First person to ever be pregnant in the whole wide world.

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Don't get me wrong - pregnancy is the most extreme thing I can think of happening to a human body without even getting to the whole birth part.

I know complaining and grumbling is completely within the right of any pregnant person and it is normal for there to be pain etc in pregnancy.

However. How many of you have ever had to listen (mine is over FB and in person) to someone who acts like they're the first person to ever be pregnant (you know what I'm talking about). Moaning and complaining constantly over the tiniest of things, even if they're not exactly pregnancy related they somehow become because of it!

Example: ''My headache is so bad, pregnancy is so hard, I didn't realise it would be this awful! I'm going to have to go to the doctor to get some strong painkillers''. This is at about 6 weeks.

Space Unicorn I nearly shoved her childcare certificate up her arse when she told me I should give birth standing up. And why wasnt I tweaking my nipples in preparation for BF?

No, I worked with the first person ever to get pregnant. Fact.
At the time, all of the female staff had children, except me. But nobody ever had the experience she had. Thankfully there was no Facebook back then.

YANBU. You are not being mean. You are spot on about a certain kind of solipsistic person when they are pregnant. Pretty unbearable.

And I've found with that kind of person it is impossible to overstate their utter lack of interest in anyone else's pregnancy, birth, baby etc. So in no sense is it ever a reciprocal obsession/ moan. Gah.

Sorry your all mistaken... Isnt *billy/sam faires the first person in the world to have ever been pregnant

• sorry, I dont know which ones which but its the 1 whoever is on that programme where her fella is obsessed with his mum and kisses her on the mouth, and they called the baby paul because he wanted too

Wait till pfb arrives and the constant updates/photos on every social medium!!

An ex friend made me carry 8 bags of shopping (not heavy - relevant) when she was 6 weeks pregnant. The bag I asked her to carry had 2 lettuces in it. She said "I'm carrying a child, isn't that enough"?

2 lettuces.

Some people are just like that. Just smile and if she makes you listen to it. And unfollow her on FB.

If she weren't pregnant then there would be some other reason why she is an extra special person.

In fairness to her though, I genuinely did need a seat on the train at 8 weeks, far more than I did even at 38 weeks!! First trimester is awful for some women.

I wonder how she will cope with labour, and hope she can be less self centered when the baby arrives.

Ugh #feelingblessed

I disliked pregnancy but hid half of it because of a previous miscarriage. I don't mind people moaning, I much more disliked those who went on about how great and magical it was and how they'd had no issues whatsoever. I consider myself so fucking lucky but i know how it feels to be so very unlucky too.

But I hate fb over sharing which is why I use unfollow a lot and have nothing on fb myself.

Im also now worried after seeing people driven crazy by unsolicited advice. I'm already being told 'that was fine in my day' about reusing decade old matresses and that I should be doing x, y and z and not give up at it. And baby isn't born yet! Plus half my family and friends are teachers or in Healthcare

At six weeks her "child" is about this size: Not very heavy. When it comes out it will likely be somewhere between six and ten pounds in weight and she'll be expected to heft it on one arm whilst lifting and opening a folding pram with the other. Tell her she needs to carry the lettuces in order to get some practice in.

Lol. I talked a lot about being pregnant but was more along the lines of 'I have no FUCKING clue what to do arghhh' in fact, I only think I moaned about alignments once on FB. That may have been the only time I mentioned pregnancy at all in fact

My MIL went on about my pregnancy more than what I did

Annoying as they are, I find they tend to be the ones who had trouble conceiving, miscarriages, ectopics etc. So I try to cut them some slack. (Some hideous stories here,of course.)

Of course there will be a deluge of people saying the ones they know were pregnant within minutes of trying, but people don't always advertise their infertility.

oh yes i have one. buy 20 scan photos. group text everyone in phone book because it is so important to everyone else. sex reveal in front of whole family. feel sooooo ill etc etc. sooo annoying and stressful my pfb was stillborn last year

obvs i am completely over the moon and a little excited for them myself but yeah its wearing thin. halfway through now luckily haha!

Sheba Not that I'm judging her but she is 20 odd and fell pregnant by accident with her now ex. Just letting you know that's the situation, it wasn't a ''trying for ages thing'' That I would understand and happily just ignore online/nod along when in person.

This thread is a bit mean spirited. Being pregnant for the first time is the biggest thing to ever happen in their world.

She obviously considers you to be a good friend if you knew she was pregnant at 6 weeks,

Not necessarily - I was recently at a PTA coffee morning and a woman I barely know announced to a group of about 8 of us that she was pregnant. Lovely, we said, how far along are you? About 5 weeks

A mate of my husband is the worst (well I say mate, her husband used to work with my husband about 3 years ago or so, that's how he knows her).
She added me on fb so I accepted.
She already has a 16 month old son, and is due her second baby in April next year.
Every day there is endless statuses about her son, and the pregnancy. I know pregnancy can be hard, but I sometimes think you've done it all before, it's not like you don't know about it.
Things like complaining she's tired, or hungry, or feeling sick. Saying her son is annoying her for various reasons. Saying how she hates being pregnant and doesn't feel like doing anything.
As I said I feel for her and know how it can be, but I simply got on with it when I was pregnant.

Its not mean spirited, I just think its really, really relatable and you can't really talk to people in your social circle about it incase they pass it on.

If she bothers you, unfollow. It's only get worse leading up to the due date and after the baby arrives.

In fairness, I had horrific headaches that started in pregnancy. Now on daily medication for life to keep them away. I thought my head was exploding.

Although if she's got form for it, it may just be sympathy fishing.

Hah I'm getting close to blocking someone like this

She kept the pregnancy quiet...but you know the baby was born

She takes photos of the notebook she writes in. Things like what bottle he had, how many ounces, nappy change, sick etc etc. Then uploads it on FB

If he's sick, she posts a photo up of where he was sick. Usually on her

she frequently posts her Amazon wish list with "baby would love this. Anyone love him?"

Now he's weaning, I see photos of food smothered all over his face...

I had a friend like this, Well TBF. Not so much her.
I'll do my best to explain in a none she said abs she said kind of way.
Chat shit alert. Brace yourselves......
A B C D were friends. A was pregnant. B abs C were obsessed with her pregnancy
Fussing over her. Yes I know pregnant women get s fuss made of them. I had my fair share of fuss, but. There's fussing and there's being obsessive. D BTW aka me was bored quite frankly and yes jealous. I'll hold my hands up.
You'd think she was getting ready to birth a future king or Queen. I doubt Kate Middleton got as much attention and red carpet treatment as she did.
And no her pregnancy wasn't the result of IVF or years of TTC.

Actually I think I might be the first person ever to be pregnant...and I couldn't care less. Okay I try my hardest not to moan and I make a conscious effort, because I'm extremely thankful to be carrying a healthy baby after years of miscarriages and loosing our son. We thought we'd never have a baby, so yes I have a weekly bump update and I do tend to talk about my blossoming pregnancy probably too much.
I'm happy for people to unfollow me or unfriend me I'm sure it's bloody annoying, but then there's a lot of people who are ecstatic for us that we are finally having a baby and like my little updates....plus I don't really care what people think :)

Maybe she's just super happy to be pregnant....hard or not?
Unfollow her

It was.much easier before the internet :) for my first, I spent my pre birth maternity leave eating cakes from m&s and watching Richard and Judy

SpaceUnicorn said exactly what I was going to say.