I watched my wife. I saw the flat feet, stretchmarks, alienlike moving protuberances, morning sickness, and brain drain when the little blast furnaces sucked every calorie out of her.
I was not pregnant. She was.
At the same time, the A/C was set on fucking 65 from February all the way through til December then the kidlets were born. I froze my ASS off!
She made sure they drank formula, there was NO WAY she was going to breastfeed…If she did, then I’d be off the hook for those 2 am feedings.
Eh, the “we’re pregnant” can get annoying but let the couple just be.
However, I accept the use of the term “pregnoid” as a pejorative if the mother-to-be is terrible.
“We are pregnant.”
“Don’t be silly, men don’t get pregnant!”
“We are Borg.”
Hah; actually, whenever I hear the term “prego”, I hear a little commercial in the back of my mind for Preggo Brand Frozen Waffles.
When the Obama Youth Junior Death Panelists begin administering random abortions you’ll probably hear more men saying “You better leggo of my preggo”.
But they’ll only say it once.
If they know what’s good for them.
“We’re expecting a child.”
I doubt I will ever get into a fistfight over this, but this is extremely cut and dried. “We’re pregnant” reeks of phony new age sensitivity, not to say glory hogging on the part of the man. Pregnancy has a specific meaning. It means you’re carrying a fetus [or other term] and will give birth to a child. If it’s not inside you, you are not pregnant. You wouldn’t say “we have the flu” unless both of you have the flu, would you? Or “we can’t get pregnant because our sperm are not motile enough?”
Yes, it is, and if those were the only options you might have a point. But “My wife is pregnant” already implies you are going to be a father," and “I’m going to be a father” implies you impregnated someone, so in both cases you’ve used overly lame phrasing. And there are a million other ways to express your excitement about the event.
“We’re having a baby” is completely accurate. When the pregnancy is over, you’ll both have a child. But only one of you will have been pregnant: the one who had a baby come out of her.
I have three kids. Pregnancy is not a shared experience. My wife was the one who was pregnant every time. I always said “____ is pregnant.” “____had the baby,” etc. Never “we.” I never got any sympathetic pregnancy symptoms either. I ate fine, slept fine. I wasn’t pregnant.
I’m definately pregnant (and sick and tired of it by now). Boy From Mars is not, although he may equally be sick and tired of it by now too. Drives me crazy to hear otherwise. The other thing I hate is ‘baby’ - as in “When baby arrives… When baby needs feeding…”
Oh, and interesting to note that the Google Ad on this page I can see is for my obstetrician - what are the odds of that?
I always said “I” and not “we” cause he really didn’t do much except initialize the project. I didn’t always mind if people said"we" if it was a genuine show of joy and affection.
Now it makes me crazy due to entitlement issues with my now-ex.
I don’t mind preggers, prego, etc. I hate DH, DMIL, D-stfu.
The running joke in our family is: Pregnancy is a lot like marriage, in both cases, The guy shows up for a few minutes (give a ring, give a deposit), and a long time later, his job is to ferry the woman somewhere (the church, the hospital). In the intervening period, he’s pretty much dead weight.
Exactly!! Except that I, unlike you, have now dedicated myself to getting into fistfights over it.
I want to shriek whenever I hear somebody saying that ‘they’re’ pregnant. One of the saddest days in my life was when I heard my older brother saying this. How the mighty have fallen!
I am soooo using this one one if my fiance ever says “we’re pregnant” once we get married and start having babies.
I hate this too. When he pees every 20 minutes and has breasts that ache like nothing holy, then yes, “we” can be pregnant. Until then, it’ll just be me.
Here’s the worst thing about the “we’re pregnant” folks. They’re reproducing! Arrrrrrgh!
I kind of think it’s sweet.
Must be just about time for that baby to be coming out, isn’t it?
I’m just past 38 weeks - so theoretically any day now - but my Ob reckons we have another couple of weeks to go. Which is good, since I only finished work a week ago, and I’d love a little time to sit in cafes, go to movies and relax before Peanut shows up!
For a second I thought I was still reading the thread about comments people make to pregnant women. This definitely took the cake!
“Bump watch” and “showing her ‘bump’” is getting on my nerves. Then again, I shouldn’t be reading Us or watching E! News.
I squint at your actual anger, but still wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
When my old girlfriend indicated that not liking that phrase was indicative of trying to avoid connection and responsibility, I asked if “we” were going to have prostate trouble in later years.
Wow, that is really a retard abbreviation. I was thinking Damn Husband, Dick Hole, Dumb Husband, and in context, Divorced Husband. DS is obviously Dumb Shit.
Actually, I have a friend who put it that way when he told me about it. His wife got pregnant with kid #3, and they couldn’t afford another child, so she ended up having an abortion.
“We’re pregnant” gets under my skin too. I much prefer “We’re having a baby.” It shows mutual commitment, but doesn’t make me think the guy’s going to be walking around in an empathy belly and having crying jags.