It's started already...

[PregnantGrrrl]

I'm currently expecting DC2, i already have an 11mth old DS. I am already sick of the 'oh i suppose you want a girl this time' 'if it's a boy will you have another one?' 'it'd be shame if it's two boys, be nice to have a girl too...'

and to top it off, i caught FIL telling DS 'you won't be the centre of attention anymore will you?' Er, yes he will- he'll be a big brother and my first born, he'll always the centre of attention, along with DC2.

I'm actually starting to not look forward to my scan next week, because i'm sick of all these comments already.

Oh just ignore them, some people are just thoughtless!

Having 2 boys is great anyway!

aww, you have my sympathies. We had three girls in a row and when the second and third were born, we had some many comments like 'Never mind!'

grr.

that'll be so many...

that's what's peeing me off- it's like people are insinuating my child might not be 'right' or 'good enough' before it's even born, and i really don't care if it's a boy or a girl, but i'm sure people think i'm lying when i say that!

yip. When my son was born, there was a lot of 'Oh, now you can stop', like my two middle girls were just failed experiments or something.

Just ignore them and be very smug that you don't have a weird attitude to having babies like they obviously do.

Fil's comment was a bit though...whats all that about!!!

FIL is tactless. Unsure whether he's a knob, or just thoughtless ATM.

I asked him to not feed DS chocolate biscuits (which he had done a week before) He replied with 'i have brought up kids before you know', as though the biscuits had never happened. I bit my tongue, although i wanted to respond with 'yes, 30 odd years ago, you were never home then f**ked off with another woman'

He also told SIL pregnancy didn't suit her and she looked like she was eating for 6, when she's having relationship worries and feels v.ill too.

I'm sure there's more. If he talks to DS like that again i'll be correcting him. I don't want him told he's not special anymore, or the new baby is more important.