrsmattie says, thats got to be better than 'bean' or 'bubbles' surely.

I actually think no3, sounds quite MN appropriate, so there.

What are you supposed to say instead?

<< passes moondog a large glass of Pimms >>

yup

YABU.
Yanbu to have a wee drink though.

I refered to my pregnancies as no 1/2/3/4 because I don't want to go into the detail of 'when I was pregnant, oh, you remember, that was the one I miscarried over the bank holiday weekend' etc etc

I do just say how old I will be though

at work where no one knows my family( and people can never remember names of three kids in a family anyway) i woudl say " I am off to the cinema with number three son"

I've never said I'm "the big 40 up the jacksy"

I hate it called 'Bubba', number blah I can handle.

yes hate bubba

love up the duff

DS1 was sproggy the whole time I was pregnant and DS2 was bump till 20 weeks when we found out he was a boy, then he was DS2

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No doubt these things are said by Fat British Women?

Indeed.
Am even more irritated after night out with friend who spent whole evening musing on what she will do for the 'big four O'.

I had to restrain myself from beating her to a pulp.

I refer to my hoped for second child as potential number 2, but I too loathe 4-oh and bubba/babba. In fact my PILs still refer to my OH as babba, so as soon as they started also calling my bump it I pointed out that that reminds me of an evil witch (well, Baba Yaga, close enough) and would they please stop, which gave them pause... and they stopped /that/ nickname at least.

Why?

What do you want people to say instead?

Not really sure what the problem is with the described behaviour, but I agree that you do need a drink