I was at a meeting last night for J’s school. On my way out, I said good night to the security guard, with whom I am friendly. He had someone there talking with him, but he paused to say hello and to ask when this baby of mine is due. I told him I’m due in May and the woman sitting with him nearly fell out of her chair in shock. “How many do you have in there!???? You’re huge!” She commented several times on how she didn’t see how I could possibly keep growing all the way to May – how much bigger could I possibly get, she wondered out loud.
Um.
Am I? I didn’t think I was. I’m still below my pre-pregnancy weight. My fundal height is measuring exactly on target. The baby is growing exactly on the curve, and I have an appropriate amount of amniotic fluid. It wasn’t like this woman was rail-thin, either. She easily weighed twice what I weigh. So what’s the deal?
I mean, yes, I’m definitely showing. I’m definitely showing even more than I was when I was growing three entire humans. But… I don’t look like I’m about to pop.
And anyway, even if I am a huge hippopotamus right now, what on earth do you say to a comment like that??
ChezPerky 
hmmm. tell them to eff off? the ONLY thing people should be allowed to say about how a pregnant mama looks is “you look GREAT.” in fact, that should be all people are allowed to say for at LEAST a year post-partum too!
xo
Next time, hit her!
I get the wackiest comments about the relative size of my bump also. If I’m out in public, strangers will give me that dewy eyed look and tell me I must be due soon. At work, where people know I’m having triplets, everyone tells me how tiny I am and that I can’t possibly have three babies in there. Everyone’s an amateur OB, apparently.
Some people have no tact. I agree that’s one of those things that’s just not appropriate for a stranger to say. That said I don’t know that I would have had any sort of come back for it.
No offense…but they should shut the heck up! Seriously…what nerve to doubt and question you! You were nicer than I would have been 😮
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At this moment I am ready to do my breakfast, later than having my breakfast coming
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Malgré le fait que j’aie repris une vingtaine de livres
parce que j’ai cessé de fumer il y a un peu plus de 4 ans…
je suis bien dans ma peau.
Inutile de se mentir : pour perdre du poids, il faut dépenser plus de calories que ce que nous avons consommés tout au long
de la journée.