to not want to put on trousers?

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Bugger. MIL just rang to see if she could "pop round" for a coffee. I'm 40 wks pregnant, and in the southern hemishpere where it's mid summer. AIBU to greet her in knickers and a t-shirt, or do i HAVE to put something else on??

stay as you are!

This would be an excellent reason to pretend you're about to pop to the shops and won't be in, personally.

oh. She actually means "go down to the posh high street and have a coffee". AIBU....?? grumbly putting on horrible restrictive unflattering maternity jeans emoticon

Maybe fake contractions?

Ask her to bring you a takeout coffee. And a cake.

tortoise fake contractions would be a bad idea. She, my mother and my aunt have been circling like vultures all week, in the hope that they "happen" to be there when I go into labour.

Same with fake popping to the shops. "Shops? which shops? I'll come there and help you carry it all!"

So we went out, which meant that i had to don not only trousers, but shoes as well. Bloody unreasonable.

That is unreasonable. You have my sympathy. Especially because it was the posh street. No-one who is 40 weeks pregnant should have to go anywhere posh.

And yes, the fake contractions were always fraught with danger this is true. My waters broke 5 (5!) days before my daughter was born, and I made the mistake of telling the grandparents-to-be because I thought, well, it'll be imminent now, won't it?

(no)

So we spent five days fielding hourly update requests.

Can't you just tell her you aren't feeling up to covering your lower portions? I do feel for you, I was pregnant with dd in Oman. I don't think I wore more than knickers and t.shirt except for my ante-natal visits.