Sick of people commenting on my body

[Moonchild23]

I’m 16 weeks and already people think it’s appropriate to make comments.
Everyone keeps saying ‘you don’t even look pregnant’, ‘you look the same’ etc and it’s really bothering me. I know they think it’s a compliment but it’s making me a bit paranoid like should my bump be bigger?
I’m tall and normally a size 12 ish so I think there’s a lot of space there. I can definitely tell I’ve got a bump and my friends can, it’s just I’m not wearing tight tops.
I just don’t get why people comment on your body just because you’re pregnant when they would never normally do it? Anyone else had this?
My pregnant friends said it gets worse with people wanting to touch you?! I will tell people to F off no shame

People seem to think that pregnant women are fair game for comments, touching, criticism. They seem to have no boundaries.

It's up to you how you react to them but you are well within your rights to tell people that their comments are inappropriate and are making you feel uncomfortable.
I love when people touch my stomach as I just tell them I'm not pregnant and they look horrified! Hopefully they'll think twice before touching someone else! Once the baby is here, I'll miss winding people up lol

When people touch your stomach, you can always touch theirs. If it’s an acceptable thing to do, it’s an acceptable thing to do! I think you might get extra points for maintaining eye contact while you do it.

I think I probably won’t do this, unless someone catches me on a particularly bad day, but we shall see...

Try your best to smile sweetly and ignore the morons! With my first everyone told me how huge i was until about 30weeks when miraculously I was ‘tiny for 30 weeks’, drove me nuts. Had the same this time but I’m ignoring everyone! Not sure why people can just go with ‘look how gorgeous you/your bump are’ etc! 🙄

Haha I’m at that point too ‘oh you look so big’ er yeah there’s a growing human in me wtf shut up and keep walking 😂

I'm 31 weeks and in the past two days I've been told I look both huge and tiny! I surely can't be both!

Someone I worked said I looked ginormous at 30 wks. I was wearing a size 12 non maternity coat. She was stood there in her size 18 clothes!

At around 16 weeks I had one friend say my bump was really big for 16 weeks and another friend say I had no bump (like nah your belly always looks like that, i.e. you just look fat) within a couple of days of each other. A stand in for my pregnancy yoga instructor asked me last week if I was sure it wasn’t twins. And at dinner with my partner’s family at the weekend his SIL loudly said after the meal I think your bump has gotten bigger after all that food. 🙄

I hate this too! I'm 27 weeks and everyone's always like omg ure so tiny I was that sixe when I was 15 weeks it really gets me down as I had both my previous kids at 31 weeks and have never had a big bump! I am small in general and 4ft11 so would be shocked if I had a massive bump but I would never comment on the size of someone else so rude! just Ignore it xx

I got told to give away all my size 10 clothes because I'll never fit into them again!
Currently 16weeks and still the same size as I was pre pregnancy but it doesn't stop people telling me I'll never look the same again.
I'm quite sensitive on that as well cause when I was at boarding school the teachers would make comments about my size and watch me eat (size 10 at 16 years old so I wasn't big) so I am hating that people suddenly have the right to slag off my body.

Sorry you’re all getting the same thing, I don’t know where people get off honestly.
@avacadooo can’t believe someone told you to get rid of your clothes, some people have no sense. Ive had people tell me to look into plastic surgery because my boobs will never be the same 😂
I think I’m gonna start just staring blankly at people when they make comments to make them feel as uncomfortable

I'm 37 weeks today and I still have people telling me I don't look pregnant. I actually find it very annoying and rude? I don't think it's a complement at!!

People are so rude. I threw up multiple times a day until 22 weeks & I still think the body commentary is the worst part of pregnancy! A lot of it is so ignorant too, like my builder (!) saying "That's a good bump size, must be a big baby". WTF. There's no correlation. Same day: "What a neat, small bump – well done." As if I have anything to do with how I carry. Thankfully no one's tried to touch me yet because I will BITE THEM.

I heard if some one touched your bump without consent you can get them done for assault as it's classed as unwanted contact. And I get the opposite saying how big I am grr. Like your bump is big for how far you gone . But the most baby's you have the earlier you show . People are so insensitive

If someone touches my bump I will knock them out, I'm not a huge fan of being touched 😂

Forgot one comment that was said to me but wasn't about my appearance at my booking appointment in January my midwife said I was very young to be having a baby. I'm 24 and married 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

The touching bump thing drives me nuts!! As for the comments I think people are just making conversation, not great but they're just saying something iykwim

"You don't even look pregnant"
"Isn't that funny because you look like you you're at least 8 months gone" (said to anyone who mentions it, whoever they bloody are.)

Get ready with your responses @Moonchild23. I'm afraid it's the only thing that stops people.

“You don’t even look pregnant”

Options:

“Well I am”
“Thanks for the advice. I’ll book an extra scan right away to check im actually pregnant”
“You don’t look like you’d be rude, but yet here we both are”

@chaosmoon @delphimoon I love all those responses 😂
@avacadooo too young to be pregnant? What a weird thing to say! Even if you were actually really young, what are you meant to do with that 🤦🏼‍♀️