Most annoying things people say to you when you are pregnant?

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I'm 16+3 and still have chronic nausea and sickness.

If one more person says to me, "Oh, I thought it stopped after 12 weeks" or "You'll be fine by X weeks" I don't think I can be held responsible for the hormonal rage that will ensue.

Jollyjingle nope the single 23 year old men who felt they could tell me what to eat and how to avoid miscarriage had NOT been pregnant. Pretty sure. And I "raised" the subject by eating my food in the work canteen.

"Reading this has at least convinced me to ignore pg women"

Please start now Jolly goodbye

Jolly regarding reading in 2 months.

I. AM. NOT. PREGNANT. ANY MORE. Several of us are already mums if you read the thread properly.

And I agree with most people on this thread. As do the other mums.

Discussion of the day is top right on the page and is the highlighted thread of the day so tends to attract any tom dick or Harriet! It means your annoyances are probably very common.

I'm off anyway and I would wish you all well with your pregnancies only that would be 'annoying' I wish you well anyway as you are quite right to find the whole pregnancy thing difficult and annoying

Would love that million $ though!

i dont mind the comments about my bump being huge.... it is. i started showing at 6 weeks and at 27 weeks it looks huge. but what i dont like is people feeling its acceptable to touch my bump. and i have an anterior placenta and oh hasnt felt him kick yet think i might invest in some hands off the bump maternity tops for when i see certain overbearing people.... very annoying. same goes for after baby is born and they feel they can put their hands in my pram...... F*CK OFF!!!!! i was in town with my sister once and her son has blonde hair and blue eyes and a woman in a shop rubbed his face and commented on his beautiful blue eyes and then she looke in my pram at dd and noticed her same beautiful blue eyes....... i practically growled at her so she didnt put her hands anywhere near my pram

My mum accused me of "waddling" last week (at 23+5).
I was suffering from agonising sciatic pain, so I think I was more limping than waddling, but still. I reacted in shock, saying "how can you say that?" and then apologised for overreacting, but she said she didn't realise it might be annoying to be accused of waddling and that she said that to all of her pregnant colleagues!

I quite like people touching my bump. Telling me how huge I am, on the other hand, I don't like.

ok, you want us to find the nice side of it all?

well tell me how I was supposed to take this one (from my mother) in a nice way... rang to tell her I was pregnant (with the eldest).

"oh. OH. well, just because you're pregnant it doesn't mean you're going to have a baby, you know. Look at me, I was pregnant 4 times but only had your brother in the end. ...... oh, and you, of course"

It's decades since my pregnancies but I had a classic comment on my second pregnancy.

For some reason I was never sick with either pregnancy or even faintly nauseous. A woman asking how I coped with morning sickness. I said luckily I hadn't had any or with my first. Her response? "Poor you, you'd better take it easy as you will probably lose the baby. It's bad not to be sick." This was said while she stared at my 3 year old who obviously escaped the dire consequences of my cast iron stomach…..

Most annoying things people say when pregnant?

Ooh I don't know, but phrases like "But please lighten up. Some people are irritating. Some are boring. Some are rude" might rank quite highly up there when you are seriously uncomfortable, sleep deprived and queasy.

Or maybe it's just me. And no, I don't go on about it; people just seem to randomly appear out of nowhere & make it their business...in the supermarket, at the GP, and even online!

Most exhausting.

Ah yes. The "have you tried eating a ginger biscuit as soon as you wake up?" or "flat ginger beer will help with the sickness" comments.

I threw ginger beer and ginger biscuits up enough times before I ended up on anti-sickness tablets, that the thought of anything ginger flavoured makes me shudder. Bleurgh.

grimbletart I wonder where the woman got that idea from? I never got morning sickness either, and have two DCs. Instead I got the heartburn from hell, lasting pretty much the entire pregnancies.

From this notion FryOne I expect, though there was no internet when I was pregnant.

Extract:"Feeling sick is a sign that pregnancy hormones are high enough to sustain a pregnancy. Women who experience morning sickness are less likely to have a miscarriage than those who don't. But that's not to say that if you don't feel sick you won't have a perfectly healthy pregnancy."

www.babycentre.co.uk/a549842/morning-sickness-nausea-and-vomiting-in-pregnancy

Taxi driver today as I got in the car: "You want a plastic bag to sit on?"

I'm a biiiig 36 weeks, and am limping a bit so look quite ropey when on the move. Plus he was taking me to hospital, so easy to assume that I was in labour. But come on, you'd make your first question "are you OK love?" wouldn't you?

LadyF - I wonder if he saw you limping and wondered if you had SPD? I've been advised to sit on a plastic bag to help me swing my legs round when in the car. It helps them stay together which hurts less.

But yes, "are you ok, love" would've been better!

ladyF I think your best response would have been: "Plastic bag? You're going to need an 8ft tarpaulin if this thing blows!" .

I've had 5 separate people contact me in the last 24 hours asking "has the baby arrived yet?"

Firstly, I'm not actually at my due date yet and secondly how likely is it I wouldn't be telling anyone if it HAD arrived?!

ah blue that question is about as irritating as thrush. i used to get wound up every time the phone rang or i got a txt or anything. i got oh to screen my calls when i was due with dd as i was very hormonal and likely to explode (i went 2 weeks over was then induced and after 26 hours of labour had a emergency c section) wouldnt have wanted to upset anyone but its amazing how many people ask and how often especially with the first baby. second time round they backed off a bit

Yup - my DGM is calling for updates every 48 hours. I've still got a month to go!

I've been posting this everywhere:

www.haveyouhadthatbabyyet.com

I have every intention of using that when March comes around. I have no patience for the constant questions! We also have no intention of informing anyone when I go into labour. Our close families have been told this and understand our reasons, so they know that they first they hear of it will be a call to say that baby has arrived. Other people will be directed to that website!

Most things people say dont bother me except for when we announced our news lots of people asked if we were trying ! I am like what the hell has that to do with you !!

stubbornstains! I wish I'd thought of something like that. Or could have spontaneously flooded his footwell on the way out and then legged it.

He MIGHT have be that well-meaning HenriettaTurkey, but I'm going to err on the side of irrationally grumpy and hormonal and pigeon-hole him as a twat. Hope your SPD is treating you gently.

grimbletart thanks for that info. It makes a little more sense now.

All I get from friends, colleagues and family is "You're fatter than me now" (Er, no, its all baby and I'm lighter than before I got PG thanks!), "your life is over," (again no, just because you don't like making compromises when it comes to your social life!) and "you won't make maternity leave..."

Mind you, some are genuinely excited and happy for me and OH.

One of my work colleagues who was eary wigging said to me this morning "now you know how it feels"

How does that help in any way?!! Firstly I wasn't saying too much, answering a direct question, and was in fact talking to another colleague who is also pregnant

Secondly like to see her cope with some of my MS (multiple sclerosis) symptoms when I'm experiencing numbness and pins n needles at the same time whilst being sore and feart I'll hurt/burn myself.

I'm being an overtired irrational fool. But needed to vent.

Happy new year