Comments that annoy you

[elliejjtiny]

Currently 18+3 with DC5 and got the pregnancy rage. Just thought it might be therapeutic to share some of those annoying comments. Here are mine:

There's no way you're going to go full term (really hate this, feel like they're wishing a premature baby on me)

It would be so lovely if you have a girl this time (I don't really care)

It's definitely twins (with ds4, after 9 scans showed 1 baby)

Anything that implies my wife is merely a baby-carrying vessel with no needs or desires of her own. For example, she complains about not being able to drink and gets something along the lines of 'well if you can't cope with thinking about something other than yourself for nine months then maybe you're not fit to be a mother'. Or 'your child will be everything from now on'.

She's already had a mini-explosion at the suggestion a birthday present will be maternity-related and I don't blame her!

And, from a man's point of view, I'm already heartily sick of being told I'll be grateful to escape back to work after paternity leave. Really? Do you know me at all?

Oh that reminds me, every few weeks I'll have a quarter glass of red wine... And that stupid bloody picture of a pregnant woman drinking with the 'forbidden' line through it makes me angry every time... Makes me wanna drink the whole bottle... How dare they!

It really bugs be when at 13 weeks, people are already saying things like, "Enjoy your sleep while you can" and telling me "Oh, you shouldn't be eating that! Baby weight isn't easy to loose."

I'm sorry, but I'm not starving myself because I'm afraid it will be hard to loose the weight.
Keep it to yourselves people!

Worst so far has probably been "Did you trick partner's name?" WTF???? NO!!!!

"Ofcourse your life is over...I'd cry if it were me" I get at 21 I'm regarded as quite young but COME ON.

"What do you want?" A healthy baby.

"Was it planned?" Shut up. Either way it's happening and we're bloody chuffed to pieces.

"SOMEONE'S been naughty, eh? EH?" Sex is a pretty standard practice amongst many unmarried couples these days...

At the beginning also had the whole "a lot of pregnancies end in miscarriage so just...don't get too excited".

I also get agitated when people like to think they know more than my midwife. Maybe I can eat such and such, but if a medical professional suggests I don't for a measly 9 months, I'd rather do that. Yes, cavewoman etc did carry/stretch a lot, but if there's particular things that I feel are that one step too far/been advised not to, no hope in hell I'm risking it because someone else who has no idea of my own threshold thinks I should.

Rant over. Sorry. I just have a lot of feelings :(

"You'll need to stop with all that exercise you're doing..." Really, why? I'm managing perfectly fine, thankyou, my midwife is aware, and it makes me feel better not worse! And for heaven's sake, I was only 18 weeks at the time - do you think I need to just lie down watching daytime TV for the next 5 months?!

Blondie bear in mind that those who mention miscarriage may have experienced it themselves, don't be too harsh on them. In a reverse to you I find people who announce/post 'my baby at 6 weeks' on Facebook utterly terrifying. For someone who has had a loss there's no 'excitement' in the 1st 12 weeks, it's scary. :(

Squizita- I definately see what you're saying and I appreciate they're just looking out for me, but I did have a lot of the anxieties during the first 12 weeks and so was trying to think positively. The only people who said those kind of comments were those who didn't have any experience and who as soon as we told them they came out with that and would then remind me whenever I saw them :( After I'd spend ages googling statistics and getting a bit worked up :(

Helenhen have noticed a lot of 'how are you feeling' instead of the usual How are you

Lol oh I shouldn't have said anything... It'll probably start to annoy you now! sorry!