To find smug pregnant women annoying (light hearted)

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Sorry to offend anyone just need to have a vent I'm currently 16 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child, but I can't help but get annoyed with smug pregnant women I don't feel smug at all, most days I want to give the world the finger lol.

Does anyone else find the 'we're pregnant' (puke) & naming the unborn baby with names like peanut & piglet so bloody annoying & when pregnant women walk around holding their bump just really irritating? Maybe it's just me hormones raging oh & signing cards from bump I could go on and on ...

The twee nicknames do my head in. Bean, lil man, lil lady, prinny, prince etc vom vom vom

i called mine boris.....a girl(yep she was very young) really thought that was the name we had picked

I felt ill throughout my pregnancy, I seriously resented all the glowing pregnant ladies

I told my husband that if he ever said "we are pregnant", I'd punch him in the balls. There is no we in pregnancy.

No-one deserves to be smug. Smugness is horrible in anyone not just the pregnant.

As for the 'we're pregnant' which makes me want to hit someone or something, is anyone on this thread apart from me old enough to remember the pregnant man advert. I always think of that whenever an idiot says 'we're pregnant'. I'm also always fighting my inner self to avoid asking if they understand about basic female anatomy.

Sorry you are feeling rotten OP. Have a good long rant and enjoy. It'll be worth it - in 18 years when the munchkin has grown up and left home. Ha,ha.

Think some people have a little difficulty in differentiating between 'smug' and 'happy' here!
Hope you feel better, OP

Any bumps in our family are known as "Twit"

I don't see the issue with nicknames, what are you meant to call it?

Growing cells?
Foetus?
Baby?

" I really wish the foetus would stop kicking me in the ribs!"

At the end of the day you generally hear them only ever so often and some fine it helps them to bond...

I always thought "we" are pregnant as some kind of excuse for him, ahem, "letting himself go" and getting a beer belly

Congrats on your pregnancy OP.

Smugness is pretty unpleasant .... but they still have to get through the the first 6months with the infant, so there's a certain amount of sang froid with that, isn't there!?
It's hard to be a smug bastard yummy mummy then, eh? Let them eat cake now.

There's a lot of people on this thread that just sound bitter about their own pregnancy experiences and jealous of women who get less sickness etc. or who are happy whilst pregnant

I think it is lovely to see a couple excited about expecting a baby.

I hated every day being pregnant, I was just smug that I survived.

There's a lot of people on this thread that just sound bitter about their own pregnancy experiences and jealous of women who get less sickness etc. or who are happy whilst pregnant

So what. It's not unusual or unacceptable to sound off in private or feel in your head that your a tad jealious of people who don't spend all their time vomiting or feeling like utter shit whilst you are.

I get more fed up with the 'Pregnancy is an illness' brigade. I understand that for a lot of women, being pregnant actually is pretty debilitating, life changing conditions etc etc - I am NOT denying that. I would be the first to help out in that case.

But the special snowflakes who are experiencing a normal, healthy pregnancy, yet can't possibly walk six feet to collect their own bottle of water 'Because I am pregnant!' I'm sure they are the ones to go on to be PFB.

I was working as a waitress 6 weeks before giving birth to DD. Yes I was pregnant, and on my feet for 12 hours a day, but it was a straightforward pregnancy, and it was what I was used to. No need for special treatment, as there were no complications.

I get what you mean Martyr.

Whilst I felt shit throughout my pregnancy, I didn't behave any differently or expect people to treat me in a special way. Though I'll admit I felt resentful when I was left to stand for hour long team meetings when heavily pregnant.

Where are all these special snowflake pregnant woman hanging out?

I'm pretty sure I've never met anyone who expected unreasonable special treatment because they are pregnant.

I've got to admit, watching Pregnant Women Are Smug did make me think of Giovanna Fletcher!
somelikeitmild your post reminded me of this article I read in the Dreaded Mail a while ago... pregnant woman claims she is being literally shoved about by everybody in London, and she's "too self-conscious" to wear a baby on board badge so she just shoves her bump in people's faces instead!

What does my nut is people using the pregnancy hormones excuse for, well, anything really. Get a grip.

A colleague of mine was pregnant at the same time as me and she was a smug pregnant earth-mom, always full of some esoteric advice. On her last day at work, which was three days before mine she decided to bring a camera to work (phone cameras were mostly crap at the time, yay) so we can take a picture to compare our bellies. Didn't take no for an answer. She was insulted as I worked from home on her last day. I don't think I could live comfortably with the idea that there is a picture like that out in the world for people to see.
I was fairly busy as we were buying house, moving, settling down so had other problems to worry about. I just took the pregnancy as the usual way of bringing your child to this world with some shitty side-effects such as constant nose bleeds, migraine and back pain. Never understood women who are absorbed in their pregnancy, "love being pregnant" (seriously, what's there to like, the fatigue, heartburn, baby kicking your bladder?) and think the world only revolves around them because they are pregnant. Yes, darling, you and other hundreds of million women on this planet.

Well, the "we are pregnant" normally continues with "we just had a big big poo" (really, both at the same time), "we just had a long sleep" ( thought you said you were cooking dinner), "aren't we so cute today" ( no, the baby is cute, you look like a normal woman with a newborn, i.e. shit due to lack of sleep).

I don't think I was smug, I hope not, but I loved being pregnant. I found it really interesting and it was literally the only time in my entire life that I can remember that I wasn't ashamed of my body. I did indeed have a terrible first six months with the baby so consider me suitably punished for my crimes.

the only time I held my tummy was when I was heavily pregnant and when I was at work to try and support it as I was on my feet all day. nobody knew except a few people and my manager I was pregnant as I wore baggy dresses and had a small bump.

Oh god and the people that do that fb weekly thing with a "my baby at 3 weeks" etc.

40 weeks of this! Or thereabouts. I hide those people.

The body isn't doing an amazing thing though is it? It's doing what it was designed for doing.

We'd all be a lot more "amazed" (or rather, extinct) if it didn't do it.

I agree with the hormone excuses , you can't have it both ways, be expected to be treated equally and then for 9 mths blame every fuck up for your hormones. Female hormones do female things all the time.

And spare me chapter and verse, please. I wasn't that interested in my own pregnancy, so I sure as hell don't want to hear every minutiae about yours.

I wish I could've been smug, but I was yakking up most of the time.

My bf was always ribbing me, saying "uh I hope your not going to be one of those women putting your arms around your bump, stroking your bump etc.

When his girlfriend got pregnant 2 years later she was the epitome of smug, I spent the whole afternoon once in Pizza express with him and her just staring at him as she rubbed her bump endlessly.

He did apologise meekly.