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Original poster

Friend just sent me this. I don't know how to reply

146 replies

IHateGardenCentres · 31/08/2013 11:01

I'm pregnant with # 3 and just got this from friend (also pg) it's a picture of a baby scan with a poem written over it

In tears (of laughter!

Yes I'm a bitch

Admire me for my bloated, swollen cankled grace? Hahahaha. Oh

Mummy, can you feel me?
I'm wriggling just for you.
I can hear you say you love me,
Mum I love you too.

Very soon you'll meet me,
And kiss my tiny face.
And I will feel your warm skin,
And admire you for your grace.

Mummy are you ready?
My life is just about to start.
I will hold your little finger,
But you will hold my heart.

OP posts:
valiumredhead · 31/08/2013 11:30

Exactly little.

RobinStinson · 31/08/2013 11:32

YABU to post this mocking her when she was trying to be nice to you. Fair enough to not like it but to try get other people to laugh and agree with you is nasty.

SilverApples · 31/08/2013 11:33


This

Fakebook · 31/08/2013 11:38

Ah that's brought a tear to my eye. I don't like the use of "Mum" at the end of the first verse though.

pigsDOfly · 31/08/2013 11:50

It really is appalling. I thought when I read your post OP that your friend had written it herself until others said they had received it from friends.

However, I agree, you are being mean and cruel to post it on here in an effort to get others to laugh at your friend who probably thought you would share her delight in it. I just hope she isn't a mumsnetter or I can see it being the end of your friendship.

BlissfullyIgnorant · 31/08/2013 11:55

Confused, boak and Grin in equal measure.
Grin

Original poster
IHateGardenCentres · 31/08/2013 11:55

The poem has been doing the rounds, It's all over Facebook, I'm not the only person to hve received it

OP posts:
littlemog · 31/08/2013 14:04

Can I just say that I LOVE garden centres and have just returned from one proudly brandishing some lovely giant catmint for our cat garden?!

As you were. Smile

BalloonSlayer · 31/08/2013 14:10

I don't think any of my DCs have ever admired me for my grace.

When I went over on one ankle in the town centre this morning and did that am-I-going-to-fall-over-or-not tapdance in front of throngs of Saturday shoppers, did she say: "Oh wow Mum, that was so graceful" ? Did she buggery.

JeanPaget · 31/08/2013 14:16

I don't think you're being mean! I'd absolutely wet myself if someone tagged me in a poem like that...

Clearly I'm a massive bitch.

MollyHooper · 31/08/2013 14:18

I have gotten a little choked up reading that. Blush

But I'm cuddling 6 weeks old DS, and he does hold my little finger and...

Oh God.

AdmiralData · 31/08/2013 14:22

Harsh. Even if you do find it twee and overdone your friend tried to do a NICE thing, perhaps just appreciate it for its sentiment and try not to be so judgemental in the future? YABU.

SoonToBeSix · 31/08/2013 14:23

I think that's sweet, yabvu

Seaweedy · 31/08/2013 14:24

You're not being remotely mean. That 'poem' is criminal. If anyone I knew sent it to me, I would assume they were joking.

OP, might your friend have sent it to you in a spirit of 'isn't this terrible?' Clutching at straws here.

diddl · 31/08/2013 14:26

It's awful.

I'd have to defriend someone who sent me that.

Seaweedy · 31/08/2013 14:26

Would suggest you reply 'That's hilarious!' With a lot of grinning emoticons.

HollaAtMeBaby · 31/08/2013 14:27

Awful. I'd be inclined to reply something like "thanks, I hadn't vomited in weeks and was starting to miss it" so I guess I'm a bitch too...

steppemum · 31/08/2013 14:30

I am totally with you op, this makes me want to grab a bucket. I can't bear this type of fake emotion poems.

I would be like seaweedy and tempted to reply - ''that's hilarious!'' with a smiley face

But if I knew she really liked it i wouldn't because I wouldn't want to burst her bubble.

bigkidsdidit · 31/08/2013 14:32

Bloody hell that's dreadful. I particularly like 'admire you for your grace' which is something no child has done EVER about their mother, but allows a rhyme to be shoehorned in

HaroldLloyd · 31/08/2013 14:34

FFS your not being mean! It's a FB round robin poem which are mostly quite cringey.

It would only be mean if the lady penned it herself.

NoComet · 31/08/2013 14:35

I don't think my DDs have ever thought of me as full of Grace, but take out that very forced middle verse and it's sort of sweet.

My youngest is 12 so it's nice remembering, she did once wiggle inside me and grab my little finger as only babies do.

Congratulations and by #3 you're allowed to be a bit cynical.

Pagwatch · 31/08/2013 14:38

I have to block people who send me stuff like that.
Having a child with SN I get sent inspirational stuff all the time - mostly talking about what a special mummy I am.

I get it's well intentioned but it's trite and annoying. I am not special. Most of the time I feel pretty fucked over.

Nancy66 · 31/08/2013 14:40

Yuk - hate that sort of twee shit.

Seaweedy · 31/08/2013 14:41

Pagwatch, a friend of mine has a newish baby with a disability. She says that if she is sent one more copy of that 'Welcome to Holland' piece she will go mad with a flamethrower.

Finola1step · 31/08/2013 14:42

Twee and not my cup of tea but I do think you are being vv harsh OP. I love a garden centre though.

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