to be stressed and shocked at being possibly pregnant?

[bellabreeze]

I feel like I might be pregnant. I have 8 DCs (yes, eight!!!) I do keep a positive attitude and cope very well but I am kind of thinking 'oh my god 9 kids!!?' I feel overwhelmed!!! Its not that I would hate to have another child but I feel so shocked and strange about having 9 kids! Its only 1 more but it is so close to 10...

This post doesn't really make much sense I am just overwhelmed

Congratulations Bella :)

I am saddened that you felt you had to explain your finances to a bunch of strangers, thanks to the comments above. MN can indeed be a nest of vipers at times :(

Thank you mrs Dv.

Oh no I wasn't reacting to the news, you misunderstood me. I was agreeing with Bogeyface that mumsnet is a nest of vipers and that's really sad.

I'm not sad for Bella, she seems very cheerful and I'm sure she'll manage

(I might have been being sarcastic which would have thrown you)

Ahhhhhhh.

I think perhaps we are all being a little sarcastic now

Thanks all

none of this annoys me but I can see how it could annoy a lot of people, people on benefits, women who are pregnant or have more children than most, even 3 kids can be considered too many by some

Congratulations!

Congratulations

Well congratulations OP. I hope that you can reach some amicable arrangement with your dh.

congrats Bella. You're an old hand at this...you'll be just fine

Congratulations Bella :)

are you a traveller OP?

WTAF?!!!

Congrats OP. Really have a great pregnancy.

Actually I missed the traveller thing. What the hell is that about?

Not a bad question. Nothing at all to do with how many children she has, was something entirely different that suggested she might be.
It's not a bad thing to be asked if you are, you know, no need to get offended on her behalf. Bloody rude actually.

I'm willing to bet if the OP's DC were called Tarquin, Persephone, etc she would be getting a very different response.

Sad thread.

Well coming on the back of the assumptions of her being some benefit scrounging slapper I would say that yes, it is offensive actually, because of the the negative associations that many people make with Travellers.

Only if I personally had said anything about benefits or anything negative. Don't treat people as a homegenous mass.
I have no negative associations with travellers.

If we are going to stereotype travellers - they don't boot their husbands out do they?

Agree with the comment about TArquin btw.

And apart from anything else what the actual fuck relevance would being a traveller have???

Nobody is stereotyping travellers, other than you who is assuming that it is a negative thing to be asked. It isn't anyhting to be ashamed of you know, and its quite offensive of you to make it out to be negative or stereotypical at all.