To think you don’t complain about being pregnant...

[Veryfeduphear]

...when waiting in the queue for a coffee and the person serving you is also heavily pregnant?

This woman came across as very entitled and stuck up. Loudly complaining that she shouldn’t have to wait behind others in the queue due to her being eight months pregnant and at this stage she should apparently be resting all the time.

Meanwhile my colleague- also eight months pregnant- is working 9 hour shifts with half an hour break.

So AIBU to think this woman should stop complaining very loudly in our queue and is very entitled?

FWIW she’s a regular who my workmates know well (I’m only new) and from past conversations know she doesn’t have to work. Her pregnancy has gone well and she has no other issue that would mean she couldn’t stand in a queue. She also knows my colleague is pregnant.

If you’re too heavily pregnant to wait for a cup of coffee you’re too heavily pregnant to be in work. YANBU.

Someone should have told her to go home if she felt that bad and possibly even reminded her that the caffeine would be worse for the baby than waiting in the bloody queue. X

If it's that painful to stand in a queue when 8 months pregnant then do without the item. Coffee is a luxury not a necessity.

I don't think people should complain about it full stop. They chose to get pregnant (in most cases) but bleat on about how people won't go out of their way to help or their husbands are moaning because they've decided they are too ill to do anything.

Geez it was a queue for coffee not the loo. What a whiner.

Eh, I'm pretty sure I had some totally unreasonable grumps when that pregnant. But yes it was a daft thing to say.

I complained a lot due to hyperemesis, spd and carpal tunnel. However I only complained to family, not work colleagues or random shop employees. I certainly didn't expect special treatment just because I was pregnant, I wouldn't even park in the parent and child spaces at full term when it was hard to get in and out of the car.

well.. to be fair some women will find pregnancy more painful and difficult than others... no way would I have been able to work OR stand in line for a coffee at that stage of my first pregnancy... couldnt even walk to the end of the road...

But in costa and other chain coffee places they do usually tell you to sit down and bring the coffee over to you when they see you are heavily pregnant... ive never actually asked them to do that however and would not expect it.... but it has happened every time ive gone for a coffee in the last couple of months (39 +4 at the mo) So perhaps thats what this woman has gotten used to?
V insensitive of her to make a scene about it in front of another pregnant women however.

@letsallhaveanap OMG where do you live? I certainly never got that anywhere (neither did I expect it). I didn’t even always get a seat on a train or bus.