Oh, its started already! So far I've been called a 'silly cow' and been asked 3 times if it was 'planned!'

[Disenchanted]

How far along are you? - as they say

Because there's worse to come

Only 5 weeks!!

This is from my friends and family ( the silly cow was shouted to me down the phone by the cleaner at my mums workplace!! Never met the woman in my life!)

God knows what Ill get from strangers when my bump apperas and Im out with the other kids!

Ages 3 + almost 2!

Plus the fact I look about 17 doesn't help!

congrats disenchanted Tell em all to Feck off if they have nothing positive to say.

I would like to look young

wait until you're preggers with no 4

Disenchanted, I'm awaiting similar looks as I push my not yet 1 year old DD as I take DS to school. But it's the opposite for me agewise as I'm 39....and look every minute of it!

Why are three kids or more looked at sideways these days?

At least Im married this time! lol

lol

tell them you are planning three more after this one; that'll shut em up!

When I was pregnant with ds2, pushing ds1 (then just over 2) along in his buggy, a random, slightly-worse-for-wear stranger gave dh and me an earful about feckless young scroungers having loads of children

Just wanted to say congratulations what lovely news. Some people are very rude and well worth ignoring imo.

PMSL Berolina! How rude!

How rude! I can't believe people think it's thier place to comment! What's it got to do with anyone?!

Congratulations. (Was it planned? )

Congratulations! Fab news.

So how long do you reckon it will be before...

"How will you cope?"
"Rather you than me"
"Surely you must want a boy/girl" - delete as appropriate.

People are mad. Why cant they just be positive - new life is a wonderful thing!

xxx

I assumed from your thread title that this must be number 5 at lest! When did having three children become a weird thing to do?

I think I alredy congratulted you on another thread, but congratulations anyway

Three children is seen as weird though, but as I have two DDs I am obviously only having a third to try for a boy.

I have been asked twice now if I have a TV

Oh and when you get "oh you'll be hoping for a boy then?" and you say "no it's a girl actually" you get the sympathetic looks and "nevermind as long as it's healthy" since when was a female baby some sort of curse?

People say the strangest things to pregnant people - I am having twins, a boy and girl, and so many people have said 'how lucky - now you won't need to have any more'.

How is that relevant? Like if it was two girls we'd just HAVE to have another cos life isn't worth living without a son???

Im expecting that alot too Neenz, as I have 2 boys.

Oh god yes, every seems to think they have to make some sort of stupid comment about it. I'm 36 weeks now with DC3 who will be our first boy and thankfully people seem to have given up on the 'don't you know what causes it?' 'Surely two was enough', 'oh you must be so please to have a boy at last' etc etc.

Now with 4 weeks to go I get complete strangers telling me I am huge / tiny etc etc . On top of that both DDs are taking advantage of my limited mobility and playing up big time in public so I get all the looks (and sometimes comments) of how I shouldn't have had any more if I can't 'cope' with the two I have.

Pregnant with my 1st- mum goes "Do you think that if you had a job that fulfilled you, you'd be having this baby?" WHAT?

Ooh, you'll have your hands full

Congratulations to you.

Bollocks to them.

Tell them you are planning two more.
How will you cope? Tell them very well, thank you.
Rather you than me? Yes, some of us are just cut out for it, aren't we?

Oh, and when you're 9 months pregnant, someone will say "You are Huuuuge!" Yes,I have a whole other person in here".

Of course, on really hormonal days, you are perfectly entitled to simply tell them to "piss off"!

Ooooh now you've got me started...

I've got a 30 month old, a 13 month old and am now 4 months pregnant again. When i told my Mum i was pregnant she said "oh no, that is terrible, how will you cope?". When i told my Grandad that i had some news for him he said "You're not bloody pregnant again are you?".

My Mum constantly says things to me and starts her sentences with "the problem with the age gap that you've got is..." For some reason this fricking bugs the hell out of me. It's like i have chosen to do it wrong where she did it right!

Congratulations disenchanted!!!

I'm an only child and I'd love to have 3 or 4 kids. There's not really a limit unless I'm too tired or my fanjo is starting to fall apart

I think it's great to have more than the middle class ideal of 2 kids, a dog, cat and volvo. The more the merrier. I can't understand why people would make snide remarks as to how many children you can have in a certain time frame. Is there a yearly ratio or what?

People have also made weird remarks when they found out I was pregnant. The girl I go to for blow dries said: "Oh I'm so sorry for you. My full sympathy. Let's not make a habit out of it, eh." WTF ???

When they heard I'm giving up my minted City job to follow my dp to Asia and enjoy my pregnancy (which I think is the luxury) I was told: "You've f*cked your career with getting preggars." "Oi, are you gonna get a Wizards' Sleeve" and "Was the stress getting too much on the desk? i.e.: Are you not coping with work."

Also everyone seems to think they can tell me what gender would be best, assuming it was an accident and patting my tummy which makes me jump a mile.

Hrumpf...

My god Alexa!

What did you reply to those awful comments?!

Disenchanted that's awful!

Sadly we told DH's parents on Saturday and they both looked at us with utter shock and horror! Then MIL pulled her face together and said "ooh that's lovely" and FIL said "but it was an accident wasn't it, I mean you wouldn't have deliberately had a third would you?"

My mum was lovely about it all (I'm one of 5 so I guess she's biased)

No one else will know until 12 weeks. Although I did go into Gap last week to get some long vests to go under my normal clothes as my tummy is already swollen. And got some good practice in taking the flak when I mentioned to the assistant why I needed them.

"This will be your first then?" "No, third". "So your eldest are both at school then? How old are they?" "They're twin girls, they're nearly three". "Are you mad? Rather you than me, you're not going to know what's hit you. I stuck at two, that's what most people do. But still you might have a boy this time, I guess you're holding out for a boy?" "Er, no we'll be delighted with whatever we have".

I'm just not telling anyone again ever. I'll just say I've had a huge curry and it's bloated my stomach