If one more person.... RANT ALERT!!!!!

[dejags]

During my daily trip from my desk to the canteen at lunchtime - no less than 7 people felt the need to comment on my increasing size.

Comments varying from "look at you - aren't you getting big" to otherwise bizarre copying of my pregnant form (puffing out cheeks and sticking their belly out) were what I had to endure in this brief but necessary lunchtime food trip.

I am absolutely LIVID!!!!!! I nearly told the last joker to F**K OFF in a loud voice.

What is it with people that they think it's okay to comment on a pregnant woman's size. Would anybody dare to comment if a non-pregnant person put on a couple of pounds.....

RANT OVER....

At least I'm pregnant you'll always be fat, ugly, stupid usually works or sorry are my flys undone its just that I can't see down there - usually embarrsses them enough or print out a picture of a pregnant woman and some notes to go with it and tell them that they are obviously fascinated and you are glad they are, you feel honoured that they take such an interest but you don't like being stared at so maybe this picture and factsheet will expalin things!!

I can remember ranting about the same thing last year dejags...not nice and definitely sympathise. I also hate the touchy feely group who think it totally ok to start rubbing your tummy as well. At my work leaving lunch time "do" (bunch of teachers) one colleague and fairly good female friend started up the conversation about how big I had got, seemlingly oblivious to my irritated expression actually ahd the nerve to comment about the fact that she was amazed at how big my boobs had got so I was "still in proportion" - in front of the head, male colleagues, everyone and when they were all listening to her, not as a side comment just to me. I was so embarrassed and angry I just didn?t know where to look. Have never spoken to her since.
The next person who comments on your size, comment on theirs in return - tlel them that you thought they had been putting on a few pounds recently as well...should shut them up (alternately, I am sure your F*CK Off! comment works just as well )

But surely you realised that pregnant women are public property (for touching, commenting on) and that any normal boundaries for good manners are wiped out? Under what other circumstances would colleagues/aquaintances feel able to enquire about your vagina (ooooheeeeuuuurgh did you have an episiostomy? aaaaah hysterical cringing by 12 people round a pub table) or your breasts, uterus, sleeping habits....

You grumpy pregnant women should just face up to your public responsibilities and smile - it might never happen -guffaw guffaw guffaw.

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The poor IT lad who was sitting on my desk this afternoon knows never to comment - he was soooo embarrassed after he sniggered at someone else telling me my boobs were gettig huge - I offered to get them put and let them all have look/feel - told them that not only were they getting huge but were rock hard and hot and itchy oo - soon shut them up ha ha - would have died of they so go on them though1

Secure - put a bean or something under your shirt so it looks as though it has popped out - ha ha ha!!

I think fuck off is a perfectly reasonable response. So is "I find the way you are talking is extremely rude and offensive. I wouldn't dream about commenting about your body." Or, if you feel crosser, "I wouldn't dream about commenting on your beergut/roots that need doing/wart on your cheek/big arse/crows feet". I found any rudeness like this intolerable and I must have given off very pregnant and angry vibes - hardly anyone said anything and if they did I was happy to comment back.

Also developed a very frosty line in body language and didn't get any tummy rubbing either - I would have literally moved away had anyone tried it. Ugh!

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My uncle patted my bump at the weekend and said he thought it was really small and was I sure there was anything in there. I patted his fat gut and said "You're really fat. Are you having quadruplets?"

Lol Piglit, brilliant!

I got really cross about tummy rubbers who don't ask permission ... but then somehow found myself rubbing my p/g sister's tummy last time she came to stay. Oops. She did say she didn't mind...
Is there some sort of forcefield around you when you are p/g that makes people do daft things? Wish it also magically cleared the seats on public transport

I've had men say to me:
"You'll be really big in the last 2 months of course" and "I reckon you will start to show at 18 weeks"

To which my responses were "no sh*t sherlock" and "and do you think it will get dark tonight too?" respectively.

But not respectfully.

lol being pregant is great full stop and a blessing tc all

Well, I was really quite proud of my bump .. and didn't mind anyone touching it ...

Very much to my surprise, I hated mine. I felt incredibly embarrassed about being so fat. Yeah, right, I know I was pregnant not fat but quite frankly, huge tummy=fat in my brain. And as far as I'm concerned, a 'womanly' woman may well have a gorgeous round belly but she also goes IN a bit rather than going out and out and out like a weeble.

Doesn't apply to other pregnant women, by the way. Just me.

I had four comments on the size of my expanding breasts over the last two days (wonder why no-one ever makes a move to grab them as they do my belly!) My sister developed this infuriating thing of 'tickling the baby' (My Belly) which I asked her not to do, again and again. She did it last the other day, I bellowed at the top of my voice "If you don't stop invading my privacy I'm going to batter you! Now, F OFF!!" Cue absolute silence (Urgh, christ knows where that came from! We haven't resorted to fists since childhood!) I don't mind her touching (with permission ) but 'tickling'?! FFS.
Sorry dejags for waffling on, but the "F O**" really did work .

One of the mums at school is expecting her 4th baby and she was telling me the other day how sick fed up she is of people saying to her

"oh aren't you getting big, how long do you still have to go, etc?"

I told her I have the opposite problem people keep saying to me

"oh you're due when?, wow didn't think you were that far along aren't you neat" yeah yeah next subject please. I'm beginning to feel guilty that I don't have a big bump.

Lol at all of this.

My annoying cousin asked if she could touch the bump and I said "No" which she really wasn't expecting. And then, just to really rub it in, the next day, in front of her, I invited my brother to have a good old touch!

So what is the right thing? Ignore it completely? That might be quite annoying too. When I see my v pg friend, I find myself saying "wow, you look gorgeous." Because she does. But I don't know if that's the right thing either.

Oh I sympathise dejags, everyone's got to say SOMETHING haven't they and it's usually 'you're big' or I also had 'you look very tired,' er, thanks, that made me feel a lot better. The answer to all of these is a death stare and f* off I think. Ooh it's annoying, I know.

GOD yes isn't it annoying??!

In the past, when people start discussing my pregnant form I'd offer to show them the scar in my perenium where I tore badly and needed stitches.... it's very funny when people who haven't had a baby say "Go on then, where's your perenium?"

Needless to say, after that they don't want a look....

Another good one I've tried when a bloke at work commented on how big I'd got:

Bloke: We're going to have to widen the doors for you soon.

ME: Maybe, but it's not my size that's bothering me, it's this god-awful vaginal discharge. I'm wondering if it could be something to do with my piles?