It seems that the latest buzz word I keep hearing is “baby bump”, referring to a pregnant woman’s stomach. I swear that not since every other word out of Nancy Grace’s mouth was “Tot Mom” have two words been so annoying to me. Anytime I read it in an article I want to jump through the monitor and strangle the author. Does this stupid phrase annoy anyone else?
Tot mom, yummy mummy, baby daddy, preggo: all make me irritable, queasy, irrational and emotional (the four horsemen of the Pregopolypse).
Baby bump: doesn’t.
I guess it’s a YMMV thing.
Yeah, not feeling the hate for baby bump.
Baby bump isn’t offensive at all plus it’s catchy. And that’s exactly what it is, a bump sticking out thanks to a baby. lol
I though the term referred to the start of the second trimester (when a pregnant woman begins to show) and to the slight enlargement of the woman’s lower belly. If she’s not showing there’s no bump, if she’s beyond the 5th month it’s more of a hill than a bump, and in any case it may be her tummy but it’s most definitely not her stomach: she’s pregnant, not a cannibal!
I hate the phrase and I hate babies even more.
I hate “we’re pregnant” and the use of “baby” without “the”, “a” or “your” (baby will need a nap), but I feel baby bump s a pretty factual description.
“Baby bump”, “reached out” and “Breaking News” (which often is neither breaking nor all that important anyway), are my current major bugaboos. Loathe 'em all.
I think it’s a little silly, but it doesn’t make me stabby.
I hate it and it does make me stabby. I don’t like most cutesy terms for pregnancy, though.
No more offensive than “lovely lady lumps”.
Dislike it mainly because of the gossip rags that use it.
I hated it until I got one of my own, then it really becomes a good descriptor. As in, “It’s hard to hug you really good because my baby bump is in the way.” or “I totally just knocked that coffee cup right off the table with my baby bump.”
The reason I hated it before was, like Megabee, because of it’s use in gossip magazines. A picture of a woman with a big arrow labelled “BUMP!” pointed at her midsection will always annoy me.
Tacky.
Good thing it’s easy to avoid media that use the term and its ilk.
Annoying and idiotic- pretty much the same as any term coined or regularly employed by the celebrity-watching press.
Ghetto.
It annoys me the way it’s used to talk about celebrities, it seems so tacky and fake-cutsy to me.
When I had one of my own, I was bumping into things all the time (in a way that would have been comic if it wasn’t so annoying), so it almost seems to sound more natural to me as a verb.
So basically what Zjestika said, I see on preview.
I don’t like it.
My bump, my bump my bump my bump, you love my baby bump, you love my baby bump
… you can look but you can’t touch it if you touch it Imma start some drama. You don’t want no drama.
I made a previous thread about it. As I stated there, it’s not a “bump.” When you hit your head you get a bump on your head. When an insect bites you, you get a bump on your skin.
That enormous swelling of your abdomen that looks like another being is taking over your body (because it is)? Yea, that’s not a bump.
I think it started in celebrity rags to try to make it seem as if these glorified movie starts don’t have huge bellies, they have a “baby bump.” Doesn’t that sound so tiny and cute?
And yes, I have been married to a pregnant woman. My beautiful daughter was the result. But let’s be realistic here.