Thoughtless things that non-pregnant people/shops/services do that annoy you?

[PukeyMummy]

In Tesco earlier, wanted to buy a Mother & Baby magazine. Obviously the best place to put a Mum & Baby magazine is on the top shelf. Yes, the top shelf.

Obviously not done deliberately or maliciously, just very thoughtless .

I don't really want to get into MIL/DH-bashing, but another example would be DH cooking eggs/fish next to me in the kitchen after I've just told him I'm feeling sick with morning sickness. Or MIL spending the entire weekend banging on about food/new recipes when I've also told her the same.

What thoughtless things do non-pregnant people/shops/services do that annoy you now you're pregnant? The more trivial the better!

(I'm a bit bored today, can you tell?)

DH eating my last treat-sized packet of Cadbury Mini Eggs when he knows the baby needs them!

I got seriously annoyed with some arseholes in M&S foodhall on Saturday charging around with their trolleys and not looking where they were going. I'm nearly 40 weeks and really don't need to be rammed in the back or stomach by some ignorant tosser. Esp. when I'm trying holding my 2 year old too.

Saying "No, you can't use the staff toilets."

My mum making me a hamper at christmas filled entirely with cured meat, blue cheese and alcohol Oh and she slipped in some pate for good measure

Some stupid cow on this bus this morning trying to push past my 37 week pregnant belly (I was standing, no seats offered and when I said 'do you mind please, I am heavily pregnant', she replied 'how the hell am i meant to know. Believe me I am no Nicole Kidman re pregnancy - i look all of my 37 weeks!

When I told a shall-remain-nameless person I'm pregnant again instead of being told congratulations I was told "well see if you keep it before you get excited" and "you might lose it yet". Thanks for the vote of confidence.

My group at work eating bacon sandwiches, meatballs, porridge, and all manner of other food at their desks even though I've made them aware of my morning sickness and the fact there's a perfectly good staff room just ten feet away. So glad I'm on a fit note for the next few weeks.

People feeling that they can comment on the size of your bump - "wow are you sure it isn't twins" "really three more months but you're massive already" - grrrrrrrrr!!!

.. And I'm talking about random strangers here!!

People knocking stuff from the rails onto the floor at work and expecting me to pick it up after them (25 weeks, v. visible bump and finding it very hard to bedn over) :angry:

*bend and

Boots put their Pregnacare on the very bottom shelf at floor level! Like I have any chance of getting down there, I couldn't put my own socks on this morning.

I'm with toomuchtimeonline - I'm 20 weeks and have had all manner of people commenting on my bump. But what annoys me most are friends who have been pregnant already saying 'wow look at you', you look huge compared to the last time I saw you. Like, thanks alot. You'd think they'd be more considerate considering they've been through it already!

I know NewMummy - not sure how being pregnant suddenly lifts the lid on being able to comment on peoples bodies.. drives me mad!

on a happier note I heard someone being trained in Waterstones: "we keep all the mother and baby books at this level so that our pregnant customers can reach them without bending down too much or having to stretch too high"

i was SO IMPRESSED!!

My personal pet hate post-baby is why oh why do they always put the baby stuff on the first floor (i'm looking at you boots, clarks and primark in particular) - just means queues of pushchairs at the lifts as you can't just nip up and down the stairs or escalators

Gap Maternity - I love their jeans and trousers - they are the only ones that seem to fit me properly, but why do they feel the need to put them on a low table, forcing meto adopt a bizarre squatting pose to find my size?

When an assistant came over, I was overjoyed, thinking he'd help me find my size, but instead he asked me tomove out of the way so that he could restock! Grrrr.

If I could find trousers that fit me anywhere else I would have walked out in a huff.

sainsburys - the dozen or so checkout staff who just pretended not to notice i was hugely pregnant and struggling to pack my shopping. they NEVER offered to help me. i may shop exclusively at tesco throughout my next pregnancy

Mothercare should take a leaf out of Waterstones' book! I was looking for sleepsuits in my local one the other day and they had them literally about 7 feet high. I could just about reach if I stretched but there was no way you could fish through them to see the sizes. So thoughtless.

Also, somebody (MIL but that's not important right now) serving shed loads of cheese I can't eat with a token block of cheddar thrown in. I'm not saying everyone else should be denied but why is it always only cheddar? Grr, I adore cheese, sorry. Pleased I'm not going to be PG over Christmas this time as that is the worst time for cheese denial.

I had really bad SPD with my last pregnancy (crutches etc) and the midwives were on the first floor of the building, without a lift. IU asked them to come down to see me for my appointment. They told me to come upstairs as the excercise would do me good . That was 7 years ago - everybody seems much better informed about SPD now!

Checkout guy in Asda asking if I wanted help packing my stuff, few weeks before due date. When I said yes that would be great he asked really - I was so embarrassed and said I was only joking. Why ask if they don't want to help! X

The kids at school: "Weh-hey!! Miss has been shagging"

My DH used the slow cooker in the middle of my morning sickness. Several times, even though I told him after the first one! Nothing worse than the stench of meat cooking all damned day, blech.

On a happier note, I have very bad SPD and predictably Bluewater was out of wheelchairs by the time we got there the other day so I had to hobble round with my stick and sit down wherever I could. One time I sat down in Lakeland near the baskets and when it was time to get up again, I managed to knock the baskets flying as I didn't realise they had wheels on. A little old lady who was another customer picked them up for me before I could say anything

Actually, I have found just about everyone really lovely about my pregnancy, sorry!

Granted I'm 25 weeks so not at the final stages when I am a butterball may change my mind...

An assistant at Topshop opened a till just for me so I could buy some maternity leggings - there was just one till with 20 people queueing and I must have looked very sad (and tired). That was nice.

And my DP has been very forgiving when I have to bashfully admit that I've eaten all the chocolate in the house, and even pops out to the shops to get me some more in case I need it later.

My BIL saying he wasn't going to congratulate us until after the twelve week scan in case something went wrong, because he would be too cut up about it.

Best friend telling other friends behind my back that I was being ridiculous for vomitting at the smell of cigarette smoke. I had morning sickness and couldn't help what triggered it!

My husband for making me toast and marmite or whatever other snack I fancied during the morning sickness period whcich really helped. Oh, hang on that's a nice thing isn't it? I'm sure I am annoyed with him about something!

So many things annoy me at the moment but I think that's just pregnancy rage.

'Wow, is there only one in there?!' comments since I was 20 weeks.

The many, many tube commuters who try and push past my now 33 weeks and rather large bump.

The commuters with large rucksacks and briefcases who smack me in the bump continually.

Gruesome birth stories along the lines of 'A friend of a friend of a friend....'

All the clothes shops that stock a range of trousers for short people and a maternity range but can't combine the two. Do they think short women don't get pregnant? Next, I'm thinking of you in particular here.
My in-laws who gave me non-maternity clothes and wine for Christmas.
My mother-in-law who gave us a cheese selection pack just before Christmas with some delicious looking brie in it, and my DH who ate all the brie after I had suggested that I could still eat it if we cooked it.
Everyone who sits in the staff room discussing their or their friends' horrific birth stories