Rrrrrrahhhh!! Kindly keep your opinions on my body shape/size to yourself! i am not public property!

[Moominsummermadness]

I am 29+4, and have and a half weeks left at work, but already want to go in to hiding. Over the last week alone, I've had at least 4 people at work tell me how 'massive/huge' I am (one woman shouted it across the office ), and two other people tell me that I am 'tiny'. I actually said to one woman today, "well, I was measured at 28 weeks, and my bump was 28cm, so that makes me pretty much spot on. I am, afterall, nearly 7 months pregnant, so I am going to look considerably pregnant!". After opening and closing her mouth a few times like a fish, she then (knowing that I have 3 dds) said, "I bet you want a boy, don't you". Grrrr. Yes, I may be touchy and hormonal and more than slightly sensitive about my 2 stone weight gain, but they can all sod off, lol! I'm not a bloody freak show!! Rant over.

my husband does it to all the pregnant ladies he comes across at the moment.
It was embarrassing today as we were looking round a house and the lady that owned it was a few weeks ahead of me but my (tactless) husband had to point out how much bigger her bump was than mine.
I'm 25 weeks and measuring bang on but he's convinced the bump is dangerously small and I had to explain to the really nice lady how it wasn't her being massive that he was commenting on but the fact he's convinced our baby is too squished up.
And then gave him the riot act in the car about how ladies on their second baby often show sooner and bigger, some bumps stick out more, and it isn't nice to imply someone's huge. Particularly when they own a huge a little out of price bracket that we really really want.

ooops I meant house

I don't mind the bump-related comments (so much). I do mind the 'Ooh, was it planned?' (Yes dear, I'm so gonna discuss my use of contraception with you!) or even better, 'Well, you're a bit old aren't you - did you think you couldn't have any?'
No clever comebacks, I'm afraid, I was too speechless!

Oh god, the sheer banality of the stupid comments you get ... and the bump-prodding and personal questions from people you barely know! The sheer bloody rudeness is astonishing, even if it is unintentional.

I've had a few people ask when it was that I found out I was pregnant. We already have one child and DP and I have been together 4.5 years so surely most people would make the (correct) assumption it was planned and I'd therefore have found out at around 4-5 weeks pregnant. It just seems like an odd question to me, but clearly one others think is totally normal as so many people have asked the same thing.

I think you can tell the people who are genuinely nice and just interested, but then they generally phrase things in a more pleasant manner, and then there are the bitchy ones.... I was told by such a person last week, at 36 weeks, that I looked 'really huge' and I just smiled sweetly and said 'well I am not abnormall big, but carrying at the front and being petite it shows more, at 36 weeks pregnant, I measure 34cms, but at least I haven't put much weight on elsewhere'. Phew and deep breath! Said friend is 7 years younger at 30 YO and is thinking of TTC in next 2 years. Hope she gets massively fat. I think men are nicer, most of them seem to like pregnant women.

Excuse typos, blimmin i-pad!

Yeah someone asked me if it was planned too - a woman I don't know very well - why do people think this kind of question is acceptable??

I think I must be really lucky as 34 wks now and not experienced any of this. At work I find people staring at my bump as I walk around but in a smily way mainly and they just want to ask questions. Nearest comment I've had about size was "you're getting a nice bump now" which was cute and I can live with. Otherwise people/boss just ask how I'm feeling and if i've got all the stuff ready, how long to go etc.

Don't mean to sound smug - can't imagine how hard it would be working with people who make inappropriate comments and make you feel bad. I just don't know why people do that - no self awareness or consideration. Probably just jealous!! :)

Happy bumps ladies - for all shapes and sizes :)

If anyone touches my bump without my permission I say 'why are your hands on my uterus?' or say 'which body part of yours can I rub?'. Always gets a good reaction!

I have the opposite problem, people telling me how small my bump is. Measuring exactly right for gestation so I know it's the right size at the moment & its not my first child so I'm pretty relaxed about it, otherwise I'd probably be a bit neurotic about it.

I had a pregnant lady in work tell me if she didn't know me, she wouldn't think I was pregnant, this is the second time in a week she's said something like this! I'm 28 weeks and have a lovely basketball sized bump. She's 2 months ahead & quite frankly is fecking massive all over but I would never say that to her.

She is so smug about her massiveness, she is competitive about bump size - ridiculous! Such an odd reaction from someone in a similar predicament. I don't understand the NEED to comment with no thought for people's feelings, for all she knows I could have problems etc. People are strange...