I got to have the opposite experience. I was actually a few days overdue, belly sticking out to there, swollen face and ankles, the whole nine yards. Decided to go antiquing with my husband and mother, figuring all the walking around would jumpstart labor, and maybe I’d find something cute for the baby’s room. I was chitchatting with a nice elderly gent who owned one of the shops when I had a really hard contraction and stopped midsentence and cringed a bit. The owner asked me “Are you okay, miss?”
I said, “…yes, just having a contraction, I’m due any minute now.”
He said, “Oh, you’re pregnant? I thought you were just really fat.”
Heres a trick I have been using for years when quoting your own age, always add a couple to it. That way people will usually respond with… ‘Oh God you look great’. If you take years away the response will go something like this… ‘oh.’!
And in their head they will be thinking ‘he/she hasn’t aged well’
Ya, you can’t win here. If you do ask, well, you know what happens. However, if you don’t ask, they’ll say “I can’t believe you think I’m just fat.”
In the medical field, all women are considered to be pregnant unless proven otherwise. I’t fun to ask obviously (?) pregnant women if they are pregnant. They think you are stupid.
As a rule, I don’t lie about my age. I don’t think I look younger or older than I am, and if anyone asks, I just tell them my real age. But I’ve often thought that if I was gonna lie, I’d do it your way. After all, I really do look like I’m about 41 (which is how old I am), and if I say “I’m 35” people are gonna think “wow. She looks like hell!” But if I said I was 47, they’d say “Oh. I’d have never thought you were that old!”
[hijack] Of course, there are other clues than my physical appearance. Some people have assumed me to be younger because I have a three-year-old, and most people with children that age are in their 20s and 30s. [/hijack]
people often mistake me for a 20 something yo because I have a 6 month old… not bad for a 37 yo huh The look on their faces when I tell them I have an 18 yo also is PRICELESS!!!
HOW insensitively RUDE :mad: I was 8 months pregnant last Christmastime and went shopping for baby items and presents at WallyWorld. One of the employees asked me if I was having triplets and when I told her I had polyhydramnios (too much fluid) she said “oh I figured you were going to say you were just fat” My hubby went postal and made such a big fuss that I just walked out (letting him rant away) :rolleyes: Talk about making someone feel good (NOT) :wally
I went to the ER when I was 18 weeks pregnant and wasn’t asked if I was pregnant even tho I was already showing AND WEARING A SHIRT THAT SAID “delivering baby in February 2003 !!”
I was having contractions and the nurse at the front desk (a HUGE house of a woman) said “oh my are you pregnant?” When my hubby said I was she said “yikes I thought you were just overweight” BITCH That is the NUMBER ONE thing you NEVER say to a pregnant woman!!!
The look on their faces when I tell them I have an 18 yo also is PRICELESS!!!