Pregnancy rant thread - let those hormones fly!

[sweetkitty]

This is my rant, told everyone about the new pregnancy and as well as the congratulations I've had the following: (3rd DB have 2 DDs already)

1. most asked, was it planned? WTF what a thing to ask, no we have absolutely no clue about contraception almost everyone has asked this I would never ask someone something so personal as to whether they were using contraception or it had failed. Have come back with "yes DP and I had loads of unprotected sex around ovulation"

2. so are you wanting a boy? yes if it's a girl we will be really disappointed not bother naming her and lock her in a cupboard. If I was going to be that upset with a DD I wouldn't have another baby.

3. where are you going to put them all you only have 3 bedrooms? what does everyone else do? A few years ago you would get 6 kids in one room.

4. what if it's twins? we'll sell one on ebay

5. oh you'll have your hands full/are you mad etc etc I mean how are you supposed to answer that.

[angry}

so does anyone else want to join me in a pregnancy rage?

Ooh this is a good thread!!

I can echo a lot of ThomCat's..

1. Do you know what you're having? Yes but I'm not telling anyone. Well it has to be a girl because you look so happy!!! WTF

2. When are you due? September. You're not very big are you.

3. When are you due? Septmeber. Ooh, are you sure there's just one in there!!

4. Hope you don't think this is a rude question but, was it planned? !!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. Is it a girl?

6. Is it a girl?

7. Is it a girl?

8. Is it a girl?

9. Is it a girl?

10. Is it a girl?

FFFFFFFFFFFF***CCCCCCCCKKKKKK OOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!! [head explodes]

I hate it when people say ''when is it due?''

''September''

''Oh, a while to go yet then''

''Thanks, just what I wanted to hear''

Great thread!

At a toddlers swimming class with dd I have had...

1. OMG your huge!!... I thought swimming costumes were slimming!

2. Cant belive your still coming!.... I worked full time up till my last week of my last pregenancy I am sure I can handle 30 min in a pool!

Ahhhh!!!!!

Good thread just wait till your LO's arrive and then you have a whole new bunch of stupid questions to answer.

The "Was it planned" question really ticks me off. What do they expect you to say, "Well, DH and I shared a bottle of wine that night and we both felt a bit amorous. We went to bed thinking that we'd do it there but got really kinky in the end. I ended up dressed in nothing but feathers and tin foil and next thing you know, we were in the shower going at it hammer and tong". Oh I'm sorry - you didn't want personal details? Well don't ask such a personal effing question then!!

LMAO at theressomethingaboutmarie

might use that one next time someone asks

Oh and another thing; SIL telling me that I haven't a clue what it's going to be like....Umm, I'm a first time mum of course I don't have a naffing clue. I'll quite happily assume that they didn't have a clue when they were first time parents either.

ooh ooh can I join this rant, pretty please?

Coz there's the other side of that bloody annoying coin too, when people tell you that once LO is born then you'll understand what they're talking about, even when they're talking absolute shite. I know having a baby is going to change my life and I can't wait, but I am a human being now too, and it really bugs me when people say "once you've got a baby, THEN you'll understand how much it hurts when you stub your toe".... or "once you've got a family THEN you'll understand what it's like to get wet when it rains". WTF?????

Ooh the other one I hate is the having trouble sleeping? Ohh its just the baby preparing you for lots of sleepless nights ahead ha ha!!

Confucius says that once you have a baby you can be smug, ignorant and generally pry into other peoples business!

DH and I have been married nearly 7 years and I'm 13+6 with first. I have had soooo many people asking me if we had to have IVF.

I wouldn't mind but we only started trying in April and hit the jackpot first time round. It's so rude!

Oh, and the one that really pissed me off, when I was green with sickness and throwing up over everyone who walked in my path, the rest of the world's population saw fit to say 'oh well it gets better after the 12th week'

This was about week 6. Have they any idea how long six weeks is when you're chundering every few minutes???

I got another one, told a friend yesterday I was pregnant again and was saying how I'm not looking forward to suffering with SPD again (she also had it last time we were pregnant at the same time) she said "well maybe this time you will be lucky and it will be a boy and you won't get it"

WTF this really winds me up can the presence of a tiny penis or lack of really cause you to put on weight differently, crave different foods, hair grow differently etc do male foetuses secrete a lot of testosterone into the mother's bloodstream? Surely it can't make that much of a difference.

I've had 2 DDs and they were different pregnancies, what do motehrs of both think?

I have had 'you look ready to pop', 'god its grown,' and 'you're huge' today alone by different people

Someone told me to 'get DH the snip' How rude!!!!

Yes I am pregnant again yes its number 4, yes we are happy, and yes it was planned.....

bollox ive had spd with both pg's and both boys.

the comments on the size of my bump wind me up - esp as in one week I have had 2 people saying how massive I am and 3 saying my bump is small - make your bloody minds up!

The people that are really winding me up tho, as usual, are my family particularly my mother.

Tell them it's triplets and your having 2 adopted out.

barabmama - thats what I mean how can a tiny penis stop me producing too much relaxin and my pelvic joints becoming unstable, I've had SPD from 15 weeks with both pregnancies chances are I'm going to get it again

my mother has made a career out of annoying me

I know the baby has moved today, so my bump looks bigger.... but do they have to comment??

SPD is related to your body, pelvis shape, how you respond to relaxin etc etc - how on earth anyone can thing the gender of the baby would influence that is beyond me - how stupid. If you get it in your first pg then you are extremely likely to get it in all of them. People are so dumb.

My mother spends her whole time saying how tired I look and how is my back and then comes round and doesn't so much as lift a finger to clear the cups away after I make her a cup of coffee after waiting for 2 hours to see if she would offer, then expects me to give her a lift to the station which is a 10 min walk away even I've told her that driving is very painful now. Then she phoned me today to ask me to drive to a shop 1 1/2 hours away near where she lives to look at my sisters wedding dress, a wedding I am not even going to be at as they have decided to do it 2 weeks before my due date the other side of the world, and then tries to make me feel guilty about it when I said no. Astounding! Oh and did I mention that i have an eye infection and can only see out of one eye.

You're right, this is great, I do feel better ranting about it!

This thread is great!

Also hate the bump touchers. One friend of DH's did it when I was 12 wks and had no bump yet. He then asked if I was sure I was safe to be driving WTF!!!

My manager at work likes to promote the whole touchy feely "We're one big happy family" nonsense and whenever she is showing someone around she introduces me and explains I am pregnant and says "And we like to think of it as OUR baby,it's EVERYONE'S baby, it belongs to all of us here". To which I always want to yell 'NO IT IS EFFIN NOT! PISS OFF AND HAVE YOUR OWN BABY!"

I so wish I'd found this thread days ago. Things that have annoyed the cr*p out of me.

1. Being told by several people (inc. MIL) that they had never had a days morning sickness when I was puking for England around 5 times a day for 4 weeks. Implication seemed to be that they were Mother earth type and it was somehow my fault???

2. People asking me if I know the sex and then when i say no going "Oooooooh I'd want to know". Respect and all that but I don't.

3. People who have not had kids yet telling me about their friends who have blossomed and look fabulous/didn't look pregnant from the back/didn't get spots/had an amazing natural labour/had a 36 hour agonising labour resulting in C section.

4. People at work saying "I bet you're feeling the strain now aren't you?" before lumbering me with more work.

I could think of more but I've just got started.

I love it when people say "do you know what you're having" cos I get to say "rather hoping for a kitten this time"

When people touch your bump, pat them back. "I'm pg, whats your excuse" [pat,pat]. Or better still "my bump will be gone in a few months, what are you going to do about yours?" [poke,prod].

SK I've had two near identical pg's with a girl and then a boy. This pg is completely different so far, so clearly I am having a kitten.

ROFL Fruitful - I think I may have to use the kitten line.

I like this thread, really feel like a good moan today, I work part time and because of this when I walk in to the office part way through the day everyone is sat down working and notice me waddle in straight away.

The comments I get range from "you're blooming" (yeah blooming huge!)"bump is getting big" "you weren't that big last time."

You get the idea they are all centered around the obvious fact that I am quite heavily pregnant. Please can someone just say something else! i.e "your hair looks nice" or "I like that bag" But no day after day the obvious is stated.

AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!! {angry)

My mother phoned today and said "well you'll be stopping at 3 now" I said erm I don't know that's between DP and myself no one elses business. She said "well no one these days has anymore than 2 children and thats why everyone is asking if it's an accident!" WTF I told her I know loads of people with 3 or more children she was like "well I only know one person who has had more than 3 children" she is so if it hasn't happened to her or someone she knows she isn't interested. She also said that I should have no more as it's a cruel world these days and it's too hard to bring children into. That was me started I said "what crueler that 150 years ago when children were sent down mines at 5 years old, that's if they saw their 5th birthday or if their mother didn't die having them" I think todays world is the best ever to have children in with all the advances in modern medicine and sanitation.

That shut her up.

I really wish I didn't have to tell anyone until after the baby's born I really don't. I agree all people talk about is the pregnancy and the baby it's as if the rest of your life no longer exists.

Can I join in on the mothers rant!?

Had my gall bladder out last wednesday, and my mum came up last sunday to "look after me".

What a joke - she spent the whole time criticising me, DH, the new house, the garden, the cats, the car.

Apparently we're all going to have a huge shock when the baby comes along and it'll change our lives(well duh!) and she doesn't know how we'll cope. She seems to think that the fact that I only hoover once a fortnight, that we have 3 cats, that we enjoy watching films, and that we enjoy painting small models (don't ask...) means that the LO's life will be in danger. Constant comments of "you'll understand when you have the baby - then you'll know what its like". I am constantly compared to my big sister who is 13 years older than me and already have two kids. Obviously, my sister (who I get on OK with), her DH and DCs are perfect. My sister (as well as my mum) are completely OCD about cleanliness to the extent of fanatacism. I am not, yet they wonder now that the kids are going to school why they keep on getting tummy bugs - they have no immunity!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, as well as all the criticism, she stayed for 5 days, (4 days after I'd had a major operation) and didn't lift a finger to help around the house as she didn't want us to get in the habit of having things done for us. Its not like she's ever done anything for us previously - she lives 200 miles away, and we've only seen her twice in the last year!!!!

I know it was tough for her, because she left when I was young (6), hasn't spent more than 2 weeks with me since, and doesn't really know me. It doesn't give her the right to assume that I'm an incomplete version of her and my sister - I have my own personality, I'm my own person!!!!

Ooh sorry, that really was very ranty, but it was much needed! I feel so much better now!

Don't apologise that is what this thread is for pregnant ranting!

If you spend all your time cleaning you can't spend much time playing with your children. I was a very neat/clean freak before having children but I realised that I didn't want them to remember their childhood as their Mummy always cleaning so I limit the cleaning to about an hour in the morning and then the rest of the day is spent with them.

As for the cats when I first got pregnant someone said "so you'll be getting rid of your cats cos they smother babies for their milk" erm no they don't. I have 3 cats and it's more keeping the cats safe from the children. The cats sleep upstairs most of the day they aren't allowed in the DDs rooms. They come down when the DDs go to bed for a bit of attention. I don't think cats care about a new baby as long as their food is on time.