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To utterly despise every man who ever said...

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ApocalypseThen · 06/01/2014 17:47

"We're pregnant".

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FrankAndFurt · 06/01/2014 18:14

YANBU It sounds silly to me. 'We are going to be parents' is perfectly ok but 'We are pregnant' sounds daft.

SauvignonBlanche · 06/01/2014 18:17

YANBU

AuntieStella · 06/01/2014 18:19

YANBU

Unless he's making medical history.

sykadelic15 · 06/01/2014 18:22

Well a little to be honest 'cause I know what they mean. They too are going to be a parent soon. It actually took a second for me to write that second sentence because he's not "having a baby" or "pregnant".

Technically he can't say "Sykadelic and I are having a baby!" NOPE, WRONG, she is, you aren't.

If someone said to me "my wife is pregnant" and excludes himself from the equation, can't help but wonder if he's the dad.

Maybe I should tell my DH to run around town yelling "I impregnated my wife!"

SaucyJack · 06/01/2014 18:24

I'd take it over "We don't want pain relief" any day of the week.

ClockWatchingLady · 06/01/2014 18:25

YANBU. Hideous.

I am, however, now considering keeping DP home from football today because "we" have such bad period pains....

NewtRipley · 06/01/2014 18:27

yy sykadelic

Someone should invent a new phrase to mean "we've made a baby"

Oh - maybe "We've created a baby"

"I've impregnated my wife" makes it all about him Grin

SkinnybitchWannabe · 06/01/2014 18:35

A lad who I work with wrote on his facebook page 'My balls work we're aving a kid'
Nice

LittleMachine · 06/01/2014 18:37

When my SIL was in labour, my BIL texted me saying 'We're 7cm dilated.'

Confused

YANBU

ApocalypseThen · 06/01/2014 18:38

Wow, a psychologist's field day...

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bumblebeebzz · 06/01/2014 18:42

my DP said this!

I quickly reminded him that no, I'M pregnant.

honeybeeridiculous · 06/01/2014 18:48

When I worked on the maternity ward there was a very strange couple, think Roy Cropper and Bonnie Tyler
I walked in on them at her bedside, she was sat on a chair and he was sat on the floor between her legs, I kid you not, hand expressing milk from her breasts while she just sat there Shock Shock
I didn't know where to put myself, I was traumatised for days!
"We are expressing" Grin

Only1scoop · 06/01/2014 18:50

Yanbu ....just no....can't bare it from either parent to be.

Eminybob · 06/01/2014 18:57

YY to rhubarb and "bean". I hate hate it. Also "the bump" especially when signed in cards. Grrr.

However I made the fatal mistake of telly DP this and although in complete agreement with me he's been using bean ever since to wind me up Hmm

Eminybob · 06/01/2014 18:58
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ElkTheory · 06/01/2014 18:58

YANBU. Can't stand this phrase.

I don't see anything wrong with "We are having a baby," though. It doesn't mean, "We are giving birth" IMO. It means, "Our baby is going to be born" or "We will soon have a baby in the family." Which is fair enough.

Topseyt · 06/01/2014 19:07

I can't stick it. It is just ridiculous.

I was pregnant with our three daughters. My husband wasn't, and he wouldn't have wanted to be thought of as such.

I guess it is some sort of media invention, though I don't really know where it actually came from.

NatashaBee · 06/01/2014 19:08

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hoobypickypicky · 06/01/2014 19:11

YANBU. I can't abide "we're pregnant" coming from men or women.

finallydelurking · 06/01/2014 19:13

Oh thank god I've found this thread! Thought it was just me who felt so irrationally strongly about the whole 'we're pregnant' thing! Vomit inducing Confused

sykadelic15 · 06/01/2014 19:18

"My sperm found her egg and cells are dividing!"

stickysausages · 06/01/2014 19:34

I didn't realise I was so easy going, before I found mumsnet

HoratiaDrelincourt · 06/01/2014 19:37

"We're expecting a baby" or "she is pregnant".

Grumpasaurus · 06/01/2014 20:01

THIS DRIVES ME MAD.

Whoever started this should have a growing / moving fist shoved up their anus for nine months and then be kicked in the ball sack repeatedly whilst coughing the fist out of their stupid, inaccurate, mouth!

Perhaps a bit unreasonable...

heartisaspade · 06/01/2014 20:21

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