It's sooo easy to complain about all the idiots you meet when you're pregnant. All the same questions, the old wives tales people feel the need of telling you about...
Let's make a list of the special nice things people we know or strangers have said to us. Things that touched you because it was so nice and so sweet.
first one:
I had a bad day and on top of it I just had an argument with my partner.
I went to do my shopping at tesco's.
I felt terrible, I was hormonal, upset.
Thinking back at it I just must have looked terrible moody as well.
It was nice weather that day. I went to the till. It's so often that the person behind the till asks me if I know what it's and bla bla bla.
I really wanted to be left alone. So I was hoping that he wasn't going to say anything to me.
But, he asked very sweet and very kindly:
How are you?
I just couldn't say anything anymore. I was fighting of my tears. I was so touched by that simple question. It was the way he said it. So nice, so sweet and like he really cared.
I just could feel all the negativity just gone out of me in a second. All I could do was cry.
The he smiled nicely and asked if I was going to do something today. Are you going to enjoy the nice weather?
Tears all coming out of my eyes and all I could do was shaking my head and with difficulty a yes came out of my mouth.
second one:
Also by the till.
This time a young lady. She asked me if I know what it was going to be, a boy or a girl?
I thought:
gggrrrr NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Here we go again.
Because we were all there.
Me, my husband and our 3 BOYS.
I said that it's going to be a boy.
Her response:
How lovely you'll have 4 boys.
And some other nice things she said that I can't remember anymore.
Again, like the man behind the till. It was the way she said it that did it for me.
Really happy, nothing silly like didn't you wanted a girl....
A lovely smile came on her face when I told her it was a boy.
That totally made my day!
Up to this moment she's the only one (that I don't know personally) who responded this way when I say it's going to be a boy or I don't know what it's going to be.
It's always something like:
Didn't you wanted a girl?
Are you hoping for a girl?
Why people who I don't know feel the need of saying these things...... God knows.
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nice things people have said to you
syl1985 · 19/08/2013 01:50
I was whinging to a (new-ish) colleague about how fat and awful I felt 
and she told me that she thought I 'had a special kind of beauty'.
I felt like a right tit. 
I joined a new synagogue when heavily pregnant, and didn't really know anybody. In a break during a service the elderly man in front of me turns around - I think he's going to complain about my fidgetiness - and quietly says "My dear, I do hope you're going to breast feed your baby wherever you like and whenever you like. If anybody makes a fuss it's their problem, not yours. "
The memory still makes me 
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I was feeling royally fed up with being pregnant today; having to go back to work after the bank holiday and the gruesome return of morning sickness at 24 weeks, then some old ladies brightened my day:
I went to the refectory of the Cathedral near my work for a cup of peppermint tea to try to soothe my stomach and enjoy their pretty courtyard. I was feeling pretty sick, so headed to the loos and locked myself in a cubicle for a while (you can imagine the rest!). By the time I came out there was a huge queue of old ladies - I started to apologise for taking so long and they were all so nice, saying they thought it might be somebody who was hungover but that they didn't mind waiting for 'a pretty pregnant lady' at all. One of them even offered to get me something to eat/drink! Awwww.
What a lovely thread, this coupled with raging hormones is making me all bleary eyed!
I was boosted a couple of weeks back when I was told 'you can't even tell from the back'!
The most came just last night, I'd had a particularly tiring day, had no make up on, hair wet after a bath, feeling rather emotional. DP completely out of the blue told me how much he loves me and how beautiful I am to him... He is not usually one to say anything like that so was extra special and just what I needed!
This is a lovely thread.
I got a fist-bump and a 'nice-one' from a random guy on the street
I got told I make pregnancy look so easy (which made me instantly feel for all the complaints I'd made along the way)
My favourite has to be "pregnancy really suits you" and how I'm "blooming and beautiful" one lady stopped to tell me! And like another poster has mentioned, being told you don't look pregnant from the back! And that you're all bump and haven't put any weight on!
Makes you feel absolutely wonderful, it's a welcome change to "you're big aren't you!"
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I was told today that I was glowing and looked fabulous it really perked up my day!
Oh dear, i'm all emotional now.
Last week I was at the local shop buying some chocolate because I had had a terrible day I only realised I hadn't got my purse with me when I got to the till and got so upset that the guy behind the till said he would pay for it for me. I nearly hugged him and walked out of the shop bawling my eyes out.
The day before I was in town window shopping and had gone to sit on a bench. A little old lady came over and sat next to me. She asked the usual questions and when she found out I was due in december her eyes lit up at the thought of a 'christmas miracle' and she shoved £5 in my hand to treat myself with. She insisted that I spent it today and on something frivolous like cake
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