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swissair81
06-30-2010, 05:16 PM
(from my 16yo bro who just came home from OOT school)- Wow, you're really fat.

(from the stranger in the supermarket checkout line)- You're pregnant with your FOURTH baby? Don't you have a TV?

(from my 7 year old dd) Mommy, your belly button is inside out! It's soooo weird!

(from my 20 month old- this was his first complete sentence. Now he says it all day long)- Mommy, I need you!

(from another random stranger) Wow, so when were you due?

I could go on, but these were the best of the bunch.

luckytwenty
06-30-2010, 05:25 PM
Aww, that one from your 20 month old is so sweet!

I can relate to a lot of those. I haven't gotten "fat" but do you think 9-10 HUGEs=1 fat?

And when I say I am due in late Oct/early Nov, I always get, "Are you sure?" Or "Is it twins?"

Also, with us having a boy and a girl, I can't tell you how many people ask if this baby was an accident. And when I say no, they honestly don't understand why!

The comment that really rubs me the wrong way is, "You were so skinny before and now you're so big!" Um, yeah, thanks. Like that thought hasn't passed my mind, jerk!

Don't you wish people would just say, "How are you feeling?" Or, "How exciting! Another baby!"

arivecchi
06-30-2010, 05:26 PM
(from my 16yo bro who just came home from OOT school)- Wow, you're really fat.

(from the stranger in the supermarket checkout line)- You're pregnant with your FOURTH baby? Don't you have a TV?

(from another random stranger) Wow, so when were you due?

I could go on, but these were the best of the bunch. The kids' comments are cute. :) The others.......

:eek::47::13:

swissair81
06-30-2010, 05:28 PM
I love the TV comment. It makes me crack up. (Especially because the answer is no.)

arivecchi
06-30-2010, 05:29 PM
I love the TV comment. It makes me crack up. (Especially because the answer is no.) That comment could get you fired and/or punched here... :nono:

Cheburashka
07-01-2010, 08:04 AM
Heh, the accident line got thrown around a lot over here. Technically DD was an accident, but it's still so rude to ask someone, even if you are family. I think I nearly bit my tongue off with all the times I had to stop myself from responding "no more than you were".

I never got big enough to have people ask me if I was having twins, but I still like the line my mom used when she was pregnant with me (I was a mondo fat baby) - "I think I'm having an elephant." I really wanted to say that to someone.

lizzywednesday
07-01-2010, 08:12 AM
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Don't you wish people would just say, "How are you feeling?" Or, "How exciting! Another baby!"

Yeah, but they usually say something along the lines of what my dad's mom said to him when he told him my mom was expecting my sister (her 4th):

"Gerald, you have to stop doing this."

BTW, babies are hope for the future. Having more means you've got more hope, doesn't it???? (And congrats to OP on 4 and you on 3 ... being one of 4 myself, I have a soft spot for "big" families!!!)

swissair81
07-01-2010, 08:19 AM
Both my dh & I are from families with 9 kids. I wonder what Mrs Nosy would have said to our parents? It makes me giggle just thinking about it.

I never called myself an elephant, but I once told my dr that lying down on the exam table at 38 weeks made me feel like a beached whale. I got a lot of laughs out of that line.

LadyPeter
07-01-2010, 10:34 AM
I love the TV comment. It makes me crack up. (Especially because the answer is no.)

You should have said, "Yes, but all we watch is porn."

swissair81
07-01-2010, 10:45 AM
You should have said, "Yes, but all we watch is porn."

ooh, I have to remember that one and put it to good use.

newg
07-01-2010, 01:18 PM
I got some awful comments when I was pregnant with DD........strangers did not believe me when I said I was having a girl because I was carrying soooo far out in front.
And then the look on their faces when I told them i was due at the end of March (and it was only Dec, or Jan....) grrrrrrrrr...

This time I'm having people ask me if we're going to try for a third so DH can have a boy......like having two girls isn't good enough.

swissair81
07-01-2010, 02:02 PM
I hate the- are you hoping for the other kind- questions. What's up with those?

Also, I always carry the same exact way & I have both.

sste
07-02-2010, 02:04 PM
Well, I waited to post because I didn't want to be a thread-stealer but I think I truly have the grand-daddy of all obnoxious comments. I was visiting my parents and sister last week and feeling great in my pretty, new maternity clothes that DH splurged on for me at a local boutique.

My sister points to my belly button (which is NOT particularly prominent and an innie) and says in this fake-innocent, sing-song voice, "It looks like you have a teeny, little penis growing out of your stomach."

For some reason, it was the most upsetting, disgusting comment to me - - I felt almost physically ill with that particular mental image, I literally deflated in my new maternity sundress, and felt like crying/knocking her senseless. It didn't help that the comment I am sure was intended to be a little mean-spirited.

swissair81
07-02-2010, 02:09 PM
For some reason, it was the most upsetting, disgusting comment to me - - I felt almost physically ill with that particular mental image, I literally deflated in my new maternity sundress, and felt like crying/knocking her senseless. It didn't help that the comment I am sure was intended to be a little mean-spirited.

That is totally & utterly disgusting. At least I know all the comments were intended to be humorous or the person just didn't know that some questions shouldn't be asked. I'm just speechless. Ew!

c&j04
07-02-2010, 10:17 PM
This one actually made me laugh then and still does 9 wks later....
I came home from the hospital weighing a tad bit MORE than when I went in. I was barely up and around waiting to be discharged, one of my younger brothers walks in and says "another one already?!?! Isn't one enough for now?" Mom was so horrified:)

newg
07-02-2010, 10:30 PM
My sister points to my belly button (which is NOT particularly prominent and an innie) and says in this fake-innocent, sing-song voice, "It looks like you have a teeny, little penis growing out of your stomach."

For some reason, it was the most upsetting, disgusting comment to me - - I felt almost physically ill with that particular mental image, I literally deflated in my new maternity sundress, and felt like crying/knocking her senseless. It didn't help that the comment I am sure was intended to be a little mean-spirited.

OMG, that is horrible. I think I would have left and not spoken to my sister for a while. Your sis better get you an awesome baby gift to make up for that.

ewpmsw
07-03-2010, 12:42 PM
In re the penis comment - Does your sister have any kids yet? I'd have told her that all kinds of strange things happen when we're pregnant and it's normal to grow one. Doesn't she know that?

sste
07-04-2010, 02:37 PM
In re the penis comment - Does your sister have any kids yet? I'd have told her that all kinds of strange things happen when we're pregnant and it's normal to grow one. Doesn't she know that?

That would have been brilliant! DS has no kids yet. Unfortunately, I don't think I have developed fast reflexes to respond to penis comments directed at MY body!! Even DH was shocked into speechlessness . . .

I am so glad you all get it. DH thinks the whole thing is bizarre but cannot understand why I find it so physically, viscerally disgusting even days after The Comment - - I feel much better after reading that other posters feel like I do. Ewwww is right!

BabyBearsMom
07-06-2010, 12:04 PM
I definitely got the "Are you sure you aren't having twins?" But the worst was from a male co-worker "Do you think you will EVER lose all that weight?"
The disgust in his voice was palpable.

The thing I really hated was all the people constantly fondling my belly. Perfect strangers in stores. The worst was a lady I work with who went to grab my belly, missed and instead grabbed my breasts in front of my boss when we were sitting down to a meeting. I was so mortified.

swissair81
07-06-2010, 12:06 PM
I definitely got the "Are you sure you aren't having twins?" But the worst was from a male co-worker "Do you think you will EVER lose all that weight?"
The disgust in his voice was palpable.

The thing I really hated was all the people constantly fondling my belly. Perfect strangers in stores. The worst was a lady I work with who went to grab my belly, missed and instead grabbed my breasts in front of my boss when we were sitting down to a meeting. I was so mortified.

OMG! (to both)

maestramommy
07-07-2010, 07:32 AM
:hug5::hug: Your bro, smack him upside the head (I have a much younger bro too)

Strangers, ugh. Some people just don't think:hug5:

KrisM
07-07-2010, 07:49 AM
The thing I really hated was all the people constantly fondling my belly. Perfect strangers in stores. The worst was a lady I work with who went to grab my belly, missed and instead grabbed my breasts in front of my boss when we were sitting down to a meeting. I was so mortified.

I hated the belly touching. If someone asked if they could touch my stomach, I said "yes, as long as I can touch yours". And if they didn't ask, I just did the same to them.

swissair81
07-07-2010, 08:32 AM
Seriously, I must have a sign on me that says 'keep away'. For 4 pregnancies now, no one has laid a finger on me. Or even attempted to.

sste
07-07-2010, 01:17 PM
Swissair, I want to borrow some of your bad-a*s pregnancy karma that keeps the touchers away!

Also, I remembered another one - - from last pregnancy, my dear father, "Look at the pot on you."

Basically, after visiting my family I am DELIGHTED to endure the mere everyday, insensitive comments from strangers about twins, how big I am, etc.