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I am a stay at home mom of a sweet little girl and her little baby brother! Madison was born in July 2004, and my life hasn't been the same ever since. I love staying home with her and Jonah and watching them change a little more with each day!

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

It's not okay....

...to comment on a woman's size just because she is pregnant! No matter what you are saying! LOL! And the comments are all over the place... that doesn't make it better. I've gotten the whispered aside to a co-worker, "Oh my God! Look at her... she is going to go into labor anytime!" As if I couldn't hear her. Ugh. On the other end of it, I've heard, "Really? You're really that close? You don't look big enough to be that far along." Not any better! "Boy, you're just all belly!" Yes, yes, I do realize this. See... that is where the baby is growing. Hence the weight gain in my belly. Duh. Just because a woman in pregnant doesn't mean you have a God given right to comment on her weight or size. How would a non-pregnant woman like it if I told her she was all belly? She wouldn't!

Yes, I know when I am out with Curtis I usually end up waddling trying to keep up with him. When he isn't with me I just walk really really slow so that I don't waddle.

Oh, but here is my embarrassing moment of the week. I was at Marsh with Madison who insisted on riding in one of those carts that has a little truck attached to the front. So when I get up to the line to check out I can't reach all the little things in the bottom of the cart. I can't reach from the back of the cart because there is still a seat on there that is keeping me from reaching anything. I can't go around the cart to the back because of that stupid truck thing Madison is sitting in and I can't reach from the side because the checkout lanes are too freaking narrow to fit my big belly alongside a shopping cart! So I am huffing and puffing like a moron trying to reach everything while the checkout guy is standing there with this smirk on his face. I could tell he wanted to bust out laughing at how ridiculous I must have looked. Needless to say, Madison is NOT riding in those truck carts until after baby comes unless Curtis is with us to help out! Yes, I laughed at myself, but that made it no less mortifying.

K

Comments on "It's not okay...."

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (7:02 PM) : 

I don't get it. Do women forget what it was like to be pregnant??? Rude people. What happened to "pregnancy is beautiful"? Or just simply asking how you're doing? (Although I got pretty sick of that after awhile!)

The end is the hardest and testiest part of the whole pregnancy. My favorite thing that I kept hearing was not only that I was all belly (really pleasant to hear, I agree!) but "your face doesn't look pregnant". And even after having my baby, I STILL have people rub my stomach and tell me that I was all baby. When does it end? :)

 

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