the strangest response you have had to telling someone you are pregnant ?

[sazlocks]

I thought that two of my colleagues asking if it was planned was pretty odd but got the strangest so far today on telling a friends 20 something daughter who said " oh never mind" to which her mother replied "she doesn't do children" charming !

dc2 due. dd is 3. i am married. my grandmother's response to news of dc2..

'oh. are you pleased?'

MIL said "Oh," and then carried on with the previous conversation.

She did the same thing when DH told her we were getting married, and also when BIL announced his engagement.

It takes about a week for important news to sink in.

Im a carer and there is this one lady i see each day. Each day she asks me the same questions "was it planned or an accident?" "If it had anything wrong with it woud you get rid of it?" Really really strange and not very nice! I would NEVER ask anyone was it planned, it's got nothing to do with anyone else has it! Plus she knows DF and i have been together for 8 years and already have DD who is 3...Now we have found out it's probably a girl which we are really happy about (didn't mind girl or boy) she is now trying to comfort me, saying every day "dont worry, im sure you will get a boy next time, never mind" !!!!! Im getting mad just thinking about it lol. Every day the same convo...grrr. The "never mind you will get a boy next time" is also DF's grandparents fave comment Wierdos.

I told my class of 12 and 13 year olds and pretty much their first response was could they run a 'guess the name of MrsKingRolo's baby' competition for Children in Need day.

The girl running the competition told me that the baby would be a girl and that I would call her Aleesha.

Lots of people have responded with 'Well, it's about bloody time!' or 'Took you long enough, didn't it?'. We tried to conceive for 18 months before succeeding.

Rude bastards.

With both of mine (DS1 and currently 18 weeks pregnant) ive had people ask whether they were planned. Yes they bloody well were, not that accidents are bad anyway (I was an accident!) It almost seems like its the usual response nowadays, just because I didnt take out a newspaper advert informing people we were TTC, we didnt have time I literally just have to decide to get pregnant and I am!
My boss also thought I was joking, but once he realised I wasnt he just looked mildly panicked!!

My MIL has 3 children - DH is the youngest and only son so I thought when we announced the first 'heir tot eh family name', she or FIL would be a little excited. Something along the lines of 'my baby is having a baby'...

But no, we got "But I'm not ready for number 6" !!?!! DGC5 was only 6 months old at the time but still!!

Announcing I was pregnant with DC2 - 7th grandchild but no other babies since our now 2 year old DS - we got a half hearted "congratulations" closely followed by "bad timing though" as baby is due December 27th.

Just seems she can never be happy for us. She'll have no more chances though, we're not having any more.

My Mum made up for it by screaming and hugging us both times, adding a "you make such beautiful babies" for DC2

my father - 'well, that's your life ruined now'
and my mother - 'do you know who the father is?'. Despite me telling her that my fiance and I were expecting a baby. and that we've been together for 5 years, and are engaged etc etc.

Both now deny they said anything of the sort, and they are now telling me what an awful mother I'll be as I'm basically not them. Thank god I live 7 hours drive away...

I've posted this here a few times, my mum said 'I won't get my hopes up' caring response to me telling her I was pg again following a mc Obviously if I had lost the baby her not getting too excited would make it much easier to deal with...

I know it was meant kindly, and it was nice, but I thought,

'Oh, you CLEVER girl!' was a bit strange. It's not exactly rocket science, is it?

"how about your cats"
we only had 2 cats when DS was born - arent i allowed to have children as well as cats !
jokingly told them that the baby would have to go..........
unfortunately only got 1 cat now and both DCs love him so much

"you're certainly knocking them out aren't you!"

My (2) DD's are almost 3 years apart, and this was from a (male) colleague who has 5 children with 13-20 month gaps between them! Cheeky b*stard!!!

"Why on earth weren't you careful?" from a colleague when I decided to share the brilliant news that I was finally pregnant.

I had been ttc for 8 years after an ectopic.

A colleague said but aren't you worried about ruining your career, having a baby at your age?

I said what?

She said well if you get behind in your early twenties you might never catch up again.

I said I'm 36, and I fucking love you.

MIL when told my EDD was in December - "It's a shame you couldn't have waited a month or two, you've spoilt our record". (They've had one grandchild per year for the last 7 years and have already had one this year). She was only joking though - she's lovely really

My own mother on the other hand "Ooh, December ! That's really bad timing. Its rubbish having a December baby". My birthday is in December

I got "you're blooming" when I met an old colleague on returning to work 6 months after the birth To give him his due, he was more embarrassed than me.

these are hilarious. Upon hearing of my second pregnancy my FIL said " well what have you been up to then?" to which I could only reply" well I think that's fairly obvious don't you !"

I've heard this response more times than i care to remember ' I take it this one was an accident?'. Admittedly not many people plan to have 4 children these days particulary not 3 in just over 2 years, but what can i say? we're thrilled and, as a soon to be new mother again at 42 i feel priviledged to be pregnant The funniest response we've had is being told to buy a wide screen tv and to learn to watch it in the evenings instead!

"Another child for someone else to bring up then?"

From elderly lady neighbour. Commenting on the fact that I go out to work and used a CM. I comforted myself with the fact that she was lonely and old and couldn't help herself

My Mum said "Ooooooh Kkkkkkaaaayyyyy" in that long drawn out way that means she is starting to make plans in her head. My Dad said "I knew it, I did, I knew it, I told your Mum, I just knew, I did, I knew it, you ask your brother, he'll tell you, I told him...etc" Didn't think to mention it to me though, did he?!

I think my reaction at 12 week scan was a classic..."TWINS, WE CAN'T HAVE TWINS, SCAN AGAIN, YOU'VE BEARLY CHECKED!!"

On expecting DD3 [not planned] one of my oldest friends said 'it will ruin your life'

Many people on being told baby [dd1] was due in june- 'oh dear it will be the youngest in the class at school'

When mil produced undiagnosed twins her mil said to her DH 'DH how could you!'

Dad on the phone - "What??!! Oh My God!"

SiL not telling her children till I was well past 20 weeks as "it's probably going to be OK now" like she was waiting for the mc news Goodness knows what she'll do if (heaven forbid) the baby isn't perfect in every way

So im not the only one with a mother who has a knack of dampening any form of excitement I muster up about anything in my life. Why do we do it eh? Everytime something good happens in my life I reach for the phone to tell my mum first - why why why??? It always ends in me totally deflated.
1st PG - "WHAT" "HOW" "you didn't tell me you were trying" " I thought you'd wait" (together for 13 years, married for 4.5 and just turned 30 and 33).

This PG - slightly better, cracked a smile (I think) then "but you didn't tell me you were trying"?

Did my mother actually want to know that we were "doing it" regularly, did she need to know, weird!!

Stranger still though, the doctor when I went to announce my second PG. Again, im now 32, married for 7 years with a two year old....solum face followed by "WAS IT PLANNED", "ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT IT" "SO, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT IT"? I was struggling to convince her that I wasn't there to book a termanation or anything!! I went home to check my face out in the mirror, see if someone had injected me with botox in the night and I had failed to do a happy enough face!