Squashed bump - will it be ok?

[Pinkbell123]

Just had a nightmare on the train, had to push through 4 full and standing carriages so I could try my luck with a seat on first class and my bump got really squashed against the back of a seat by some evil lady who wouldn't move an inch to let me past and bashed by loads of people pushing past. It really hurt. No one offered my their seat even though I look very pregnant and was saying "I need to sit down can I get past please". Some poor other lady in her first trimester was trying to get to first class too and she had to run into the loo!

I hate commuting so much. Finally in first class so at least I have a seat.

Will the baby be ok with all the squishing? I think he's moved a bit but I'm scared I've done some damage. They're pretty well protected right?

Aaaaah!!! Sorry for the rant

I keep hoping they're pretty well protected as at the moment every morning I wake up and I'm lying on my tum. So if its still ok with my lying on it I'm sure you'll be ok!!

Pink share your frustration. After commuting overline throughout my pregnancy I have so many similar stories of ignorant selfish people not offering seats as well as pushing and shoving past me.

I often had actual arguments with pople continuing to shout at me/loudly make their case for shoving past me etc etc. Have finally go on maternity now but in my last month I was a very scary pregnant woman, telling people off for shoving into me and loudly (& sarcastically) thanking people opposite/next to me when finally getting a seat (only though someone getting off train) for staring directly at me and my massive bump and not offering me a seat. Their bright red faces and apologies hopefully mean next time they'll offer a pregnant woman a seat.

Don't worry about the bump bumping! It'll be fine. Good luck x

Thanks! Just got home to a letter from the hospital telling me I have a urine infection! Lush. Day could not get worse

Don't worry, their quite protected in there. Makes me so angry when people are like that, im constantly getting shoved and barged past, the only time someone offered me a seat was on the tube in Paris in the middle of summer cos I was swaying and shaking from the heat. People dont have the common decency that they should.

It's weird - have just moved, and now commute overground. I haven't once been offered a seat.
On my DLR/Tube commute, I got one every single journey, with two exceptions to date (am now 33 weeks). Why are train commuters so much ruder & less considerate?
I also had a go at a man who shoved past me, told him if he wanted to get past, the words were 'excuse me'. He totally ignored me.
It makes me tearful, but mainly stabby.

It's so true I commute on a mainline train and the tube and always get a seat on the tube, hardly ever on the train. Train people are rude!

I am contucting a little social experiment on my commute - again all overground!
i'm 27 weeks and now looking pregnant and I was interested to see how many people seeing my bump would give up a seat - the answer was zero.
So I put my baby on board badge on this week as I have genuinely been shattered (I am a physio so on my feet treating patients every 30 mins so very physical). I have not been offered a seat once.
People claim they don't look up but I have seen a number of commuters look up, clock me, then look back down.
Thankfully, apart from normal physical fatigue of manual work and brewing a little one I feel ok. If I had a seat I would def give it up for someone else if needed as I am ok so far.
However, the majority of people commuting into london sit in an office all day at a computer. It would def not hurt them to stand for 15-20 mins for a pregnant lady on her feet all day.
Urghhh it does annoy me. I sometimes think that when i am bigger someone will give up their seat however, I had to give up a leaning post for a very heavily pregnant lady yesterday so I do not hold up much hope.

Oh, the BoB badge! I had a VERY RUDE american girl sat opposite me on the train last night (not commuting home, just coming home from shopping, so of course got a seat...) who said to her boyfriend very loudly 'Honey, if I were pregnant, I wouldn't need a PIN to announce it to the world' as if it were just the funniest thing she'd ever seen.

I told her to try travelling at 8.30am at 33 weeks pregnant and see if she changed her mind.