Friday, January 11, 2013

Top 5 things people say when they find out you are pregnant

5. Are you going to have the baby circumcised? (so far not my parents, but my inlaws and 2 colleagues, one of whom was disappointed cause they wanted to see a bris)

4. Some sort of weird thing about baby genitals (did you know some girls get a mini period when they are first born due to their mom's hormones, and that baby boys get erections? I do now!)

3. How they don't want to have kids (especially common among older women, they seem to repeat this 4 or 5 times and get very defensive about it. It's cool if you don't want to have kids ladies! I'm not judging you!)

2. Are you taking prenatal vitamins? (Way too common a question and one I'm starting to find incredibly patronizing)

1. Horrifying birth story of them/their partner/their kids/etc. (yesterday's involved seeing intestines during c-section and how walking into his ex's c section was like "walking into a science fiction story")

14 comments:

  1. Rally? Boy or girl is not the number one question?

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  2. I'm only 12 weeks along there's no way of knowing if it's a boy or a girl yet

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  3. Maybe I should have titled it "top 5 *weird* things people say when they find out you are pregnant" Yes congrats is #1 :)

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  4. I always like to ask "Is it a scientist or an artist?". Its never too early to pigeonhole social roles, and pigeonholing by sex is soooooo...... twentieth century.

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  5. Wait until they start touching your protuding stomach without asking.... fun times :-)

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  6. What about gratuitous advice? If it hasn't happened yet, you will soon be subjected to advice on birthing, sleeping, feeding, diapering and moving your baby, delivered with religious zeal, that will make you shake your head as you mutter "how in the world did practical advice ever get so political and controversial?"

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  7. Just found out I have a boy. Until this moment I didn't realize how negatively I felt about circumcision. But for baby's dad its non-negotiable.

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  8. top thing people say to me: So are you going to get married?

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  9. Piece of advice,
    Be ready for tons and tons of unsolicited advice about anything and everything.

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  10. I had SO many people I didn't know very well tell me the worst birth horror story they could think of when they found out I was pregnant. And academics like to tell you about the babies that were born in the middle of the semester, oh perish the thought!

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    1. hey in my school if you have a baby in the middle of the semester, you are basically screwed out of 2 and a half months of pay because we don't have a full semester's paid leave and our paycheck is "technically 9 months" but stretched over 12 months..it's a big deal! :)

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  11. wonder if that is like accountant husbands (like mine) who was in public accounting talking about not seeing his baby for the first 3 months due to busy season.

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