I had an interesting conversation with someone close to me a couple of weeks ago. I'll spare you the details about how we got on to this subject (it wasn't pretty), but he let me in on a real revelation in terms of his thinking:

Although a pregnant woman deserves leeway in terms of physical demands and extra sleep, she doesn't deserve any extra consideration if her attitude is less-than-ideal.

Hmmm.

Keep in mind that I am NOT the Wicked Witch of the South. In fact, throughout most of my life, my hormones have been pretty balanced. I've not been prone to unreasonable attacks of PMS that cause me to bite the heads off those around me once a month. But pregnancy hormones are a bit erratic.

This someone, who shall remain nameless, claims that I have been more demanding than usual, or that I've said things in a less-than-nice way. He believes I should at least apologize. I'm totally up for that, except I have NO IDEA when this is happening.

I think we struck a compromise when I told him to let me know when he believes that my behavior is inappropriate and I'll be happy to apologize. But honestly, I was kind of hurt that he is so clueless about how desparately miserable it can be to be at home all day nauseous, with hormones raging, dealing with a two-year-old who is at the heights of terribleness.

To his credit, he has been more understanding since this conversation occurred, although I'm not quite sure why.

Should a pregnant woman be given leeway if she's a little less polite than usual? What about a lot less polite? What do you think?