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I think youre having a .........

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jojo76 · 11/10/2006 15:17

girl because youre all out front, a boy because youre carrying high, a girl because youre craving sweet things, a boy because youre wearing pink knickers today....
Baby's sex predictions are DRIVING ME MAD!! Even when I tell people I dont beileve in any of it, they still persist on their knowing glances and predictions!
Is this getting on anyone elses nerves or am i being hormonal?????

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Greensleeves · 11/10/2006 15:19

Wel, both, probably

It is annoying though, isn't it? Try to ignore them, cultivate the blissed-out blank pregnant stare

NatalieJane · 11/10/2006 15:23

Wait untill the baby arrives and then you get all of the 'I told you it was a...' comments from people who think they are really on the ball just because they guessed correctly from only two possible answers....

incy · 11/10/2006 15:24

I hated it - even the checkout lady in my local supermarket had an opinion. Mind you, I have done it to almost everyone since - perhaps it is catching.....

shhhh · 11/10/2006 15:48

EVERYONE said that I was going to have a boy when I had already been told by the sonogrpher that I was having a girl..even an old lady in Tesco "told" me the day before I went into labour that I was having a boy..LOL....the sonographer was right..we had a gorgeous pink one..!

BTW yes it did drive me mad..also along with "everyone" touching my bump..grrrrrr............

emzickle · 11/10/2006 20:08

some old lady in tesco was adament i was having a boy - ive had 5 scans that proved her wrong...

just look at their bellies - announce you think that you'll be lucky with either a. boy b. girl - as you think they are having twins.

snowleopard · 11/10/2006 20:24

It drove me up the wall - especially my blimming sister "i just know it's a girl - trust me, I have a special feeling... I just know" SHAAAAADAAAAP! It was a boy, so well done ms psychic person.

However, know I know about 10 friends who arre pregnant and I have to say I'm obsessed with predicting the sexes - but I don't tell them, I just have my own personal private thoughts and so far I've been 100% right!

So I predict you are having a... it's OK, just kidding.

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jojo76 · 11/10/2006 21:33

the thing that gets me is that this is my second, i already have a ds, am carrying the same as i did with him, and yet apparently im obviously carrying a girl. so silly, SO ANNOYING!!! I was out for dinner the other day and my friends mum made me do this twirl so she could pronounce that it was definitely a girl. WHATEVER!!!!

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snowleopard · 11/10/2006 21:35

Tell then "no, it's a kitten".

luckymummy2Sophie · 11/10/2006 21:40

jojo76 and anyone else....yes this is very annoying!!
I carried 'all out in front' and had a massive bump, my mate hardly showed until 7 months, and was carrying 'all around'.

I had a small girl 6lbs 6oz
she had a big boy 9lbs 12 oz.

That certainly shut a lot of people up!
I work in a hospital and several of my patients 'told' me what I was having. And they were all wrong.

My mum suggested when people ask 'do you know what you are having?' to say...."yes, 18 years of misery" LOL I hope that wasn't a reflection on what I was to her!!!!

luckymummy2Sophie · 11/10/2006 21:40

jojo76 and anyone else....yes this is very annoying!!
I carried 'all out in front' and had a massive bump, my mate hardly showed until 7 months, and was carrying 'all around'.

I had a small girl 6lbs 6oz
she had a big boy 9lbs 12 oz.

That certainly shut a lot of people up!
I work in a hospital and several of my patients 'told' me what I was having. And they were all wrong.

My mum suggested when people ask 'do you know what you are having?' to say...."yes, 18 years of misery" LOL I hope that wasn't a reflection on what I was to her!!!!

luckymummy2Sophie · 11/10/2006 21:41

sorry, I seem to have sent it twice!

MUSA · 12/10/2006 09:55

Well i have a story to tell, my friend who now has had her a baby 2 weeks, was taking her son to school whilst she was pregnant and one of the mothers came up to her.

She asked my friend if she knew what she was having, my friend repled no. so the lady said well i think your having a boy, because you look ugly. Well i wish i was there to so the look on my friends face, she could'nt believe it.

She had a girl, but the nerve of some people.

lemonaid · 12/10/2006 10:02

Apart from anything else, the old wives' tale is that if you're pregnant with a girl she "steals her mother's beauty". So rude, gullible and ignorant. What a combination...

2MwahHaHaHappy · 12/10/2006 10:05

Oh yes, drives me batty. The thing that gets me most is how one person can be so smug and sure of their prediction "yes, I can tell by the way you're carrying, and I've never been wrong you know" and tell you it's a boy, while another person can be equally smug and sure and tell you they know it's a girl. Same as "you're all bump" from one, "gosh your bump is neat" from another; "goodness you're big" then 5 seconds later someone else says "my what a tidy bump". Conclusion? People talk shite.

BlueberryPancake · 12/10/2006 11:23

well, I've got a good one on that... My boss had a bet with the owner of one of the restaurent where we take clients, the restaurent owner said to my boss 'I bet you a bottle of champagne that it's a girl' - BUT what about me!!!! I WANT CHAMPAGNE TOO! anyway, I had a boy so nobody won anything. I was mildly insulted, but hey, I might remind it one day to the owner of the restaurent and get a free drink...

NotQuiteCockney · 12/10/2006 11:32

One of the mums at the co-op is v pregnant. I've asked DS2 what's in her belly, and he's entirely certain of the answer: "Ice cream!".

(Thankfully, she's v thin with a giant belly, so she'd be mad to be offended, she's so clearly pregnant, not fat.)

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jojo76 · 13/10/2006 16:41

"you look ugly!"
well, the woman accross the road actually stopped her car,and GOT OUT to tell me today that Im having a girl, and to remark on how small the bump is.....although a few weeks ago the same woman was marvelling at how gargantuan i was.......tsk.

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taffy101 · 15/10/2006 16:54

According to my sister i'm having a boy cos my arse is a lot bigger than last time when i had a girl spose sisters can get away with that sort of comment...
i think its a boy cos sonographer said it had big feet, but hey i might be surprised yet

moomimin · 15/10/2006 18:39

It is soooooo annoying, everyone thinks they know best. I had a boy first then when I carried my second Exactly the same, shape, size, weight, feelings everyone was convinced it was another boy including me I have to add. hehe I had a girl!

WantAbabyNOW · 16/10/2006 08:53

Fortunately I have not really had too many comments. DH's side of the family are convonced its a girl because they 'just know' and dh thinks a boy.

My mum keeps doing the ring test but keeps changing here mind as to which way means which!

Whoowhoobewhooooooh · 16/10/2006 12:36

It drives me up the flippin' wall. Keep telling myself 'everyone loves pregnant women. They just want to be involved'. Blah blah blah.

I know I should be more tolerant (and I do smile in a distant kind of way), but I was handed a blue babygro by my FIL the other day because he 'just knows'. (I'm 20 weeks btw).

intergalacticwerewolf · 16/10/2006 12:39

I hated all that sort of bloocks when I was pg with both of mine.

However, all that pales into insignificance when the chid is born and everyone thinks that can tell you how to bring them up.

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