Does anyone else find all the attention totally cringey?

[Choccyhobnob]

This probably makes me sound really ungrateful but since I found out I was pregnant 9 weeks ago (and DH told his parents literally the day I took the test ) I have just found myself totally embarrassed and cringing at how some people (mainly his family) are.

MIL cried which I found mortifying (think because me and my family aren't like that!!) and then we had an early scan at 8 weeks and we met his dad in the pub to show him the little picture and tell him it was ok and he then wanted to show all his mates and bought the whole pub a drink. I was just dying of embarrassment. It just feels like such a personal thing I didn't want the whole pub seeing my little bean.

Then I had to tell a couple of people at work when I was 7 weeks due to the kind of job I do and since then one woman has said I have a bump almost every day (I've only just got one now at 15 weeks) and got me a 'mum to be' card on mothers day. Again, I know it's really sweet but it just made me feel so uncomfortable!!

God reading this back I sound like such a cow, but does anyone else feel embarrassed and bit protective like this is a private thing and don't want people commenting? Especially in the early days. I think I just can't cope with people making a fuss like I'm the first woman on earth to ever have a baby...

NoPower that's hilarious, I feel grateful for my caring and non overly demonstrative family Urgh would HATE it if anyone called me mummy!! And thechinaclogs I can't believe the c section comment my mind is boggling..

I had someone tell me that she had a c section so her vagina wouldn't be ruined, I told her I was planning on a natural waterbirth because my other half isn't the sort of dickhead who would care about that. Not heard any more from her.

Yep, this is why I stayed quiet all long as I could with both of mine. I'm slightly introverted and found all this a bit of a nightmare.

I'm 35 weeks pregnant with twins and I am so so tired of being some kind of spectacle!!! Every one has a comment. Someone will tell me
I'm massive and I will walk around the corner and someone will comment on how small my bump is. People constantly bugging me - vaginal/c section, drugs... I do generally like talking about pregnancy and babies, but it's just got a bit too much this time!

Well these stories are great, but if you want it to end just have a few more, I'm currently gestating number 3 and nobody gives a shit by this point, and it suits me just fine.

Yes to all of the above! I'm only 7 weeks with first child and both my dad and DPs dad were excited but restrained in a sweet way I was comfortable with (also got a "well done" haha, thanks) but our mums have gone insane! DPs mum also keeps touching my stomach every time she sees me - I'm 7 weeks, it's tiny, that's just rolls of fat your touching! And wouldn't let me carry any bags out of the supermarket last week. She also told me I looked tired and asked if I wanted a nap? Like really? I'm not 4?

wouldn't let me carry any bags out of the supermarket

oh yeah, the things you shouldn't be doing . . . I was gardening the other day and my neighbour came over to say 'Should you be doing that?!'

No, no - you're right, weeding will give the baby weeditis and make it fall out of my bottom into this wheelbarrow.

This is my third pregnancy Rhiannon and it's a million times worse than either of the others!

OMG I just collected some boxes from reception (on a trolley, so I lifted them about 6 inches into the air and they weigh about 2kg - I was deadlifting about 40kg before I got pregnant!) and 3 women in my office rushed over to berate me for doing it - mortifying, I feel like a total invalid

So nobody on this thread planning to get friends and family together for a little party to reveal the sex of the precious bubba then? Complete with one of those cakes that you have to cut and then see whether it's pink or blue inside?! (boak)

A relative of mine actually did that. A distant relative.

Lol good God no!

Yes. I can confirm that it does actually happen and is not just an MN myth.

She got the sonographer to put the gender on a bit of paper in an envelope, then gave it to her nan and asked her to bake a cake with the relevant colour fondant in the middle. Which she then cut at the party.

Bubz was blu.

I'm 9 weeks now and we plan to keep it quiet until after 12 week scan. We're both dreading telling the mothers, we had a long conversation not long after we knew I was pregnant, basically going into detail about exactly how each mother would react, little dances, crying, etc. DH especially is dreading it, as he is really reserved and hates shows of emotion like that. To be fair though, we only have ourselves to blame, neither mum is a gran yet, and we have been together 10 years so they've been waiting a long time!

2 of my friends now (childless) have said "so your not going to have one of those.... Water births of anything are you"?? I'm like well, yes, the MLu has pools in every room and it seems like everyone gives them a go. They seem to think it's some mad hippy concept on a par with free birthing

Oh I'd make the most of it OP, sometimes when the baby arrives you can feel discarded like an empty gourd.

You might miss the attention then when it's all about the baby...... and no one gives two figs how you are but only in terms of how your tits are bearing up to feed the baby.

Make hay!

Hi wait till you have your 3rd baby....no one would really care. enjoy the attention!!

I know this thread is a few months old but I'm glad it's been bumped. It's so reassuring to know I'm not the only pregnant woman who feels like this.