'We're' pregnant

[RainbowsAndUnicorns5]

Obviously I'm an awful person aibu to bristle whenever someone says this?

It reminds me of Thatcher announcing 'We Are To Be A Grandmother'.

Yep find it very irritating

Yep - irritating ridiculous twee thing to say. Bleurgh.

It really should be a shooting offence.

So when DH tugs at his shorts or trousers can I ask him if he's adjusting 'our balls'?

YANBU at all!!
We're going to have a baby - TRUE
We're going to be parents - TRUE
We're expecting a baby - TRUE
We're pregnant - FALSE
The woman is pregnant, the man cannot be pregnant so this is not correct and therefore the pregnancy should not be stated as a WE!!!
This really irritates me perhaps more than it should

littlelion
Omg 'Mummy's carrying a new baby' is the cutest thing I ever heard

I don't like the expression either op, did anyone else see those hilarious pregnancy announcement photos that did the rounds on social media last year- it was a woman puking up in the toilet in the background and a guy with a stupid friggin grin on his face taking a picture in the foreground with a thumbs up and the caption 'we're pregnant!'

I wanted the put my fist straight through the screen every time I saw one...

Being pregnant is a medical situation for a women. You can't be a man and get pregnant. If a dad-to-be took a pregnancy test, it would be negative!

Dads to be are expecting a baby, they are going to have a baby, they are parents.

It doesn't negate their role, they simply biologically cannot be pregnant.

Ive seen loads of pregnant men, huge guts on them: I think it's their six pack of beer

The phrase does strike me of a "me too, me too! Don't forget me too!" Which is utterly tedious and infantile. Just grow a pair of tits already.

Unless you're ready to have a baby implanted in your liver, you are not pregnant mr man, so pipe down and get your pregnant partner whatever she needs!

Yuck

I'm creeped out enough by your husband for both of us Bertie

It's just another way for a man to claim something from a woman.

Worse still, a guy I know set up a Twitter feed for his unborn (female) baby. 'She' Tweeted regularly from the womb.

YANBU.

If we're pregnant, why am I the one sat here on MN with restless fucking legs and nausea so bad I feel like I'm on a fucking boat? While DH merrily snores upstairs in bed fucker?

Men can fuck right off with saying we're pregnant. I am pregnant. He is a tosser who can sleep whenever the fuck he wants.

DH being weirdly involved (he was the one having weird cravings, morning nausea, and mysterious metallic tastes whereas I had none of that

that sounds incredibly irritating. What a drama llama. Imagine him while you were in labour, he'd be moaning for an epidural.

throughthickandthin01
Yes it is a one person event. Men cannot get pregnant.

The only man I know who insisted on this bullshit also said things like, "we don't want pain relief in labour". I did break at one point and say, "I'm sure YOU don't need pain relief but the person in labour might". Total knobber.

bertiebots being involved doesn't mean he was actually pregnant. I think my patience would have worn very thin if my DH was twatting around like that.

YANBU, it really makes me cringe.

When one person is pregnant (overlapping with another pregnant person) than yes, it's correct to say "we're pregnant" - so maybe a couple where both are women; or sisters or BFFs.

As a man cannot be pregnant, then the "we" cannot include a male person.

It's a phrase I find really grating.

It's unMumsnetty

Nuff said?

Women who say this usually have a hubby or hubster

I think yanbu

It leads to me having to listen to statements like 'we didnt want an epidural'

I hate it too. It also makes me cringe. I agree that it's a way of a man taking some control over the nine months ahead. He is saying 'you may be carrying our child inside you but don't forget it's mine too'.
After all, the Mother developes a strong bond with her child because it's inside her every minute of the day. The Father doesn't have that privilege.
If it's used in tv drama, especially American drama as someone has pointed out, i instantly take a dislike to the character.

YANBU. I really hate this phrase and anyone who uses it really irritates me.