To dislike the term "fell pregnant"?

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You didn't. Unless you actually tripped and accidentally slipped onto a cock that you couldn't possibly have known was in the room. You are the Virgin Mary, it should not have been a surprise, you had sex, yu did not "fall pregnant".

That is all. I thangyow.

I prefer knocked up.

YANBU.

It makes me think of Catherine Cookson heroines - either some poor housemaid who was ravished by the Lord of the Manor's son, or a downtrodden wife and mother living in a hovel, falling for her 12th baby in a decade because her husband has "needs". A bit like that thing on TV last night (something Riding).

It sounds as if you have no choice in the matter basically. It's a woman's lot and all that.

Women either get pregnant or conceive.

How about "I caught pregnancy"?

Or "I was injected with baby custard through a pink oboe"

Or "My eggs did the Jizzle Jazzle dance and now I'm going to pass/passed a 9lb human out my fanjo"?

YABU

"Fell Pregnant is all faux-naive whoopsiedaisy."

^ this. YANBU at all.

Although I have only ever been knocked up as I've never TTC.

Knocked up suggests at least a little agency on the woman's part - that she was free with her favours rather than taken advantage of.

Oh God yes. I'm adding a 'what BoF said' tag to my name. Although falling on a cock sounds a better pastime than the standing on a plug I've just managed.

I've also see this strange thing recently when people talk about pregnancy: 'on dd I had braxton hicks from 24wks'. On?

Don't like it either. What's wrong with just "pregnant/became pregnant etc. One of the most irritating phases I can think of. Don't know why - just annoys me intensely.

PMSL at 'whoopsiebaby'.

YANBU- ridiculous expression, especially when referring to the father as well, as in 'Fred and Jane fell pregnant in December'.

I even more hate the less commonly used 'When I fell for little Johnny'.

Sounds ridiculous.

Totally agree - it's the most hideous expression. Has anyone on Mumsnet actually used it themselves ? .

People on MN always using it - really hate it. It's the sort of expression that wants to be ladylike and well-bred (although why anyone would want to pretend to be either of those things ) and just makes you sound like a half-wit.

not quite the same, but had to smile when watching the 'tudors' on sat night, they asked the queen if she had given another man her 'maiden head', meaning her virginity!

YANBU.

It implies that women have to 'give in' somehow or comply in some way in order to get pregnant. And anyway it just sounds daft.

I hate it almost as much as describing a pregnant woman as 'about to drop', which I'm getting a lot at the moment as I'm 40+3. Drop? Drop what? And no the baby will not just 'drop' out of me .

Oh thank god it's not just me. I thought I would be ostracised for hating that phrase! It might be an accident/surprise sometimes but that doesn't make it the Immaculate Conception. Sex will have happened at some point!

Grrr.

Ah, but Panzee, you are confusing the Virgin Birth with the Immaculate Conception there ...the IC refers to Mary herself being born free from the stain of original sin, see, to make her a fitting vessel for the son of God. She went on to have a Virgin Birth (unless we count the Angel Gabriel sprinkling her with the babydust of the Holy Spirit at The Anunciation . Although some scholars suggest that "virgin" was just a generic term for a young woman in those days, so she may indeed have done the nasty...

HTH

I don't like "fell pregnant" it smacks of the farmyard, for some inexplicable reason. I also hate it when people announce unasked they're "trying for a baby", mostly as what it means is "we'll be having lots of enthusiastic unprotected sex" and no one needs to be conjuring with those sorts of mental images about friends and their partners. hoists bosom/cats bum mouth etc

I've thought about this and I think that perhaps YABU, you're telling me you've never ever used the phrase (truthfully):

i fell pregnant
i fell in love
i fell asleep
i fell out (with my friend for example)
i fell ill
I fell apart

when we use these phrases it never ever means that we actually fall/fell down physically, it's just a phrase - I can't see how using such phrases sum up someones intelligence....

then again, each to their own i suppose

or maybe you just dont like "i fell pregnant" which is fine, but your reasoning would apply to all of the above...

The other things are often things that you can't help doing, hence the falling. If you tell someone you fell asleep then its often when you were supposed to stay awake. "I was supposed to go out but I fell asleep". Perhaps its not always true but I always think that 'fell pregnant' implys that it just happened and you can't fathom how or it was completely beyond your control.

Ah, but falling in love is not a choice, is it? Whereas falling pregnant definitely requires a shag. Agency, that is the difference.

Agency is indeed the word.

But BoF, "done the nasty"?!?!

Only "dtd" sits between that and bd-ing, surely?

YABU
Fell pregnant doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Fell on it's own is odd I think and I dislike 'caught' as in 'I caught in the first month of trying' and I really dislike 'we're pregnant' but 'we're expecting a baby' is just fine.
Agree with Kaz fell is used in lots of situations as she listed and those of you getting your knickers in a twist about the passiveness of falling pregnant are analysing a commonly used phrase too much. English is a quirky language afterall.

at can't fathom how it happened, susan