to let it bother me so much when couples say "we're pregnant"?

[Schnitzel]

I know this is really petty, but it REALLY gets on my goat. Where did this "we're pregnant" business come from?! I'm probably just being a really miserable git.

I have to say that it makes me spontaneously cringe too!

"We're expecting a baby", "we're having a baby" fine, but "we're pregnant" just sounds odd!!!

PMSL @ joint C-section :o

The man could insist on having his belly cut open just so they could have little matching scars.

Up the duff! Where does that one come from?

Matching scars -- how cute would that be!

Mind you, I've been sitting here with my mind boggling about where they would manage to put the forceps...

I thought duff was a kind of pudding, like plum duff, no idea what that has to do with pregnancy though...

YANBU, totally naff

Even worse (IMHO) than "I fell pregnant" is "I caught. i.e. "I caught the first time".

Shudders.

Anyway, I digress!

Off the subject slightly but when you say you are ttc and some twat says "oh i get pg at the drop of a hat,took me one day after i came off the pill etc" they usually have one or two children

Not so bad, if said by DH !

Perhaps they've been trying for a long time !

Even if some find them more trying now

Eeeeeewwwwww YUK at 'I caught first time' and 'pregnant for Y'.

I reckon up the duff might come from the pudding shape

Duff Puddings

Oh also OP YABU for using the phrase "get on my goat" which is giving me some hilarious mental images :o

Ugh. My friend once said in conversation "when we fell pregnant", and I jumped in and said "no - you did" ...she was a bit frosty with me after that. I was only pointing out the truth...

YANBU - what's wrong with saying we're having a baby?!

I used to think it was cringy but DH said it not long after "we" got pregnant to me and it didn't bother me, because actually it was a lot of fucking work from both of us getting to that point and I did feel like "we" were pregnant. We got it where it is, and while he doesn't have to deal with the excess 18 stone or so I've put on... he does have to deal with the tiredness, the grumpiness, he mood swings, the fact that I DONT CLEAN ANYTHING EVER NOW. You know basically everything but the constipation

I have never understood the expression "falling" as in "I fell immediately". Was her husband flat on his back, stark naked on the floor and she tripped? Or was there someting strange going on involving the top of the wardrobe?! But our doctor's receptionist did laugh when I asked her for the "Official Up the Duff Pack".

DH was forever teasing me that we would have twins, so I claimed he was carrying the second one in his beer gut.

Doesn't falling pregnant originate from negative connotations? from the old days when children still a blessing but another mouth to feed. Now used generally.

I have said it a few times, as has DH.

Just because I am physically carrying it, doesnt mean its all down to me! As far as I am concerned, he has to work hard during this pg too, as I was very ill with morning sickness, am so tired I could cry and my SPD has started to rear its ugly head so its going to be even harder work for him.

He gives me a lie in every day that he isnt in early and gets the kids up for school, makes lunches etc. He will do practically everything for me if I asked him to (I dont, but I might have to soon) and he works full time.

So we are both working towards a healthy me and a healthy baby so yes, WE are pregnant!

I'm pregnant, we are having a baby.

When my brother told me, he said "Me and are going to be parents." I liked that.

I don't mind if people say this, presumably they want it to be a shared thing, and this is a worthy aspiration for parenthood after all...

Should have been 'my wife and I' in that particular sentence

Oh, isn't this Pedants'Corner?

ps 'We're pregnant'= factually inaccurate. Do they say ' we're having a period?'

I can't staaaaannnddd men who act like they lived through it. I actually had a guy from work tell me he knew as much about breastfeeding as I did!

Yes my DD and our upcoming arrival are my husbands and he is fully involved when they arrive but, apart from supporting me, back off on the whole pregnant thing. They are not going through it and just don't have a clue!

My DH once tried to tell me how to BF DS, who was always a pain to get to latch on. I gave DS to DH and told him to get on with it if he knew so much!