I thought I'd heard it all...

[MiniMummy576]

...during my first pregnancy but second time round it seems there are other wonderfully insulting things that people can say that hadn't occurred to me. Just over the last week I've had:

1. (from my mother-in-law on being told the baby was moving around much more than DS did at the first scan) "Oh, well that's because its all so stretched out and the baby has so much more room" how about you don't comment on the apparently humungous size of my uterus, thank you very much.

2)(from an ex-nurse at work) "Oh, so you've finally decided to tell people have you? Well of course I've known for ages. I can tell you what you're having too. Turn around" (points out my hips and bum to another colleague) "see that? Hmm, yes I thought so too. I knew that So-and-so was having a boy because her hips got really wide. I know what you're having."
Erm, did you just imply I have fat hips and arse? Eff off.

Has anyone else got any stonkers? I'm only 11 weeks so I've got many (many) more comments to come, I'm sure!

Just wait till after the birth:

"OMG Step, you're not still pregnant!!!"

What do you think I'm pushing in the buggy - a bag of potatoes?

And then from someone I hadn't seen in a couple of years:

"Congratulations, Step! I heard the news - when's the baby due?"

Six months ago. Look in the f@@@ing buggy!

I have a son and this time I’ve hated all the ‘oh, you’ll be hoping for a girl then’/‘fingers crossed for a girl this time’ comments! I love being Mum to my boy and these comments always seem to devalue him ☹️

I have to admit when I saw my pregnant colleague after some time off I blurted out (affectionately) "ohmygosh you're huge!" followed quickly by "you're so beautiful!". I had no excuse though, I was on maternity leave and only weeks after giving birth to my first baby so I'd endured plenty of rude remarks myself!

What I did love in late pregnancy though was pointing and staring from small kids "Look mummy, she has a baby in her belly!" "Yes, isn't it beautiful!"

I have so, so many from my MIL ranging from “oh, it’s a girl - you’ll be disappointed then, eh, son” (her first grandchild) but now I’m pregnant again (there’ll only be 16 months between babies) I’m getting a lot of “ooh, was it planned?” My response every single time is “are you actually asking if I intended to have sex?!”

‘Are you sure baby is growing properly’
‘You only look a few weeks gone’
‘Are the dates correct, have you made sure’
‘You don’t look like you’re eating enough’
‘It’s gonna come out all skin and bone’
‘You’ll have to feed hourly, baby is being starved in there’

All from family members which for some reason I now have zero contact with just bare in mind I was a size 6 and barely over 5ft, but measurements were perfect every single check up which nobody fucking believed

“I Didnt know your boobs went saggy when you're pregnant i thought that it happened after you’d had your baby and you had breastfed them or something”

Another one i got was “you look like you've just had a big roast dinner, you dont even look pregnant. Do you starve yourself?” Yes me and my unborn child starve. Of course.

I am 18 weeks pregnant with my second child, another boy.
The first thing my mil said when we told her was "oh but I really wanted a girl, huge sigh"

We have also been asked countless times if we are disappointed, and told never mind.

We were genuinely thrilled with finding out we have another healthy son!

Just some low-grade rudeness - "You realise you'll be 63 when your child is 21?"

When pregnant with my second dd, on announcing to my own mother that she was a girl, her instant response was "oh that's a shame." Followed by "I guess you don't get to choose" she finished off by being surprised when I said I was really happy to have another girl!
I didn't speak to her for 2 months afterwards.

@MarklahMarklah that’s rude. Don’t worry my DPs parents were 45 when they had him ... they’ve set him up really well financially because of the added years they worked and managed to fund him through uni so he’s debtless. They’re about to retire now he’s 22 and it means they have much more time to spend with him when he’s free ( and to make me Sunday lunches mwahaha)

• I am not saying being younger is not as good people I am just statin some of the benefits of being an older Mum

The old ones are the best : have you tried ginger?

Ahem.

'Don't worry, you can lose the weight afterwards'

You saying I'm fat?

You look just like my buddy I play golf with I. E a 60 year old fat guy.

Great, thanks for that nugget of information.

I hate "was it planned" especially by people you don't even know. Actually. It doesn't matter who from, it's rude!
From a co worker "I was thinking! You can have an abortion you know!" Yes thank you I know I CAN. Don't think I will though. "What do your parents think of this??" Being an adult and living with my partner at the time I don't see why my parents would have a massive opinion. "Do you know that waters break to lubricate the way out for the baby" don't think they do.
"You'll be burping and farting like a trooper now!" Why's that? "Coz you're pregnant, that's what pregnant women do".
"When will you like, not be able to do anything" urm never? "No, like you get to the stage where you can't do anything" in this last persons defence, we do work with a girl that's a few weeks further along than me and has no word of a lie, not lifted a finger since the moment she conceived. The other day she asked an 80 year old woman to move a 4 Pinter bottle of milk for her because "she's pregnant"

Sorry I just can't leave this thread. It's my new diary.
"How many are in there?"
"Are you still with the dad?"
"Ahhh I'm sure it's all just water and that's why you're SO big"

I've had quite a few people of varying levels of closeness as "was it planned?"

(babies no 3,4 & 5) 'haven't you got a telly'

4evanamechanging I worked with one a girl like that last time. I was a high risk pregnancy and only 4 weeks behind her but me and two others ended up lifting a bunch of equipment out of her car for her while she stood and watched... because she was pregnant.

I got asked by my boss last week if it was planned... what do they expect you to say? No I tripped and fell on it?

Remarks like that are the reason I always tell pregnant women how surprised I am that they are so far along because they look so slender still or that their bump is really neat. Who cares if it's true? A colleague's bump was all at the front and so pretty big although the rest of her had hardly changed. What should I say? "Bloody Hell! You're massive!"? You feel shit enough when heavily pregnant, you don't need wankers adding to it!

crackle are you me? I'm high risk, this girl is having the most plain sailing pregnancy but literally milks it for ALL its worth. Hasn't worn a scrap of makeup since she found out, wears big baggy clothes (when she has no bump) literally won't even brush her hair because she wants people to ask if she's feeling okay, so she can say "I'm pregnant". So embarrassing. (I'm not against anyone not wearing makeup obviously!! But she's always looked presentable and she now looks like she's been dragged from a bush and it's intentional for attention)

4ever I'm not looking forward to her words of wisdom - if I have to hear again how wearing perfume could give my baby undecended testicles I might sign myself off til mat leave starts

She sounds full of wisdom. Is she available to babysit??

Saw this and thought it would be perfect for this thread!

I'd never realised pregnancy was open forum for people to comment about women and their bodies! Luckily I haven't had many strange comments other than lots of people saying how small my bump is for 24 weeks

I had someone throw chicken drumsticks at me from a passing car (I guess because I looked a bit fat at 8 months pregnant).
But that's nothing on the comment I got after miscarriage, "At least it wasn't an actual baby."

Are you sure you’re showing & it’s not just gas?

MIL at 23 Weeks, when I had a pretty obvious bump.