Usually when I get a stupid question "You are having baby?" I reply with "No I'm having a purple Hippo," of course I'm having a baby what were you thinking when you said that. Then these lovely people think they are going to "guess/figure" out the gender of my child, because unlike most people I can wait till the baby gets here to find out the gender, plus I love being surprised. Not to mention I HATE HATE HATE the color pink.
Why these people feel the need to say something stupid or hurtful, is beyond me. And being the snarky type of person I usually answer in kind, mostly because someone needs to put these asshats in their place. And I am more than happy to take the job, but also I just feel the need to be mean sometimes and this is how I let it out.
My other favorite question is "How are you feeling?" a better questions would be "how are you doing?" in my opinion. Because honestly you really don't want to know about the swollen feet and hands (I haven't worn my wedding ring in months because of it), the heartburn and waking up at 0630 almost every morning because I can no longer sleep, and plethora of other random ailments pregnant women have. Plus it isn't like I have some kind of illness that requires you to ask how I am feeling, compared to someone with a chronic illness/disease.
I know that most of these people think they are being nice, but honestly its really annoying and after a while I really don't care if I hurt your feelings after you say something stupid. Because I am at the end of my rope dealing with stupidity. I have a very low tolerance for stupidity when I'm not pregnant and it goes down to ZERO tolerance when I am pregnant.
Beware of what you say to the snarky pregnant lady!
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