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?
I know someone who had 8 boys!
I was such a wise-ass I’m embarrassed now. My idea of a joke was to looked shocked and say to a pregant woman who was with her husband: “Who did this to you!?”
No grandkids here. Kids are too young to live independently and marry and yes, those two should go together.
I have to admit it, but years ago made an incredible faux pas.
A friend of mine, a somewhat large woman who I thought was still pregnant, walked into a bar we frequented and said, “Hi.” I asked, “When are you having the baby?” She said, “I did, three days ago.”
I have a friend who has a sister one year older than her and two sisters 12 and 13 years younger than her. Someone asked the youngest sister once if she was a “mistake.” Her response “No, I was planed as a playmate for the mistake.”
You do know a man only wants to poke a little fun and you took him serious . Better learn how to roll-over and go to sleep sometimes.
I have a pic of my Great grandmother and Great grandfather and their eleven kids, taken in 1895.
My Daughter in law is making a Family History Wall in their house. I want to see what the ridge runners on her side of the family come up with.
Is that better or worse than looking pleased, and then asking the obviously pregnant couple “Congratulations! Do you know who the mother is?”
24 obnoxious statements to justify the 25th. Clever.
When we had our third child the first thing I asked my wife was ... how much is our obama check now???
We have a winner!
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.
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Buffyt, I ADOPTED four newborns and lost a best friend who felt I was HIDING from the world by staying home and raising my children.
And this professional is a person who counsels people for big bucks.
Best movie ever.
I recently made a rude pregnancy comment to my cousins 18 yr old daughter who already has one baby 11 months old, is on welfare, and lives with them.
She told me that her and her boyfriend “are gonna try for another”.
I said....don’t you think you should be financially able to take care of the one you have before you ‘try for another’?
My cousin just looked at me and smiled.
“Who did this to you!?”
I recall being in the hospital room with my wife trying the comfort massage and talking that we had learned in birth class. At one point she grabbed me by the neck and yelled “GO AWAY!! YOU DID THIS TO ME!!!”
We have 3 boys aged 9, 7, and 2. Having the time of my life. Wanted to have more but the third pregnancy and birth were very difficult for my wife. Complications almost killed her and our third son. So we had to cool it. People should be having more kids.
Yeah, the forelon hope they give you.
LOL!
25 as it stands isn’t rude.
a real rude one would be “a baby at YOUR AGE?”
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