Small bump and peoples comments

[NMc16]

Getting tired of people looking at my bump and saying ‘oh you’re very small. Is the baby moving ok?’ ‘Are you eating enough?’ ‘Are you putting on weight?’ ‘You don’t look pregnant’. Whether this is meant with good intentions or not the comments are frustrating. I’ve been seen by my midwife. My bloods are fine, my blood pressure is fine and the baby is fine. In fact they are weighing what they should be and no complications. I wish people would just mind their own business. I had lost weight in the first trimester due to nausea and food aversion and I’ve gained like half a stone since. Trust me I feel pregnant and eating non stop. Just wish I could curl away and ignore the world

Oh god! I’m usually easy going (even about appearance related comments!) but this is so annoying as it feeds our insecurity as to the health of the baby. Poor you.

I’ll say this: in both my pregnancies my bump was incredibly small and compact to the point that nobody ever stood up for me on a crowded train. I’m usually a boring/average size 12. My friend’s bumps, on the other hand, were huge (her words too) We were pregnant twice at almost exactly the same time. She kept mentioning the size of our respective bumps repeatedly and I got so worried in my first pregnancy as I thought the baby might be malformed.

Anyway, come birth, her babies were on the smaller side (7 pounds each time) and my first was huge (nearly 10 pounds!) and my second was medium (8 pounds) So bump size definitively means fuck all. All our babies were healthy and that’s the main thing. People can fuck right off!

Ppl just can't help comment. They probably don't mean to make u uncomfortable or anything . It wld be worse if it were the omg ur huge comments. My friend was quite big and lady at supermarket said to her oh u must be ready to drop, she's like em not really another 3 months to go 🤣 in the end she just started saying yes ur right!

The comments don't stop with bump size either. I brought DD in to work to show her off when she was a few months old. Someone I didn't know asked me how old she was. I said 4 months, they said wow she's huge what are u feeding her. Eh just milk 🙄 When I was pregnant with my second I was constantly asked if I was hoping for a boy. Then after I found out it was a girl it was all the oh ur husband must be disappointed, will u be trying for a 3rd and so on.