View Full Version : LOL: "So you're probably not going to get any bigger, right?"
luckytwenty
08-10-2010, 10:42 AM
My DH (who has been down this road with me twice before this time) asked me this a.m.
I'm 27 weeks...scheduled c-section at 38.5 weeks. Baby is now probably 3 lbs (was 2 lbs at 21 week ultrasound) and has to more than double between now and then.
I remember in the last few weeks having less than five articles of clothing that I could fit over my head.
Yeah, I think there's still room to grow!!!
swissair81
08-10-2010, 11:00 AM
Lol! I love it. The lady at 7-11 asked me yesterday when I'm going to have my baby already. Apparently, I'm HUGE. So glad she said that to me in front of a store full of people.
Uh and yeah, clothes that fit so nicely at 27 weeks just aren't doing the trick anymore at 36.5 weeks.
Well, not trying to engage in pregger one-upmanship . . . but on Friday I was asked FOUR times by strangers on the street if I was having twins. What makes this even more remarkable is that I spend 8 hours per day in total solitude in my office. So, this was four twin comments in about the four hours total I spent out and about that day . . .
In fact, I was walking with DH and telling him that I had been asked three times that day and he was saying how unbelievable that was when #4 cruised up us and said, "Are you having 1 or 2?"
luckytwenty
08-10-2010, 11:30 AM
Well, not trying to engage in pregger one-upmanship . . . but on Friday I was asked FOUR times by strangers on the street if I was having twins. What makes this even more remarkable is that I spend 8 hours per day in total solitude in my office. So, this was four twin comments in about the four hours total I spent out and about that day . . .
In fact, I was walking with DH and telling him that I had been asked three times that day and he was saying how unbelievable that was when #4 cruised up us and said, "Are you having 1 or 2?"
One up all you'd like! I am glad I'm not the only one who everyone seems to think has a "hidden twin" that the ultrasound just didn't pick up on! :-P
swissair81
08-10-2010, 11:42 AM
Well, not trying to engage in pregger one-upmanship . . . but on Friday I was asked FOUR times by strangers on the street if I was having twins. What makes this even more remarkable is that I spend 8 hours per day in total solitude in my office. So, this was four twin comments in about the four hours total I spent out and about that day . . .
In fact, I was walking with DH and telling him that I had been asked three times that day and he was saying how unbelievable that was when #4 cruised up us and said, "Are you having 1 or 2?"
Honey, in that arena, feel free to one up me anytime.
The day I ended up delivering I was in the elevator going to a normal NST apt. and the other lady in the elevator said I had quite the basketball tummy.......kinda cute comment, so I smiled and agreed with her.........then she said "you're having a boy then, right??!!" I said, no having a girl..........and the lady looked at me like I was lying to her!!
Of course then I felt like I had to defend myself! So I told her that the baby had just dropped and I will probably be delivering soon..........she was still giving me a look like "sure, you're having a girl".....
The day I ended up delivering I was in the elevator going to a normal NST apt. and the other lady in the elevator said I had quite the basketball tummy.......kinda cute comment, so I smiled and agreed with her.........then she said "you're having a boy then, right??!!" I said, no having a girl..........and the lady looked at me like I was lying to her!!
Of course then I felt like I had to defend myself! So I told her that the baby had just dropped and I will probably be delivering soon..........she was still giving me a look like "sure, you're having a girl".....
That's funny--in my husband's family, they say that a basketball means a girl. In fact, my 2 girls were basketballs, and my teeny sister had boys (dh could tell that they were). I'm carrying a basketball again, so we'll have to see if the theory holds true.
swissair81
08-11-2010, 09:22 AM
all of mine were basketballs. girls and boy. this current one is a basketball as well.
luckytwenty
08-11-2010, 10:27 AM
I am starting to think "it looks like a girl" is actually an insult because when you ask people what that means, they talk about girls "stealing their mothers' beauty" and big butts. I carried pretty much the same with all three (and I'm boy-girl-boy)--huge belly and boobs, skinny arms, face and legs, big butt. When I was pregnant w/ my daughter someone actually said to me, "It's got to be a girl. You look like ****." So now when anyone says, "It's a girl, right?" I have to hold myself back from saying, "Oh yeah? Well up yours, lady!!" (Sorry, I'm hormonal these days!)
SnuggleBuggles
08-11-2010, 10:32 AM
I am starting to think "it looks like a girl" is actually an insult because when you ask people what that means, they talk about girls "stealing their mothers' beauty" and big butts. I carried pretty much the same with all three (and I'm boy-girl-boy)--huge belly and boobs, skinny arms, face and legs, big butt. When I was pregnant w/ my daughter someone actually said to me, "It's got to be a girl. You look like ****." So now when anyone says, "It's a girl, right?" I have to hold myself back from saying, "Oh yeah? Well up yours, lady!!" (Sorry, I'm hormonal these days!)
What a b*tch!!!!
I guess I have heard that expression about stealing beauty online but never IRL. People say boy vs girl based on how mom is carrying- if you can only see mom is pg from the front that means one thing, if you can tell from the back that's the other. Not a commentary on mom's expanding butt. :)
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