Ok, so colleagues are actually laughing at me when I walk past them now. I'm fed up with being the butt of all the jokes.

[MassiveBumperlicious]

Am 33 weeks and have put up with a lot of ribbing, 'are you sure it's not twins' [original] and 'look out it's an eclipse' but now people are actually just sniggering or even pointing and laughing at me when I walk past them at work.

I feel like a freak show. I don't even like it myself. It's not a vanity thing, I can cope with not being my usual size, but I feel like a caricature, huge and waddling. I feel like I look obscene. I'm not even that big! The MW says I am spot on but being short I seem huge, I feel fucking huge and I am sick of people goggling at me when I say I still have 7 weeks to go and no I am not ready to drop.

Enough everyone! There is more to me than being fucking pregnant!

Ok, rant over. As you were.

Thanks Bumper, I did go to bed feeling a bit better after that whinge!

great x im working up until the end, and people look at me and look sympathetic, and some dont even relise im pregnant xx im 4ft 11 and the size of a house, well a 26 in trousers and have spd, and the only thing i can do is waddle at 2 miles an hour xxx wish people would understand that pregnancy effcts people diffrently,not all of us are meant to be blooming and walking on air. xx im 33wks with gd, spd, and too much water, and constantly in pain, im a woman on the edge xx nxt person gonna get it both barrels

34 weeks and errr large-ish but not obscene I don't think! Went to a neighbours retirement do last week and one older lady asked me how I was ''apart from my size'', mwhahahahahahaha. She then proceeded to tell everyone I looked great and I was very well ''apart from my size''.

At 38 weeks, my friend today said "so are you feeling huge", actually no I am not! I don't think I am that huge, was surprised as she got lots of comments re: twins etc as she had GD so feeling a little

I know exactly how you feel Bumper but just rise above it. I've felt so depressed about how I look in the last few months of all four of my pregnancies, but now I look at women in the last stages of theirs and just think they look great. Your body is doing a wonderful, healthy thing that it was made to do - what could be more naturally beautiful?
Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant or jealous imo!

i get the same thing from my (male) boss at work every time he sees me - each time he comes in my office he checks to see what im eating, if i am eating he'l say something like "oh what a shock to find you eating again? hahaha" and if im not eating its " oh my, ur not eating, r u feeling ok?" then when we bump in the corridoors he makes a joke of turning sideways to let me past (cos im sooo wide) and saying the whole "r u sure ur due on that date? ur filling out quite a bit now?" i even had - "im quite shocked at seeing somebody get so big in such a short period of time"
Btw, i had a checkup 2 days ago and im bang on for my dates and so not huge at all. i have to keep making out its not bothering me and tell him to be quiet and what not but its seriously becoming tedious now...every single day he comes out with something.

Why do people feel the need to comment on how 'huge' pregnant women look? If you want to say i look small for my dates, go right ahead, ill love u forever but please, leave out the 'gosh, 11 weeks to go, but ur so big already' comments!

Totally feel for u! Think we need to just ignore them, grin and bare it for another few weeks, then laugh at their beer belly's wen urs has gone back to normal!

YummyMummy - but I remember when anyone commented I looked small for my dates I would think 'Aaaaarrrgghh, there is something wrong - my baby is not growing properly'... I also used to really hate it when people said I was 'Glowing'... ugh, atrocious word.
Personally I think the golden rule is that a pregnant woman's appearance should not be commented on at all cos nine times out of ten it will be taken as abuse

Oh yes the turning sideways joke ha ha ha ha ha ha !

I'm not really going to complain officially to anyone, just want to vent. Besides, their insensitivity gives me leave to be spiky back, I have physically threatened a few of them now - all as a joke you understand

I know no one means it horribly, if they were being horrible they would get what for, or I'd just cry, equally effective as a deterrent I find! I'll just grin and nod and threaten to hit them and we'll all laugh and I will have to physically restrain myself

Now the one (man) who started recommended Gina Ford to me, he's on a special reserve list mwah ha ha ha!

DCMB do you just assume all pregnancy whinges on here are me (not unreasonably I might add ) or is it your familiarity with the sensitivity of the people at work that led you think it was me? Hope you are enjoying your break

Before I answer that, do you know where I live?

Erm, a bit the turn of phrase, a bit the number of idiots there are there, and a bit more their irresistible attraction towards pissing you off.

My break is fabulous - I am actually beginning to think DD is staying in bed a little too late in the mornings!

Childish I know...but...

If you ever get sooooo fed up could you reply to any comments:

'Yes I'm massive now. But I'll lose the weight and belly. But you'll always be a horrible, ugly fucker'

Maybe save this for your last day at work....