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Things you should never say to a very pregnant woman |
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by Kristen (December 2006) (rank 159th) |
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Speaking from experience, here they are...
- I never had morning sickness. Good for you/lucky for you. However, if someone is talking about their morning sickness, they don't want to hear about how you didn't have any. This is the equivalent to being in a major breakup because your boyfriend left you for a college cheerleader and your friend mentions that they have NEVER been broken up with before. In their whole life. And they still wear the same size they wore in high school. That's bad too.
- Wow, are you sure you are only 8 months pregnant? You look like you are going to go at any second. Not many of us feel comfortable walking up to someone and saying "Wow, you sure added a good 10 pounds over the holiday, huh?" so what makes anyone think it's OK to insinuate that a pregnant woman resembles, I don't know, the side of a barn.
- I never had heartburn. See Morning Sickness above.
- Are you having twins? If someone is having twins, they will tell you. I promise they will tell you.
- You should get as much sleep now as you can, because when that baby comes, you'll never get a chance to sleep. You should never say this for one simple reason--it is extremely difficult to get comfortable the last month or two before you give birth. And if you have heartburn, you have more troubles that you can imagine. It's not that very pregnant people DON'T want to sleep. It usually means that they can't. If you find someone who is saying things like, "I would love to sleep but I just have too much to do" because they are handpainting a mural on the baby's wall or staying up to all hours of the night knitting 40 pairs of baby booties, they don't need sleep anyway and will be the kind of person that is repotting the plants when the baby takes naps.
- Just think, it will all be over soon. Unless you are one hour from giving birth, "soon" is not soon enough.
- Just think. After you have that baby in your arms, it will all be worth it. This is a horrible fallacy. When your baby SMILES AT YOU for the first time, then it is all worth it. Until that moment, you will have to go through 24 hours of labor, give birth to a baby with the head the size of a bowling ball, recover from said delivery, try to figure out how to feed this helpless child, realize how complicated feeding said child is, come to the realization that you can read every book on the market and you STILL can't figure out if that is the "I'm hungry" cry or the "I'm tired" cry or the "I'm wet" cry, realize that you don't know what the heck you are doing, spend sleepless days and sleepless nights filled with not-so-great parents giving you not-so-great-parenting advice on everything you are doing wrong and slowly losing your mind. Then your baby will smile at you and it will all be worth it. Even if it is a gas-induced smile.
Feel free to add any others that come to mind. I know there are a million more out there.
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I dont ask
As a young mother of 2, I was always interested in other peoples condition. I asked a woman who came into the shop, when she was due. She looked venomously and stated "I had my baby 4 months ago". OOPS . Did not ask anyone that dangerous question again for 10 years. Then overcame with curiosity, I asked another woman. She gave me a reminiscently venomous look, and stated "I had my little boy 3 months ago !!!" OH *censored*. 
With my first son, I was carrying well and had suffered 6 and a half months of constant, 24 hour, debilitating morning sickness. I was actually 5 pound lighter then when I first fell pregnant (and I was a size 8 then). I had a work colleague come up to me, take me by the hand, sit me down and say "OH sweetie, I know what you are going through, I miscarried two children. Its hard isnt it. If you ever need to talk, just come and see me." I had to gently explain that I was, in fact, still pregnant. I don't think she believed me until I had Michael two weeks later.
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