What’s the weirdest thing someone said to you when you were pregnant?
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Pregnant women attract them all: touchers, sharers, scarers and oddballs. What’s won the foot-in-mouth competition for you? Here are the shockers I’ve collected so far.
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Pregnant women attract them all: touchers, sharers, scarers and oddballs. What’s won the foot-in-mouth competition for you? Here are the shockers I’ve collected so far.
Rose
‘Nothing weird but lots of strangers/acquaintances who were happy to pass judgement on the size of the belly, over the course of the day it would be huge then tiny then huge again according to the random speculator...’
Stella
‘I remember a work-related acquaintance actually feeling sorry for me, that I was pregnant. "Ohhh. You're pregnant? That's such a shame," she said. Puzzled, I asked her why. "You would have had so much creativity to contribute still," she said, naively referring to my anything-but-stellar career in a now defunct publishing company. I actually feel sorry for her, that she thinks children are more about drudgery than joy and that work is the sole measure of creative and personal satisfaction. 'Cos she's wrong!’
Shelley
‘People kept asking me what I was having, I just said hopefully a human baby...?!’
Klara
‘Everyone always asks, ‘So are you excited?’ Too bad if I turned around and said no!’
Emma (a very smart doctor type)
‘I have no baby, but have always been fascinated by how other women feel the need to share birthing horror stories with pregnant women: tearing, bleeding, stitches, episiotomies and who knows what else. For what purpose?! It's all a bit cruel really!’
Amalia
‘An old woman came up to me in a cafe when I was about six months pregnant and started stroking the nape of my neck...then said I was having a girl because of the shape of my neck.’
Lucia
‘I was a bit weirded out by the number of men that asked if I intended to breastfeed and then proceeded to give me their opinion on the subject.’
Saskia
‘It might be a little wrong to say this publicly, but I remember how my male yoga teacher guessed I was having a boy because he said I looked so happy and according to him, ‘Women are only truly happy when there is a $%^#% inside them’!!! Shock. Horror. And wrong on every level.’
Now, over to you….
(Please note: all names have been changed.)
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