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Stupid things people have said to you

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JennH · 03/02/2004 13:42

I have never heard as much rubbish as i have heard since i had my baby.

Things i get a lot-
What is HE called? (He is a girl and always wears pink)
Aww is she a big sister (said when she was obviously new born)

Am i the only one who has a child that people constantly think is the opposite sex?

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stupidgirl · 27/03/2004 22:25

Twice recently I've been out with dd, ds and my parents dog, and been told 'you've got your hands full, haven't you?' err, no, not really...

Tommy · 27/03/2004 22:38

Great thread!
Can't think of anything that's been said to me that hasn't been said to other people...."Twins then?" (18 months apart) "You've got your hands ful!" etc but my friend who had just had her 4th DS was asked by someone in the park "Didn't you want a girl then?"

kiwicath · 28/03/2004 08:25

After seeing me for the first time after the birth of my son (1 week previous) my accountant said "Oh my God Cathy!!! - are you pregnant AGAIN!!!

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hoxtonchick · 28/03/2004 08:41

I was make-up shopping with my friend who's half-Indian (I'm white) & weighs a lot less than me. Assistant at make-up counter "Are you 2 sisters thten?" Errr, no.

kiwisbird · 28/03/2004 11:45

my he is also a she but when my son was a little girl... arrghh it happens whatever sex they are, people are just annoying!
One on a bus and ds was screaming, I had no space to whip a boob out to shut him up, so I just tried to pacify him as best I could... A STUPID man came up and said "can't you shut that baby up?"
I had to retort with words (no hands free to punch his effing lights out)
So I said
"No mate I can't as I'm really enjoying the noise myself!"

eddm · 28/03/2004 12:03

Hoxtonchick, I got one similar to yours. Shopping for wedding dress with my friend who is 5'10", thin and has straight red hair. Me 5'7", curly brown hair, not exactly thin. Sales assistant: 'Ooh, it's so nice to have your sister as your bridesmaid'!

lou33 · 28/03/2004 12:08

I get that too JMB, mine are 12,7,5,3. Also I get fed up with the amount of times I am asked where they get their white blonde hair from, so now I just say it costs a fortune in bleach.

kiwisbird · 28/03/2004 12:13

we now extoll the virtues of baby perming kits, dd is very curly and my son now 10 is very striaght haired, I now say..
Yes well I am not satisfied with having 2 with striaght hair, I found a great website that does baby perm kits, isn't it great?
Thats usually shuts them up if not I mention the tattoos you can get for babies too

Lisa78 · 28/03/2004 13:23

When DS1 was very tiny and just sitting up, a friend of mine commented that he looked just like a little human.... Hmmm
Did find myself in Next the other week with a woman who had twin girls and actually heard myself saying, moronically, "You must have your hands full with them then!" Whilst thinking, shut up Lisa, shut UP

Chandra · 28/03/2004 14:05

On babies and severe eczema:

-Have you put cream on??

-My children had also dry skin but eczema disapeared with make-up remover cream

-If you allow him to scratch where it itches he will learn not to do it (talking about a 5 months baby with skin so cracked it bleed...)

Chandra · 28/03/2004 14:12

Oh and I forgot:

-There's no such a thing of eczema, to tell you eczema lasts more than 3 months is a lie...

  • And a gp commenting on cluster headache (which is far worse than migraine and DH had suffered for ten years) "I have never heard about such a condition, he should be imagining it...
stupidgirl · 28/03/2004 20:46

Tommy, mine are 2 1/2 years apart, ds was about 4 and dd 18 months or so and I got asked the same - are they twins? Errrrr, no!

twiglett · 28/03/2004 21:26

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lou33 · 28/03/2004 21:32

Cluster headaches. When all your children are whining at once.

Chandra · 29/03/2004 00:43

Yes Twiglett. that was the last time we went to the doctor until pregnancy forced us... So we just went to another surgery and pretended we never had been registered in the other. The next time he needed treatment about CH he printed out the info from the American neurology association and head to the gp, who by the way, didn't know either but was kind enough as to prescribe what was recomended and ask to keep the copy to have a look at it...

slug · 29/03/2004 16:33

The midwife, at the first parenting class, immediatly after we introduced ourselves and established that we were all middle class professionals in our 30's, in a baby voice:

"Now, you know your baby is floating in water...."

It went downhill from there.

Midwife (again) on visiting me at home 10 days after sluglet was born.

"Gosh, you've lost a lot of weight!"

Yes, it's now on my shoulder, dribbling gently and filling it's nappy.

Jimjams · 29/03/2004 21:55

chandra- my friends dh has cluster headaches

OK just remembered this one.

Was interveiwed by local radio as I was starting coffee mornings for parents of autistic kids. Interview took place in my kitchen with sound of coffee morning in the background. Explained a bit about autism etc etc. Then the interviewer asked if she could "have a few words with ds1" (who at the time had his head in the tumble dryer). Had to do a "errr no he can't talk, he's autistic".

Levanna · 30/03/2004 01:25

MY SIL - "HA HA, bl*y hell, look at the size of your belly, it's really big, blah blah blah" she was referring to a pic of me 3 days after DD's birth.......
She's now pg () and has put on nearly a stone.........at 8 weeks gone! So, HA HA HA , back! (Could do with a horned and tailed emoticom!)

champs · 31/03/2004 20:41

my mums only 5ft1 and i am 5ft8 she is very athletic and slim.... I am.... not.
I have been asked on far too many occasions "how did she manage it (childbirth) as if I was born this size!!! I now just say I was 4lb.... and wait for them to see there error.

lady at church after meeting ds2... I didn't even know you were pregnant ??!!!

worst question asked by many about labour... "did it hurt?"

sniggy · 16/04/2004 20:02

My MIL once told me, when DD was newborn, never to leave her in the pram outside a shop while I went in .... I sometimes wonder if she thinks I have a brain at all!

kid · 16/04/2004 20:27

Just had to share this although MIL would kill me if she found out! When her DS1 (now my DH) was born, she left him out side the shop while she got what she needed. When she got home, her mum asked her where the baby was! Without a word, she dropped her shopping and run all the way back to the shop and DS1 was still outside in his pram!

Frenchgirl · 16/04/2004 20:29

kid do we share a MIL???? Or was it common practice in the sixties to leave your child outside a shop and go home without it? My MIL did exactly the same thing.... Bizarre....

Soulfly · 16/04/2004 20:41

I don't know if this is really the topic, but it has jogged my memory. I was on the bus with my ds2 and he was eating a sausage roll, and this old lady asked him what had he had for breakfast. My son repliet very quietly that he had had toast. Then she turned to me and said, 'your not looking after him properly are you love?'. I was so taken back that i didn't know what to say to her. I mean, i know it is probably not the best breakfast in the world, but he doesn't eat cereal or porriage or anything, and at least he eats something. Looking back i find it quite funny but at the time i was so shocked and cross. Even the lady sitting next to me said that was a rude thing to say.

toddlerbob · 16/04/2004 21:05

My mum left me outside Spar, didn't notice till my dad asked where I was!

insanidee · 16/04/2004 21:19

we have toast for brekkie. the kids will rarely touch cereal (tho dd2 loves ready brek, but will still want toast), whats wrong with it? and how rude to ask what he had for breakfast, i wuld've asked her the same thing in return.