# "We're pregnant."
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 21, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627 "2009-10-21T16:59:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/1 "2009-10-21T16:59:45Z")
No you’re not.
I know you may have slept through high school biology, but as it turns out, only the woman gets pregnant. The man, however, sometimes gets a beer belly.
I know that sometimes people claim they use this ridiculous phraseology to indicate that pregnancy is a shared experience between the couple. That explanation neglects the fact that there are perfectly valid alternative expressions that _actually make sense_.
“We’re having a baby.” Good. “We’re expecting.” A little old-fashioned, but perfectly acceptable. “We’re pregnant.” You are a gigantic douchenozzle fartbrain.
And God fucking help you if you ever say “preggers.” I will cut that fetus out of you with a chainsaw.
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### Author:  [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/2 "2009-10-21T17:01:17Z")
Backs away slowly.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/3 "2009-10-21T17:06:49Z")
AAAGHHHHH I hate people who say this with the passion of 10,000 exploding suns, and hope that they are destroyed unto the 10th generation!!! \*
\*not really.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/4 "2009-10-21T17:07:52Z")
You had me until the last sentence.
But I hate this phrase too.
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### Author:  [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/5 "2009-10-21T17:18:11Z")
God, I hate “preggers.” HAAAAAAAAAAATE. :mad:
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### Author:  [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/6 "2009-10-21T17:23:54Z")
I couldn’t agree more with the OP. It drives me crazy when couples say, “We’re pregnant!”
My most hated name for pregnancy, though, is a toss up between preg or prego. I also detest pg. And don’t get me started on DH, DD and DS. Reading those on message boards makes me want to poke my eyes out.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/7 "2009-10-21T17:25:23Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#):
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> And don’t get me started on DH.
I hate the designated hitter, too. Ten-man sissyball ain’t baseball.
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### Author:  [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/8 "2009-10-21T17:42:48Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> AAAGHHHHH I hate people who say this with the passion of 10,000 exploding suns, and hope that they are destroyed unto the 10th generation!!! \*
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> \*not really.
I hate you!
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/9 "2009-10-21T17:49:39Z")
I once knew this man who was a farmer. Part of his income came from an apple orchard that he had. Anyway, this man was raised during the Great Depression and what he would do with the apples that he kept for himself to eat is that he would always start with the apples that were starting to get mushy. This was because you just don’t waste food. Ever.
The sad thing though is that by the time he got to the “good” apples they were starting to turn mushy and bad. So this man lived his whole life without ever having tasted a crisp, delicious apple.
Anyway, that’s what I think of this OP.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/10 "2009-10-21T17:52:00Z")
^You think the poster should make cider?
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/11 "2009-10-21T17:54:57Z")
I’m not completely against the sentiment behind the expression, it’s just the people who use it… you can basically hear the annoying whine in their united voices. ‘We’re pregnaaant.’
I’d love to hear from women, though, who have been pregnant and said this along with their husband, or supported him saying it. Did he get an okay beforehand? I feel like, if I were vomiting all day and sitting on a hemorrhoid cushion and watching wistfully while people around me drank, and my guy said ‘We’re pregnant,’ well, it wouldn’t get a pass. But then I’m kind of an asshole, and I don’t imagine the hormones would help.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/12 "2009-10-21T17:57:41Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> ^You think the poster should make cider?
She stuck her finger in my martini, I put mine in cider.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/13 "2009-10-21T18:00:28Z")
Couldn’t this have gone in the minor pitting thread, because honestly…
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/14 "2009-10-21T18:01:10Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> She stuck her finger in my martini, I put mine in cider.
Ba Dum Cha! 😛
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### Author:  [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/15 "2009-10-21T18:07:36Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> She stuck her finger in my martini, I put mine in cider.
Was this at the bar with liqueur in the front and poker in the rear?
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/16 "2009-10-21T18:07:58Z")
“To get cider from apples of quality, turn crank down.”
_–Friedrich Mohs_
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### Author:  [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/17 "2009-10-21T18:13:53Z")
[Steve Martin]
No, _we’re_ not going to calm down, because \*you’re \*not excited. It takes _two_ people for a \*we \*to calm down, now, doesn’t it?!
[/Steve Martin]
Goes double for “we’re pregnant.”
Not a fan of preggers or preggo either, unless used in an ironic or mocking manner.
> [@](#):
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> And don’t get me started on DH, DD and DS. Reading those on message boards makes me want to poke my eyes out.
Please explain what these are, so that I can be annoyed by them as well.
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### Author:  [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/18 "2009-10-21T18:17:10Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> She stuck her finger in my martini, I put mine in cider.
Was it a refreshing Dickens’ Cider?
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### Author:  [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/19 "2009-10-21T18:20:24Z")
> [@Orange\_Skinner](#):
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> Please explain what these are, so that I can be annoyed by them as well.
They’re abbreviations for dear husband, dear son, dear daughter and extremely prevalent on any parenting/pregnancy message board. They make me want to throttle the posters who use them because they sound so…adorable and contrived. Ick.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-pregnant/514627/20 "2009-10-21T18:21:19Z")
When a guy tells me his wife is pregnant, my universal response is, “Cool. Any idea who the father might be?”.
And hey, **gonzomax** , I am soooo gonna steal that cider joke. I have friends with an apple farm.
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