To find it wierd when couples announce ''We are pregnant!''?

[poshsinglemum]

No- you the woman are pregnant.

I am being pernickity tonight.

I hate this, it really winds me up....

Ah - they are just excited.

Even they know that he isn't pregnant, but they are both having a baby.

I don't like this phrase either, thought it was just me. Always makes me think of the smug marrieds off the Bridget Jones film - where bloke is rubbing wife's tum and telling Bridget she should get sprogged up or some such nonsense.

Agree - they are excited! Why would you want ot begrudge them this?

I hate it too.

"We're expecting a baby!" - absolutely fine

"We're pregnant"! - irritating beyond belief.

totally annoying IMO.

Yes G&T - we're having a baby is fine just not we're pregnant it's just odd and wrong.

I tend to look around for the nearest blunt instrument when I hear people exclaiming this. Its just one of those expressions which immediately gets my back up.

Whats more, is it me or is this generally said by a certain organic lentil munching class type?

I don't begrudge excited couples although i admit i do get a bit jealous as i wasn't in a couple when pregnant.
i just think it is annoying. no problem with were expecting a baby. that's really sweet.

I totally agree G&T - 'we're expecting', 'we're having a baby' are both fact. 'We're pregnant' is in no way accurate.

I don't like it either and find the folk who do this go on to start calling each other Mummy and Daddy in a way I consider both twee and creepy.

I frigging' can't stand it. Just dreadful. Apart from biologically impossible.

Its just a step away from the male half of the partnership saying "we're not having any pain relief".

Agree wholefartedly. 'We're having a baby' - fine. 'We're pregnant' - no, you're fecking not.

well, maybe some couples are just annoying

buuut... my fiance and I are really going to hell and back TTC and are just 8.5lbs away from being the right bloody weight for the fertility clinic to accept us so we can actually find out what the bloody hell is wrong with us...

... obviously, like a pregnancy, these things are all down to me, but we're in it together so when (not if!!) it does happen we will be announcing that we are pregnant

I dont like that at all!! We are having a baby fine we are pregnant not I dont like the saying "trying" for a baby (although we tried for 3 years) it makes it sound like a chore! But what else would you say?

I am so tempted to say "great when are you going on Oprah to talk about........does the science world know?"

This is something that gets to me too!

We have some American friends who say this as the norm and when I told them that I was pregnant my pedantic part totally overruled my trying to accommodate their linguistic choices part, and it came out as something like 'Hey, guess what? We're pr..aving a baby!!'.

OK i am gonna come in and upset the trend....

When i was pg, I told everyone 'we are pregnant'

If we ever had another (not that we are together atm but...) i would say the same thing again.

We do it togther (maybe not literally) so I say WE are pregnant, when WE had the baby etc etc etc

I LOVE IT

Yeah, well, at least they didn't tell you AT THE DINNER TABLE that they were TRYING FOR A BABY! Put's you right off your roast chicken that does.

I never understand why anyone would announce that they are trying for a baby (and quite a few people do). Its excruciating embarrassing, conjures up disturbing images and is quite heartbreaking if time goes by and she doesnt get pregnant. This is a definite too much information thing IMO

meltedchocolate - just us two then. lol

KERALA1 - but why wouldn't you announce it? I think its quite an exiting part of being in a couple, when you decide to try for a baby and tell everyone lol

Hmm. Wasnt so great when my friend (wrongly IMO) told all and sundry at work they were ttc then had to have IVF, meaning she ended up "updating" people she didnt know that well about the whole process. She really regretted not keeping her mouth shut.

Agree with we're pregnant being annoying.

Also think telling people you don't really know you're ttc is oversharing.

I also think it´s a bit twee.
Do people reallly announce that they are TTC?

Blöödy hell, we never "announced" my pregnncy until I was about 18 weeks!