Believe it or not, I’ve actually been asked, “Were you not on birth control?” by coworkers! I was incredulous! I suppos it’s because my boyfriend and I are not married. I retorted with, “Well, babies can be made whether you’re on birth control or not.” Her response… “Well, are you at least getting married? You know it’s the right thing to do.” I just said, “Well, I haven’t asked him yet.” Any other personal, insensitive questions are answered with a loud and raucous fart. (My baby makes me gassy!) If they’re going to be rude enough to ask those kinds of questions, I have no qualms with being rude back!! And… it works!

Cuando una chica embarazada comenta a su amiga “estoy embarazada” y esta amiga responde :

Here’s some of my faves (I’m due any day and still getting them)

A not very bright male co worker, seeing me arrive at work with a walker for my Pelvic Girdle Pain, went ‘yeah, my wife gained 55 pounds too’. Uh, first off, my inability to walk has nothing to do with weight, and I had only gained 30 pounds.

Before I got the walker, I was limping down the hall in pain one day, and the CEO started walking in the other direction, imitating my ‘pregancy waddle’. What a comedian.

“ARE YOU SURE THERES ONLY 1 IN THERE?” I get this every time I go out in public. It grows very tiresome.

“Have you thought of any names yet?” Yes, and I’m not telling, because I’m pretty sure you won’t like any of them. OR, even better, I’ve had a few people say ‘well as long as you dont name her something like —–’ which is actually what we’re naming her. Boy, will they feel dumb later.

At 6 months – “Won’t be long now, huh?”

Finally, this is an exchange that happens a lot, and drives me crazy. I’ve had a hard pregnancy and am in pain a lot. So when people ask me how I am, I rarely say ‘peachy’, cause, well, that would be a lie. But still, is this really necessary?

“SO, how are you?”
“Me: Tired.”
“You think you’re tired NOW? Just wait till the baby’s born! Cackle, cackle, cackle…”

worst question i was asked in my third pregnancy, over and over and over and over, and then a couple of times more, was “is this your first?” my first son was stillborn at 41 weeks, and my second pregnancy ended in a 2nd trimester miscarriage. i know people were just trying to make small talk, but many people have had at least one miscarriage, if not far worse and more, and it’s a dumb question anyway. if i say, “yes,” then i get some crappy unsolicited parenting advice. if i say, “no,” then the next question is, “so how many do you have at home?” there’s no win. i started saying, “no, we lost our first,” which ends the dumb questions but is a real conversation killer.

the worst question i wasn’t asked was for permission to touch my belly. if someone asks if they can, and i know it’s coming, i don’t mind it at all, but it is incredibly rude to reach out and touch another adult’s midsection in the workplace or standing in line at the grocery store. i hate that!

I work for a small Catholic publisher, and one of my coworkers is a priest. He’s a great guy, but just the other day he saw me (after being away for a few weeks) and actually said, “Wow, you’re looking a little chunky now!”

I get the “how are you feeling?” a lot, which can get tiresome after the thousandth time, but it’s OK.

The question that annoys me the most right now is “Have you thought of any names yet?” We have, months before I even got pregnant, but we’re not telling anybody for various reasons. So I don’t blame people for asking the question, because it’s a totally common one, but I just don’t know how to rephrase our ambiguous answer when the same people keep asking over and over.

Thank goodness nobody’s been rude to me! I probably would just break down and cry

A friend was at the doctor’s for the first ‘booking appointment’ after having just discovered that she was pregnant with her second. Her first was 7 years at the time and she herself in her early 30′s and she was quite ecstatic at this.
The conversation with the doc went as follows:
Doc: So, how can I help you today?
Friend: Well I just found out I am pregnant and….
Doc: and you want to get rid of it, right? OK!

I second, “Was it planned?” and “When are you having the next one?”

I would also like to add saying to a pregnant woman, “Are you going to do it naturally?” There is no correct answer to this. If you say, “Yeah,” then they smugly laugh and say, “Oh , just wait,” or (my favorite) “No one gives you a prize for not getting an epidural.” If you say, “No, I want an epidural,” then they tell you all the epidural horror stories they know.

I had fun telling everyone who had never had a baby that I planned to have drugs, but not an epidural. That confused them and shut them up.

This did not actually happen to me, but it did happen to a friend of mine….while shopping at the mall, a woman asked ” So, are you keeping the baby?”. Seriously.

1. “Are you an unwed mother?” the supermarket checkout boy asked me, seeing me with my two toddlers, with no ring on my finger. (My ring was too tight with all the baby weight gain.)

2. A male coworker was walking behind me when I was 8 months pregnant. He said, “you’re really starting to waddle now.” I should have responded, “you’re really starting to go bald now!”

No, people are just thoughtless and rude.

I had so many people ask how far along I was, which is fine… but then follow up with a comment on how huge I was and how I looked like I could have the baby next week. This started on week 20. I stopped going to the place I get my nails done because the exchange was inevitable. 7 weeks pp I went back there for some reason and mentioned I wanted my nails short because I had a newborn at home and didn’t want to inadvertently scratch her. The woman said to me “Oh, you already had your baby? I thought you were still pregnant.” Wow. That made me feel just great.

Relax people, really. Folks are just interested, that’s all. Do you always say the perfect thing??

The question that bugged me the most, being not quite 2 weeks post-partum, “When are you having another?” That just floored me.

I guess this isn’t rude, per say, but I am so tired (at 31 weeks) of being asked when I am due. I am going to start saying December just to see the looks on people’s faces!!

The whole have girls trying for a boy comments have been just horrible this time around. Before we knew it was a boy we were constantly being asked if we were “hoping” for a boy and once we found out everyone has been congratulating us on “the boy” as if we would have been disappointed had it been different. Often this happens right in front of our two girls – most of these people are over the age of 60 and I know they mean well but I still want to punch them.

I remember cringing at the horror stories people wanted to tell me about their own 36-108 hour labors. I didn

40 weeks pregnant with the world’s largest baby…male SVP in company tells me that if I scrub my kitchen floor and take castor oil baby will come…baby will come when baby wants to come, jack***.

Twice. At Lowe’s, while pushing around my twin daughters, pregnant with #3. From different guys:

“You do know how that keeps happening, right?”

(Okay, I get it. Sane people don’t have a set of twins then another one spaced 10.5 months apart. It was probably just a fear reflex that made them open their mouthes in the first place)