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

[User1234567891011]

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.

[PetalMettle]

I breastfeed but I don't put much stuff about it on my Facebook as I know others have not been able to who'd like to

[mammamic]

YABVU

[Shitonyoursofa]

Mine is someone I know who posted every single thing from the moment of conception (or so it seemed), every single thing they bought, every name they considered, everything. It topped out at a picture of the baby's umbilical cord after it had been removed. A close up picture . I used the 'unfollow' option on FB after that! A lovely person, but what on earth was going through her mind that she thought people would like to see that?!

[Tess123]

I think if it was more talked about how absolutely sh1t pregnancy can be, and just how bloody awful the first year is, after the baby's born, we women wouldn't moan so much. We're in shock, that it's not all the fluffy bunnies we've been led to expect!
It's lucky we love our children above all else; because I would walk through hell before I would ever give that much of myself, again, to anyone else!

[SharkBrilliant]

Someone that I work with keeps complaining about how bad her backache is..... she's three weeks pregnant

[Galena]

I hated people like this so I adopted the phrase, 'I'm fine, I'm pregnant, not ill!'

I kept saying this, through regular crampy pains at 27 weeks.

I stopped saying it when the Dr that night told me my target was to get through the 15 minute blues-and-twos ambulance journey to the hospital in the neighbouring town without delivering my baby.

She stayed inside for 4 more precious days which gave the steroids a chance to strengthen her lungs. She's 7 and awkward now, although she has cerebral palsy as a daily reminder of her start in life...

Now I smile and nod when people complain about pregnancy. Particularly late pregnancy which I never experienced.

[Soozikinzi]

O no..... there's so many like this! Soooo tired!!!! I think yo myself you'll know what tired is when you've got ababy and a toddler!!!!

[Bahhhhhumbug]

There used to be one in our office who from the second she knew at six /eight weeks whatever and months before any sign of a bump would arch her back to lift herself out of her chair and waddle around the room with her hand pressed into the small of her back and her flat stomach thrust forward.

[MargaretCavendish]

I think if it was more talked about how absolutely sh1t pregnancy can be, and just how bloody awful the first year is, after the baby's born, we women wouldn't moan so much. We're in shock, that it's not all the fluffy bunnies we've been led to expect!

As a woman who does not yet have children (but is trying) I think you'd have to be pretty wilfully obtuse to have missed the message that pregnancy and child-rearing are hard. All anyone ever tells you is how hard it is - with, rather unhelpfully, the coda that 'nothing prepares you for how hard it is' and 'it'll be so much harder than you think it will be'.

[LubiLooLoo]

Yeah first 3 months is the hardest, every smell makes you sick, motion makes you dizzy, tonnes of hormones and headaches... I can't say I miss it. It's nice that she can be open about her pregnancy this early, most have to wait 3 months so they never get the opportunity to complain!

Must be annoying to hear all the time though!

[confuddledDOTcom]

People probably thought that about me every time. I was in labour from about six weeks, PGP that I still use the shiny fashion accessories for 11 years later, IBS/gastroparesis that was as crippling as the constant labour. I don't get to be pregnant I get to be ill and go through a medical process. At six weeks first time she might just be excitedly looking at every symptom or maybe like many of us she's genuinely suffering. Give people a break.

[icy121]

Particularly gLling to have to read when you're in the depths of infertility. Oh POOR YOU AND YOUR PINCHY DIAMOND SHOES.

[icy121]

*galling

[Bertucci]

Ooh - a pregnancy bore. One of my friends was like this.

She was waddling and 'bump' rubbing as soon as she got her BFP. I don't think we had a conversation that wasn't about her pregnancy for the next 9 months. She went on to become the most obsessed mother ever.

Hide your friend on FB - she won't know.

[claretsheep]

This has made me laugh because I'm so trying not to be this person at the moment. I haven't announced anything on Facebook but I've had terrible morning sickness and feel myself whinging at work all the time.

[MycatsaPirate]

I had to remove my Dp's nephew's gf from my friends list. Jeez, it was 9 whole months of talking about her bump, then 'can't wait to meet my little man' and 'little man kicking loads' every day - several times a day. Then she had the baby and not only did I then get to read 'love my little man' 13 times a day but she also shared all the posts from the previous year in the time hop thing so I felt like I was reliving her pregnancy again.

On top of all that, this girl, who turned 18 just a couple of days before having her baby and has never worked, posted endless memes about how being a mum is the best job in the world and a whole load of other cringefest crap.

It was utterly nauseating.

I have lots of friends who are having babies. My niece had her baby this week. He is gorgeous. Thankfully I have not been inundated with hourly daily updates on the bump for the last 9 months.

[Carriecakes80]

Firstly, when you are pregnant, you ARE the first person to ever be pregnant! Period! (Or not as it goes!!!) It took me ages to fall pregnant with my second and when I was finally pregnant I had everything wrong, hyperemisis, migraine, scitic nerve pain, SPD, Jesus the list was endless, and while I am a happy soul who usually keeps evrything to meself, I felt the world deserved to hear my pain lol. I loved moaning about my aches and pains, I felt I had earned them, but I only told folk I knew cared about me! Also, as for the folk who post endless mundane rubbish on facial book, Some people are just lonelier than you might realise, so those of you who unfollow people who post daft pics of their dinner or the bloody corns on their feet, might not be simply because they want an audience, might be because secretly, they are unhappy, or lonely, or stressed, and just want to talk to someone, and there is no-one there. I have been guilty of this, not of me dinner p'raps lol, hate foody pics, but of my kids when I was left by my partner. Some folk are downright depressing, I didn't want to be that gal, some are over the top 'Oooh my life is perfect!' didn't want to be her either, so I posted about random boring mundane things, just because I was so frigging lonely and sad, I just wanted a conversation with someone that wasn't my child! What does it cost you to be kind, patient, listen, say 'Ahh well, it won't last too long!' otherwise, if you really cannot stand it, slowly slip out of her life! :-)
#Feelingblessed

Lol

[Aquarius3]

I know a few people like this, taking lots of days off sick at work for no apparent reason other than 'being pregnant' when there's nothing actually wrong with them, no morning sickness or headaches or back ache just abit tired which is to be expected, me on the other hand have had pgp since 6 weeks and been getting progressively worse to the point where I struggle to walk in work and often go home crying as I'm in that much pain...still powering through though and have never even mentioned it on fb etc as it's just one of them things. Fav saying is still 'im only pregnant, it's not an illness!!

[User1234567891011]

In work today she couldn't stand by the window because 'she and the baby would get cold'. Pretty sure its nice and warm where it is!!!!

[ElornaElephant]

My Aunt was like this. Now her DC are 11 months and 2, and the continuous Facebook running commentary and photos continue. Just as well they're my cousins and I think they're sweet and I'm interested in what they get up to - I can imagine a lot of her FB friends are not in agreement

[Kika2901]

You sound a bit mean. Have you been pregnant yourself? I've had experiences where my close friends were very dismissive of my pregnancy (long story) and the ones who had been pregnant before were the worst for it because they had forgotten just how tough it is at times and felt they had the right to judge how I was feeling. I wasn't moaning or complaining about my pregnancy symptoms by any stretch of the imagination, there was a lot more to it than that but my point is, unfollow her on Facebook if you can't bare reading get posts and give get a little sympathy if she talks to you about it face to face, don't slag her off on here. It's two faced!

[TakeAtrainOrHopOnAplane]

Had this with someone who is an over sharer on fb.

Let's see.

We've had the engagement, the looooooooooong drawn out wedding, including pre wedding photos, I've know every single detail of that wedding, so much so, that even though I wasn't invited, I still feel like I was there.

Then we had the staged preggers announcement, now we have daily updates of every minor incident. Oh, sorry missed out the baby shower & all the staged photos and baloney that went along with it.

I think once baby arrives I will have to unfollow.

[TakeAtrainOrHopOnAplane]

And just to add, I LOVE hearing about pregnancies etc and have lots of other fb friends who do share but without the smugness and without the daily updates.

[Notagreatpregnancy]

Some people do suffer....I went several months being told my pains were normal until my appendix burst!

[PrincessSandy]

First off it dont matter where shes at to talk about a child its the same as saying you shouldnt be happy for what you got. Maybe everyone here who states such are jealous but dont work to make themselves happy. Life isnt about work work only supplies ones future. Those with children should know that. Why not think how prud all of this sounds. An actually when your pregnant the basics are you cant take much meds why you go to a doc duh unless you dont care about the well being of her and the child. Whats your answer there? An so yes mean spirited is the word