So what do you do when the woman on the checkout in Sainsburys asks you if you had IVF to get your twins?
I had a dreadful shopping trip today - what should have been a quick visit before picking DD1 up from school turned into a marathon with a 25 minute wait at the checkout, so I wasn't in the best of moods to answer this one. I am normally friendly and chatty to the ladies on the checkout - I'm in there so often, many of them recognise me and the girls!
But I think it's extremely personal (I don't think I've been asked this one before - not by a complete stranger anyway). She's basically asking me whether I had sex to conceive or if I had to have help (as a friend said to me, maybe she thought I looked too old to conceive naturally - actually, thinking about it, not sure quite what my friend meant by that... ).
Anyway, I was furious and unfortunately for her, there was no queue at the customer services desk so along with having a moan about the lack of check-out staff at a consistently busy time, I mentioned that I objected to being asked such a personal question. I think I might have over-reacted, but I was soooo I was shaking.
It just pisses me off that because we have twins, people think questions like that are ok. I doubt any singleton parents have ever been asked the same question.
So, dear multiple mummies, how would you react to that particularly personal question?
And breathe......