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. 
AIBU?
First person to ever be pregnant in the whole wide world.
User1234567891011 · 08/11/2016 11:49
according to the bible was
was Lillith, Adam's first wife before Eve.
Lilith isn't in the Bible . It's a Jewish story (written hundreds of years after the start of Christianity).
how many 8 weeks' pregnant women she has ever given up her seat on public transport for?
I'm pretty uncomfortable with some of the views on this thread. I don't need a seat on public transport now at 22 weeks, but I was in a wheelchair completely unable to walk at 11 weeks.
And I probably haven't ever given up a seat to a woman in early pregnancy either, because I wouldn't have known to, largely due to the sort of attitudes expressed on this thread that suffering silently through pregnancy is somehow more virtuous, so women don't talk about it.
Now I know how utterly awful early pregnancy can be (and have had to listen to all the 'its only pregnancy' crap from people who had a much easier time of it), I would give up my seat willingly.
You have no idea how hard someone else's pregnancy is.
OP - I think you really should try to direct your acquaintance towards a parenting board. I gather there is one called NetMums which sounds as though it might suit her. HTH.
Oh my, can you imagine if first-pregnancy-ever woman naively wanders into AIBU? 
The only pregnancy in the village I kbew of was on her 4th pregnancy. Every suggestion of going out (eg for coffee) or doing anything related to other children was met with the same response "Not in my condition!"
Space ... evil 
it would be cruelty (all round) for the OP to direct this woman to a nest of vipers.
I have encountered the first ever person to be pregnant at work. The worst for me was them constantly turning the conversation back to their pregnancy. It gets rather boring to be honest.
My colleague also had grand plans for a natural labour using hypnobirthing which she mentioned to me roughly every five minutes. I couldn't help think, You wait love, you'll be deliriously demanding an epidural after an hour .
All you can really do is nod and smile though.
I met a woman like this at the triage area of the maternity department at hospital. All women sitting there for various reasons, I assume. I'd guess that some were about to find out they were having a miscarriage, poor women. She came in huffing and moaning and ordering her husband around. It was as though she was incapable of moving. She seemed to want people fussing around her and everybody to notice her. I noticed it but ignored it. She then asked why I was there... I found it so odd that she thought it was ok to ask the private medical information of strangers. I gave a non-commital answer and she jumped straight in to telling me how I was soooooooo lucky that I didn't have a breach baby and she was there because they wanted to discuss the idea of a c-section and she was in so much pain and I couldn't possibly understand it. She had no idea they I was there. I wasn't bloody lucky at all 
She hadn't really wanted me to answer, just wanted to tell me it was worse for her. I mainly smiled and nodded. I did sympathise with her and understand that it must be so painful. My ribs are bent from my first baby! But attempting to garner sympathy from a roomful of ill and worried pregnant women seemed so attention seeking and irritating.
She seemed a little put out when she realised I wasn't as far gone as her and had a much bigger belly and also when she realised I had had a baby before. I had my first child very young so most people wanted to pass on 'advice' thinking I was a first time mom when I have more experience than they do. I saw her again a few times when I was being checked out and actually in a hospital bed. She was nearby and kept mouthing 'are you ok, what's up?'. I pulled the curtain around my bed and requested that the midwives keep it that way so she couldn't pretend to be concerned about me and compete.
I had a serious complication during my first pregnancy/labour and almost died. I was apparently also lucky that my baby didn't die! The reason I was in hospital so much with my second was because the same problems were happening again with a few added extras. I also had a very stressful pregnancy, providing physical care for my mother in law whilst suffering from spd and then watching her die, so my midwife was very closely involved in things. Obviously didn't tell her any of that because it's none of her bloody business. Then the birth didn't exactly go to plan. But in reality, the really serious stuff didn't happen and it was all ok. I moaned a reasonable amount to close family and friends, but would never attempt to 'outdo' an unknown woman in a hospital triage room with worst pregnancy. I did want to tell her to get a grip but kept it to myself.
I don't think that it's being pregnant that does it to people, they are probably already attention seekers.
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