Another Thing You Shouldn't Say to a Pregnant Woman

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Do NOT make twin jokes. Do not say anything about how she looks like she's having twins, or that she's big enough to have twins, or anything remotely like "Whoa, could you be having twins?"

Twin jokes are NOT cool! It's not funny to have someone suggest that you are too damn big to be having just one baby. I guess people think it's funny to joke about twins, as if having twins would be the most horrible thing ever (what an insult to the parents of twins, or to people who are twins themselves).

So, here's what I have to say to people who want to joke about me having twins:

"F@&$ you!"

I'm tired of being pregant.

That is all.

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manodogs's picture

What About Monkey Jokes?

Or aliens? Those are endlessly amusing to me.

- Manodogs
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Well...

As an overly pregnant woman, I reserve the right to be offended at any moment. Feel free to float any jokes past me, though, and I'll either laugh or verbally assault you. Either way it will be fun. :)

Seriously, though, I'm only this irritated in short spurts. Life/work/etc. is stressing me right now.

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Pregnant Jokes

I think it goes well beyond just the "twin jokes". For example, my husband will be doing laundry and hold up a shirt and say, "Remember when you used to fit into this?"

Thanks asshole.

Or I'll go shopping for bras and he'll say, "Do they even make them THAT big?" - which is a pretty crappy thing to say because, as any pregnant woman knows, the boobs hurt!

But the one that really pissed me off the most was when I was at Target the other day and some 13-year-old called me "fat". Am I "fat", yes. I am going to have a baby in a few months. If I wasn't big in the tummy there would be room for concern. However, to point out that I look like a beached whale, a blimp or a UFO is just plain rude. Do you think I don't already know? Do you think I enjoy looking like this? I wanted to slap that little bastard. I think I am going to add that kid to my list of people I plan to punch after delivery. Hey, "An elephant never forgets", right?

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GRRR

My husband's not too bad on the jokes, just a few here and there about how there's no room for a dog or my son or whatever to sit in the chair with me right now. My father in law made some joke about me not fitting in his newly redone Corvette, but I pointed out that I was still smaller than my husband and him, so...

What's up with that 13-year-old? I wouldn't ever call anyone fat to their face, whether I was 13 or 35. What's up with that?

How far along are you now, Realitycheck?

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preggers

my lord, are we all knocked up? LOL! come to bloggerparty if you are having fertility issues!

and yeah.....i love the comments too. i am a lot bigger this time around then with my son. mostly just boobs and belly but i look a lot more pregnant, waaaaay more than 18 weeks. my husband looked at me last night (the road to hell is paved with good intentions, we must remember) and said "wow honey, you look great but you were this big when you were 7 months pregnant with our son." thank you honey. thank you very much.

as for the 13 year old calling you fat, reality, oh my god, karma will bite her in the ass. i guarantee it. and what the hell? what is up with teens nowadays? in my wildest dreams i would never ever have made a comment like that to anyone as a kid. she needs a nice smack upside the head.

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Everybody is bigger the second time around

Looser ligaments, etc. My dr. said you do everything a least a month earlier. Show earlier, want to be done earlier...

I can attest to that. I've been ready to be done for months :)

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Well, Then...

I will limit my jokes to those involving free-range monkeys.

And maybe the occasional Sea-Monkeys one.

- Manodogs
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Ahhhh Sea Monkeys

Did you ever have any of those that lived for any length of time?

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Sea Monkeys, Now You Don't!

Actually I did! I had some I bought out of a comic book when I was a kid and they survived for a month or two before I set them outside in the sun and killed them all...

And they had already started building their little city, too!

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You fried your sea monkeys????

What a total bummer!!!!

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Technically...

I boiled them. Alive. It was a real tragedy. You should have heard their shrill screams. Of course, by the time I realized what had happened, the deed had been done.

- Manodogs
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So tragic

I bet that kept you awake nights for years...

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joking aside

Whale jokes, blimp jokes and breathing on you the wrong way are all out of line, lol. I remember those days well - wonder if that's why I stopped at one?

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I don't blame you!

My first pregnancy was pretty smooth, but this one has been one hell of a bumpy road.

Heaven help anyone who makes a whale joke in my direction. I'm small but I'm fiesty.

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