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 ...

Splendide it was literally the only time in my entire life that I can remember that I wasn't ashamed of my body. same!! Loved it!

I hope I wasn't smug about it though.

Eeyore *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!"*

Um, yeah?? We just called it 'the baby'.

Another thing I hate is when people say 'Baby' as if that's its name. 'How's Baby today? And Mum?' Aaaaargh want to kick the mw in the face whenever they say that. Smug by proxy.

Hmm, bold fail!

The pregnancy 'smugness' is a lovely thing. Especially with a first pregnancy. I think of it as a kind of ritual sacrifice sort of thing. A naiive woman is made to feel like a beautiful queen, fussed over, given gifts etc. Then suddenly bam, she's chucked in the volcano/gives birth and never sleeps again.

I don't personally go for the whole 'we're pregnant' and cutesy nickname stuff, but whatever gets your through morning sickness and hormone hell. Pregnancy is amazing and shit in equal measure so if people want to twee it up, go for it.

I'm an unashamed bump rubber. This baby was much wanted and waited for so I'm not going to pretend I'm not thrilled.

I've had to hide someone on my FB..

She was an extremely smug pregnant woman. And it wasn't even her first!

She was having twins and it was right down to the twincesses. My eyes nearly rolled out of my head after that.

I was hoping now they are born we wouldn't hear as much. 4 kids, single mum, not much time to post right? Wrong. Every day has at least 30 new pictures of the new additions.

Same Louchelady.

Currently a First timer and yes, I'm enjoying my very much wanted pregnancy as we had fertility treatment - I've no problem being smug.

So if I wanna stroke my bump to stop baby from kicking me in the nether regions I will. DH has also rubbed my bump when we've been out and about when baby is kicking the bejazzus outta me-nothing wrong with it, it's his baby too.

Live and let live.

I know the title says "light hearted" but I really found the OP horrible and judgemental. I don't think just writing "lighthearted" always makes it so. It's sad that being excited and happy is now called "smug".

It's not really 'smug', it's the women who think they are the first woman in the world to be pregnant. I'm happy for anyone happily pregnant but please don't think I am interested in every nuance and development of your pregnancy and please don't think that every time I casually ask how you are (as I would anyone I work with or see socially) that I'm asking about your baby!

I agree soupdragon and dowhatyoulove

I loved being pregnant and had no problems. Yes I may have been lucky, but I was so happy after wanting a baby for a while.

I don't think this is as lighthearted as you are trying to make out. Don't worry about others, if it bothers you now it will only get worse once baby is here. There are a million more potentially causes of annoyance then!

I agree with the other posters that this is a really sad and mean spirited thread. I was definitely "smug" throughout all of my pregnancies, even though the second ended at 16 weeks and I was in and out of hospital with the third. I definitely didn't think I was "a special snowflake" but I was just thrilled to actually be pregnant again/carrying to term so I think I had my hands on my belly for the entire pregnancy. Women really will rip into other women for anything.

What the hell is going on with the world. It's sad that this is even a thread.

Pregnant woman touches her bump with her hand whilst walking around in public, what a smug cunt.

Your post might have intended to be 'light hearted' but the amount of people that actually agree with you is weird.

Weird, weird, weird.

Oh and a birthday card for a father to be from the bump isn't what if describe as smug.

Again, weird of you to think so.

Bloody hell!

Are you really pregnant op?

I was well smug during pregnancy with ds2 (not twee smug. We were not pregnant, I bloody was. More the earth mother, oh my body is doing what is was made for and I feel amaaazing smug) and I was paid back with interest by spending my pregnancy with ds3 in pain, exhausted, mad as a box of frogs (I once called a bus driver a cunt and offered him out ), legs so swollen fluid leaked through my skin, looking like shit and seemingly growing on a par with the foetus. I always held the bump though. I also spoke and sang to it. I don't miss anything about being pregnant with ds3 apart from the rush of joy when I felt him move and patted the bump!

"We're pregnant" really annoys me too. No. Your wife/girlfriend is pregnant.

And yes I had someone constantly say "you're pregnant not ill" to me because they had had easy pregnancies and thought I was being a drama queen by being on light duties to avoid early labour.

Eeyore I called mine by his name.

The smugness doesn't bother me especially if its first pregnancy. I was likely the same re: bump rubbing.

If they are feeling well let them enjoy it, after all it's only for a short while before the horror really starts!

I called mine by his name.

Which is fine if you know the sex and want to tell everyone the name before the baby is born.

Dragon It's just a name what's the big deal with not telling everyone? Seems over the top.

That's fair about the sex, I thought most people find out?

I loathed being pregnant and was miserably ill the whole time, but I quite liked seeing other women enjoying theirs. It was nice to know that at least somebody was getting to enjoy the experience.

That said I did have to stop posting on one mostly-American pregnancy board because I couldn't take one more "here's a sneak peek preview of our gender reveal photoshoot!", but I appreciate they weren't doing it at me.

It's just a name what's the big deal with not telling everyone? Seems over the top.
It welcomes every man and his dog to voice their opinion on the name which they don't seem to do when the baby is actually here. Also, some people don't firmly decide names until their baby is born and they can see them. I didn't decide DD2's until she was born.

I'm so torn on this. I've been through infertility and recurrent miscarriage so I do tend to give daggers to smug pregnant women. But, with dd I did have moments of smugness and I loved my bump.

But pregnancy is grim really. Pregnant again and at 10 weeks I have a bump (bloat) that gives me a stitch if I walk quickly so already I'm rubbing my 'bump".

I always found it a bit difficult to avoid putting my hands on my bump all the time. For all of my pregnancies I had a massive, blobby bump (I was sooo envious of women with nice neat bumps!) and it did get in the way a bit.

It probably seemed to other people like I was insufferably smug. I don't care. It took us 8 years to have a live baby and I was so full of the total joy of it that I didn't care about the SPD pain, horrid sickness, back ache or anything else. I felt so lucky, but also like I'd be found out at any moment and exposed as a total fraud for not having a "proper" pregnancy (we had fertility treatment).

What is absolutely certain is that I was a precious nightmare once the baby was born. I soon learned though, like most people do. It's all part f the process.

I've had horrific hyperemesis and have been off work for 6 weeks. I'm only just into the second trimester so not stroking bump or arching back etc.

We're definitely not pregnant, I've been the one puking my guts out, but I don't begrudge people being excited about their pregnancies. The human body is an amazing thing and I'm always in awe of what it can do (even though in my case the main thing it is good at is making me feel shit).

I still don't really feel pregnant either but once I do I'll play it by ear and do whatever I feel like doing. I have an instagram account where I've been documenting my pregnancy but haven't shared it with anyone so I'm not boring people I know. I haven't announced the pregnancy on facebook and have no intention of doing so! But if people do, good for them.

Pregnancy is boring and takes fucking ages. I don't think it's smug to do little things to make it feel more enjoyable.

I'm uncomfortable calling an unborn baby by the name you're going to give it. I can't quite put my finger on why. We don't find out the gender so wouldn't be possible anyway.

God forbid anyone actually enjoy being pregnant.

Touched a nerve, Pixie?