To utterly despise every man who ever said...

[ApocalypseThen]

"We're pregnant".

I dunno, if pregnant just means expectant, which it kind of does, then it seems reasonable. Rather 'we're pregnant' than a man who can't be arsed to come to antenatal classes ever, or generally can't be arsed.

at that blog, heartisaspade - what a patronising dick! Like Emma's Diary for men

Pregnant does not just mean expectant. Try it.

I agree, it's horribly twee, however:

He's not pregnant. It's not worse for him. He doesn't know how you feel. He won't be left with permanent physical effects.

No, but...
Actually, yes, I think it is, not least because...
He does. I've told him all about it. Repeatedly and at some length.
I wouldn't bet on it.

YANBU. I hit DH the one and only time he said it. After three months of me vomiting he is now fully trained to be sympathetic and go on about how sorry he is for the fact I am so ill. He also buys me weekly flowers.

I also hate 'Baby Mama'... just yuck.

i was watching this american birth programme last night, i know, i know,.. and the man said We are 4 cm dilated!

"He shoots......he scores!"
that is GROSS

I have heard a woman say about her and her partner WE are breastfeeding unless your man is a walking miracle YOU are breastfeeding love

honeybeeridiculous Not only that, but "we are pregnant with a little princess*. I thought it was a joke thread, but it seems it isn't.

Anyone (especially men without a feckin' clue, but actually anyone) who says "we are pregnant", "we are breastfeeding", "we are in labor", "we don't need pain relief for this birth" should be beaten to death with a shovel, and then buried with it.

Horrible, ridiculous, icky, skin-crawling thing to say - YANBU. At all.

dh said after I had dd1 to visitors WE are exhausted but WE are ok, oh are we dear fuck off

'We're expecting' would be less contentious and seems nicer than 'my wife is pregnant', which seems a little detached. Yes women get all the physical shit from conception and through the first months/years post-birth, but the big deal is becoming a parent and raising a child.

I'm a little biased perhaps, as my child's father was bloody useless and want even going to attend the birth (he only did in the end because my female birthing partner was ill).

OTOH 'we're x cms dilated' justifies a sharp kick somewhere painful.

"We're breastfeeding" isn't actually physically impossible: the male mammary organs are entirely functional, just underdeveloped. Spot of hormone treatment (or just hormone imbalance from prolonged malnutrition or steroid abuse) and a man can breastfeed. Not well, mind, but it's like a dog walking on two legs. The impressive part is doing it at all.

Every chap I've known who used the "we're pregnant" line has been, without exception, a complete and utter drip who used soppy drippiness to cover being the kind of creeping misogynist that makes my knuckles itch.

but the we are breastfeeding couples are just wet and feeble and i can guarantee the man would probably run a mile if his wife suggested he get the hromones to do the breastfeeding

A creepy misogynist Kisses who "worships" the "goddess" who had the misfortune to hook up with him. He wears turtle necks and was quite possibly her lecturer. He won her over with terrible, terribly poetry and a guitar

Terrible, terrible poetry that turns out, on closer examination, to be plagiarised anyway.

Plagiarised from an ex who had the commonsense to run far, far away!

I don't recall DH suffering with SPD, sickness, symptoms of pre-eclampsia or carpal tunnel syndrome. I was pregnant. "We" weren't.
YANBU

JohnnyBarthes we are not just drawing a picture here, we're colouring it in...

...with beautiful colours, man.