honestly some people!!!!

[BellasYummyMummy]

i am 40+10 today and utterly fed up. Anyway, thought i would take my 21mnth DD to sainsburys for a bit of fresh air before we went to the childminders, maybe go feed the ducks etc. After lots of screaming at sainsburys and me clearly losing the plot (think i was shaking at one point), i am in the queue for the checkouts and couldnt believe what the checkout lady said to me! She was still serving the lady in front and told her to turn around and look at the size of me, so i smiled, then replied that i was 10 days overdue. She then went on to ask if i had had a stretch and sweep!! By this point the lady in front and behind and the checkout lady next to her were all ears. I didnt know what to say (meanwhile DD is running off towards the exit). The lady in front didnt know what a S+S was so the checkout proceeded to tell her.. i could have died!
Anyway under normal circumstances i would have laughed as its all rather funny but today wasnt the best day! Just thought i'd share that bit of randomness from my day!

i think i'd have gone bright red and hid under the checkout!

that's a bit over familiar for sainsburys! nice that they're interested but really that's too much!

hope you pop soon!

should of asked her if she'd had a labotomy

she's obviously a very stupid brave woman. These idiotic comments made me rage at people from about 35 weeks. Went 10 days OD too, so I feel your pain!

Hope you get going soon

!!!! not sure which bit is rudest/most shocking

a) commenting on your size
b) asking if you'd had S&S
c) explaining what it was

I can't for the life of me see why you have a
problem with this? She's presumably got kids herself, gone overdue herself and asked out of interest and sympathy.
Why is a medical proceedure so shameful or embarassing??

or

(d) wasting your bloody time when you clearly had better things to do!

TrafficCone - because she should mind her own frigging business, that's why!

How rude! I think I'd have given them the silent treatment.

There are three things you are allowed to say to pregnant women/women with babies:

a) You look lovely
b) What a lovely baby
c) What's your baby's name? (note: do not presume gender!) - and upon receiving the answer - 'that's a lovely name!'

And that's it. The End. Amen to All.

Now, we just need a public megaphone and we can blast it to all!!

(And if one more - really, just one more - person I am looking 'so small!' or any variants thereof I will shoot you and plead pregnancy insanity.... let me just locate and lock and load my gun....)

OP - needless to say, you have my complete sympathy!!!

Edited to add: 'If just one more person tells me I am looking 'so small''

God, I have no brain any more....

People are always telling me I look small - eg another mum at DDs school due at same time as me (a month) but huge in comparison.

I just say - its probably because I have such good stomach muscles, and then pull bump in even more to demonstrate! Its a frame of mind, I see it as a compliment!

Well, with my first one we were told he was measuring small for dates, then told that his liver (in particular) was measuring small, THEN told that we had to go for twice-weekly scans and amniotic fluid testing for the last three weeks and ended up being induced...

Turns out DS was FINE - yes, at 6 pounds 7 full term he was a small baby, but small/normal NOT small/abnormal and all the fears were for nothing....

This time round I'm actually measuring larger-than-average for dates, but still seem to be carrying small (hence all the comments...)

I do know that people mean it nicely (I hope...) but given past history I'm very sensitive about it (not that they can be expected to know past history, obv!)

Sorry, bella - I have totally hijacked your original post - just wanted to reply to MumNWLondon!