..to be really pissed off with this woman?

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Apologies in advance for length.
Background. I'm 14 weeks into my first pregnancy. I've been tired the whole time, but it's been getting worse over the last 2 weeks, I feel totally exhausted. I keep getting cold after cold. My back is /killing/ me. (Not literally, but it feels like it.) I'm mood swingy as hell and thoroughly pissed off at the prospect of feeling like shit for the next 6 months, because apparently a lack of "blooming" runs in my family.

I spent my day at work running around our giant new office, up and down a large set of stairs at least twice every hour sorting out problems for morons. I get out of breath so easily at the moment, and would need a few minutes to recover each time. Come 2:45 I sat back in my chair, sighed and started rubbing my back. Then the old cow chimes in "You know dear, pregnancy isn't an illness." No, it's not, but it makes me feel like shit. I'm not precious about it, I'm not an attention seeker, I just feel like shit. AIBU to want to smack her until she feels shitty too?

Pregnancy does bring out the worst in older women. I just had family round to c dvd of my scan and my nan talked non stop about ''when she had hers''
If I'm entirely honest I was slightly intolerant of a pg girl at work who moaned constantly then I got pregnant with this very late and surprise baby and have felt quite crap. That will learn me!

you should have replied with "no. it is a condition that kills 536,000 women a year"

see how the smug bitch wriggles out of that one

consider it as training for when you have baby and every nebby ole gimmer has a comment about every damn thing

YANBU

The first few weeks do take it out of you. Hopefully you'll feel better soon. But take it easy! It sounds as if you are doing too much rushing around.

Could she be envious?

Smells, I think that is spot on. I'm 44 and I'm terribly envious of pregnant women!

really makes me too. If a man was throwing up multiple times a day for months on end and felt so exhausted he could barely move, he'd be getting himself signed off work for the duration ffs (and probably admit himself to hospital too!)

What a ghastly woman. Would it be possible to be sick on her shoes?

A view from a bloke (Hi there :) ). People who haven't been pregnant (me included) don't realise how sh1t you feel in the early weeks and months. You haven't got any bump to show for it so people assume life just carries on as normal without understanding the work your body is doing to form this baby and the toll it takes on you. I suggest you explain this to her and if she's still an unpleasant b1tch you smack her very hard :o

I lost count of the number of people at work who, in the first 3 months of pregnancy, complimented me on my weight loss.

I told precisely two people at work before the 3 month mark. My boss, who had endured 3 Rhesus positive pregnancies and knew of my history of miscarriages/threatened miscarriages, and my TA who would silently open the door and take over the class about 30 seconds before I realised I was about to throw up. She was an absolute gem that woman.

Remember the morons will have to cope by temselves once you are on maternity leave. Enjoy the thought of them struggling to get even the most simple task done while you are gone.

No pregnancy is not an illness but neither is sarcasm. What a mean thing to say.

I expect her whole pregnanacy was a sheer breeze!!! Perhaps she's too old to remember or perhaps she was lucky. Or perhaps she was told the same thing when she was pregnant?

You can't help how it affects you and we all have different expereinces. Hope it improves for you soon. On days I felt really crap I tried to focus on the end result as much as I could

YANBU. Beat her senseless, you could claim diminished responsibilty due to your mental hormones.

YANBU!

I was so sick with dd I lost 12 pound by the time i was 8 weeks! One morning, I had to pull over 3 times on my 20 min drive to work to throw up in the street. I called in sick and went home, had a day off which was spent with my head down the toilet!
The next day i dragged myself into work, and my childless supervisor said 'where were you yesterday afternoon? Morning sickness only lasts the morning doesn't it?'

FFS!

She has since had a baby, and really annoyingly had no sickness or complications, so is now even more of a patronising bitch

YANBU

I always sail through the first trimester, no problems at all. As soon as I hit around 16-20 weeks is when problems for me start and continue until I give birth.

So I get (or words to the effect of) - "What are you complaining about, lucky you, you've had no sickness, you should be blooming now"

Why can't people just fuck off and mind their own?

To my mind the very, very best response to this is 'Neither is growing old but no-one expects that to be easy.'

It's not rude but it makes the point and if she is an old hag she'll hopefully feel even more decrepit ; )

Madaboutquavers - lmao!

Next time she says something nasty throw up not just in her bin but all over her lower half.

She'll shut up AND you'll get rid of her for the rest of the day!

I had a crap first PG too. Morning sickness lasted for 7 months, twice a day, everyday. When that stopped the indigestion kicked in. I drank more Gaviscon (sp?) than I did anything else, I had nosebleeds, sweats, snapped the tiny bone in my pelvis leaving me unable to walk for a couple of days. It was shit.

Second one wasnt so bad but the morning sickness was worse, that went on for 6 times a day, for 8 months.

To top it all off, you have to pee every 3 sodding minutes (one time nearly landing DH a parking fine as I HAD TO GO, luckly the traffic warden was female and let him off before she wrote anything), nothing fits, you are starving but cant eat, cant sleep, cant get comfortable, your back hurts, your feet hurt, your legs hurt, everything and everyone annoys you, you get upset over the most stupid things, you cry over everything (btw, That bit doesnt stop), your child free friends desert you as they dont know what to say and get fed up treading on eggshells around you, you fart constantly, you feel fat, you get fat - THEN, the streachmarks come, itchy skin, braxton hicks, weird things happening inside your body - then labour - oh what a fucking joy THAT is.

It's no wonder women are moody when pregnant.