Posted on 05/28/2014 10:38:45 AM PDT by Morgana
When you announce your first pregnancy, friends, coworkers, and family members all but pop a bottle of champagne and sit you down and start rubbing your feet. The joy! The excitement! So, naturally, when you tell people you're pregnant again, you're going to get that same jubilant reaction, right? Wrong. Maybe it's because you've been there, done that, but second (and third, and fourth) pregnancies don't seem to get quite the glee-filled responses first pregnancies get. Take it from moms who've experienced this first-hand.
Here are 25 obnoxious comments women have actually heard after telling people they're pregnant again.
Congratulations?
1. "When announcing my fourth pregnancy, my friend said, 'You do know what causes that, right?'"
2. "My sister-in-law asked me how I was feeling during my third pregnancy. I told her I was pretty tired. She said, 'And you're having another one?!'"
3. "You are done after this ... aren't you?"
4. "Again?!"
5. "Don't you feel bad that you're not going to pay as much attention to your daughter now?"
6. "One is easy ... just wait until you have two."
7. "With all the forms of birth control out there, there is no reason why someone should be pregnant if they don't wanna be." Well duh lady ... we wanted to be!
8. "Seriously?"
9. "But you have one of each. Why would you want to mess that up?"
10. "Please tell me it was a mistake."
11. "Are you sure? I mean you just had a baby."
12. "Wait, didn't you have fertility treatment last time?"
13. "God must have a sense of humor if he let your husband reproduce again."
14. "Now you will have to have a fourth baby so everyone can have someone to ride roller coasters with."
15. "It's hard enough finding someone to watch two kids, good luck finding someone to watch three."
16. “Don't you know what rubbers are?”
17. "So who is getting fixed after this one, you or your husband?"
18. "You shouldn't have married a Mormon, because he is always going to keep you barefoot and pregnant.”
19. “My mother told my sister, ‘She’s just trying to get a reaction out of me.’”
20. “With my last pregnancy, my boss told me I needed to have an abortion and get my tubes tied.”
21. "But you already have so many!”
22. “This one better be a boy.”
23. “Kids are expensive, you should have thought about that.“
24. "Again? Y'all need to put a sock in it.”
25. "But you're not married!”
Yikes! What's a rude pregnancy comment you've heard?
We had all 3 of our kids in the 1980s when it was NOT In Style to have children. I heard EVERY rude comment in the world. And we had been TRYING to have a baby for quite a while, were in our 30s, had been together 10 years, had been married 8 years.... We WANTED to have a family!
I loved every minute of it when they were kids at home with us, especially Christmas, Easter, Halloween, School Field Trips and Parties! We loved vacations with the kids, taking them to Disneyland for their first time and ours! Every thing was fun again, exploring national parks, caves, beaches, mountains, etc. Yet everyone said the meanest rudest things to us about having children.
I had to cut off friendships with 3 of my best friends because they were so negative about being married and having children. It was supposed to be the happiest time of my life, not the most depressing.
I was able to stay home with the kids and we had disposable diapers and life was FUN!
Exactly.
Having a child out of wedlock might be the normal thing today; but its immoral and bad for children.
not only should pregnant women get praise, they should get the best parking spots, discounts at stores, etc....
and our three kids are WONDERFUL adults all in their early 30s. Oldest son is married since 2007 to his college sweetheart. Middle daughter is married since 2010 and blessing us with our first grandchild in Sept. Youngest son is still looking for Miss Right, he doesn’t smoke,drink,cuss,lie,speed. Is more mature than I am! LOL He is involved with a homeless mission in Costa Mesa. He got us to go back to church after we had not gone for 10 years. My kids are my JOY IN LIFE! We just visited with them for a week, and what a joy they are to be with. I adore them in every way.
27. Damn. Aren’t there enough ugly people in the world already?
That one and several others are clearly just meant as a joke. The author needs to acquire a sense of humor.
It’s not having a baby our of wedlock that’s immoral; it’s having sex out of wedlock that’s immoral.
“It’s not having a baby our of wedlock that’s immoral; it’s having sex out of wedlock that’s immoral.”
True and even worse the abortion to cover it up.
Mostly they were farmers and so they needed large families but royal families also produced many offspring.
We are more modern and prosperous in many ways, but maybe in some ways we are not.
You are blessed.
More funny than rude
It's a joke - my dad told me that one every time!
It's not something a man should say to an un-related women though...
Now, be very, very careful handling grandkids.
Babies are infectious. You can catch them from your husband.
I’ve actually said that one, and told my friend to marry the father. It was her second child by the man with both pregnancies being intentional.
#28. What did you do to get punished with a baby?
After going through IVF, when I called my mother-in-law to tell her I was pregnant, she slammed the phone down in my ear. It’s been almost 24 years, and I have yet to hear “congratulations.”
Some appear to be a close facsimile, though.
After #4, we often heard, “What are you? Catholic? Or sexy Baptist?”
By far, “don’t you know what causes that?” gets #1 - & everyone who says it thinks they are being original - DUH!! I always got them back with, “Yes, & we decided we like it!” Silence always followed.
I always included that my wife didn’t want any & I wanted 5....& we have 8.
Top award for originality goes to a woman, hearing my wife wanted none - “so you are either the world’s best salesman - or the world’s best lover.”
To which I answered, “how about both?”
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