To think it was really rude of DH to tell me that I didn't have a pregnancy 'glow'

[rosalina72]

I'm really hurt by my husband's comment. He just asked me 'where's your glow? I thought all pregnant women got the glow.' I mean, honestly, I know I'm not 'glowing' but I don't think I look like s**t either. I am just being overly sensitive?

don't worry, i'm not glowing for sure!

tired, grumpy and sore (and only 24 weeks!)

(but fwiw i'd be a bit gutted if dh said that to me...hope you cried and he's made it up to you?!)

Being overly sensitive is pg perogative

But anyway, back to your dh. He needs a bit of gentle guidance in how to make it through the next x months and keep both balls and all dinner plates intact.

Do you have a male friend who has already become a Dad? Send him out for a beer with said friend

Failing that tell him, the glow comes from being well loved and looked after,

Sounds like he wasn't purposefully rude - just clueless!
Give him some handy hints on helping you feel glowing - preferably involving him doing housework, cooking your dinner, buying you presents etc.

Tell him those women have dp's who send them to be pampered at the spa...

...so book you an appointment

Clip him round the ear. Then tell him extreme reaction to provocation is a hormonal side effect of pregnancy so he'd better bloody well behave himself for the next however many months you have left. Cheeky git.

There should have been a there, I'm not hugely in favour of physical violence...

Agree with Heated!

lol, i 'glowed' once for dh to comment. untill i pointed out i had just been puking repeatadly in the loo and i def didnt feel 'glowy'

Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions. I like the idea of the spa! I agree with Jackstini, I also think DH wasn't intentionally mean just completely clueless! I should sit him down and explain a few things about pregnancy or maybe just make him spend some time on mumsnet! That'll get him up to speed!

what the f* is a pregnancy glow?

is it when you look slightly less rough than you ddi in the first 3 months?

Glow? GLOW?????

I didn't bloody glow! I glowered a lot perhaps...

DP has done the same lately, I have had 'Isn't it amazing how your body makes you have a fat arse for fat stores' and he calls me his 'big beautiful woman' erm less of the big thanks.

I just know he's clueless and when I repeat what he has said to him he realises how awful it sounds and apologises.

i would have told him quite pointedly that at conception i didn't have an orgasm glow either!