# What the hell is with pregnancy message boards?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 23, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293 "2004-11-23T16:18:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/41 "2004-11-24T15:44:12Z")
I’m just glad most of them rarely venture from those boards and then only until they get laughed at by Normals. (Normality is relative and this is a rare instance when Dopers count as Normals.) I am glad, though, to find the women in this thread nearly as grossed out as guys usually are by these topics.
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### Author:  [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/42 "2004-11-24T16:13:53Z")
mr. e and I are talking about TTC in a year or so, and I’ve been visiting pregnancy and TTC boards for info - it scares the crap out of me sometimes. Honestly, after I’ve visited one of those boards, the first thing I do is look at mr. e with fear and say “Our kids WILL learn proper spelling and grammar, right?”. He usually figures out I’m reading ‘mom’ boards and tells me to close the window.
The ones that truly make me fear for the human race are the posts where a woman says her DH doesn’t want a child or doesn’t want a third, fourth, or fifth child, and the other women encourage her to LIE and ‘forget’ her birth control. What the fuck? So your husband is being responsible and honest, and you’re going to fuck with his mind and basically cheat to get a child? I would give my husband permission to divorce me if I ever did something that low and underhanded. And my favorite refrain of all - “He’ll love it when it gets here!”.
No wonder one of the few boards I go to besides here is a level-headed board of childfree and parents (it’s a discussion board for both to see the other side).
E.
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### Author:  [@Sat\_on\_Cookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sat_on_Cookie)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/43 "2004-11-24T16:57:49Z")
> [@Elza B](#):
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> The ones that truly make me fear for the human race are the posts where a woman says her DH doesn’t want a child or doesn’t want a third, fourth, or fifth child, and the other women encourage her to LIE and ‘forget’ her birth control. What the fuck? So your husband is being responsible and honest, and you’re going to fuck with his mind and basically cheat to get a child? I would give my husband permission to divorce me if I ever did something that low and underhanded. And my favorite refrain of all - “He’ll love it when it gets here!”.
That’s one of the things that’s most bizarre about those boards. It’s like group think by idiots. It’s a combination of disbelief and disgust when 20 posters are all comforting a smoker saying “it’s so hard to quit, your baby will be ok” and then ripping the “no, you should really quit NOW” poster okay that was me a new asshole for dissenting and making the smoking pregnant person feel badly. Honestly one of those things you don’t believe until you experience it.
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### Author:  [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/44 "2004-11-24T17:33:49Z")
Wedding boards are like this too. Same underhanded “advice” and insistance on total support of everything.
Yet, I’m still addicted. :smack:
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### Author:  [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/45 "2004-11-24T18:13:15Z")
> [@IrreverentTone](#):
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> Actually, it’s Maddycynne as in “Madison” but rendered totally yuneek and kre8tiv by Mr. & Mrs. Clueless Z. McFuckwit (thank you **RickJay** ). 'Cause you know that shitty spelling makes for a unique child.
That really gets me, because it’s not like it’s pronounced any different. So many of these parents are spelling their kids’ names weird “so they won’t be one of 5 Madisons in the class.” Um, her teacher will still have to say “Maddycynne R.” or whatever, to distinguish between all the Madisons. :rolleyes:
There’s a great website that makes fun of the parenting/naming message boards. I know it’s been posted here before, but here it is again: [Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing](http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/). Enjoy!
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### Author:  [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/46 "2004-11-24T18:23:01Z")
> [@Medea's Child](#):
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> Wedding boards are like this too. Same underhanded “advice” and insistance on total support of everything.
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> Yet, I’m still addicted. :smack:
Yep. I only post on one wedding board, and am sadly still addicted two months after my wedding (I’ve met some great friends there who I need to see married off), but God forbid you give any advice that goes against the grain. I find myself becoming more and more annoyed with the posts, especially ‘etiquette’ questions, and I hope to God I wasn’t that much of a spoiled brat with my own wedding planning.
E.
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/47 "2004-11-24T18:38:30Z")
> [@Minniepurl](#):
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> Most of all the god-awful stupid mispelled stripper names that people want to name their poor innocent children-- no child deserves to be named Maddycynne, for God’s sake.
> [@IrreverentTone](#):
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> Actually, it’s Maddycynne as in “Madison” but rendered totally yuneek and kre8tiv by Mr. & Mrs. Clueless Z. McFuckwit (thank you RickJay). 'Cause you know that shitty spelling makes for a unique child.
You’re going to want to read [this](http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html).
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### Author:  [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/48 "2004-11-24T19:14:56Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#):
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> It’s because it doesn’t take any special skills to get knocked up. Almost anyone can do it, and as we know, the majority of people are idiots. So there ya go. 😃
Almost. One of the fertility short bussers here.
And if you stick around long enough, you get the fake posters, faking pregnancy, miscarriage, divorce, death …
Then the ones who go around breaking into other people’s journals and copying things around and gossiping constantly about other people … it gets messy and you have to wrench yourself away by force or get sucked in …
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### Author:  [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/49 "2004-11-24T19:31:15Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#):
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> Naaah, you’re just spoiled by the dope, we have brilliant people like **Sauron** and others to keep us straight.
Whahuh?
Flattering though that may be, I gotta say, if you’re looking to me to raise the intellectual tone of this board, be prepared for a very low tone. I’m the baritone of intellectual tone-level-raising.
Of course, that could’ve been a subtle insult, in which case I’ve just been mightily whooshed. (And if that was the case … good one!)
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/50 "2004-11-24T23:18:06Z")
> [@MinniePurl](#):
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> The whole time I was pregnant, I waited in vain for someone to ask me, “If it’s a girl, will you name her Madison?” Why? So that I could answer, “No, I was thinking Milwaukee. Or Sheboygan.”
Sheboygan is _so_ not a girl’s name! Don’t you know the legend? “She boy again?”
I’d advise against Saukville too, but for other reasons. Same for Greenbush.
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### Author:  [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/51 "2004-11-24T23:29:38Z")
> [@Sauron](#):
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> Whahuh?
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> Flattering though that may be, I gotta say, if you’re looking to me to raise the intellectual tone of this board, be prepared for a very low tone. I’m the baritone of intellectual tone-level-raising.
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> Of course, that could’ve been a subtle insult, in which case I’ve just been mightily whooshed. (And if that was the case … good one!)
Not even. I find so many of your threads, funny though the subject matter may be, to be very cleverly written. I dont’ think too many would disagree with me.
But then, maybe I’m just prejudiced, I love reading, and people who write cleverly and interestingly and make me laugh, or think are always brilliant to me.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/52 "2004-11-25T01:10:25Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#):
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> Sheboygan is _so_ not a girl’s name! Don’t you know the legend? “She boy again?”
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> I’d advise against Saukville too, but for other reasons. Same for Greenbush.
But I think **Fredonia** would be a fine name for a gal. And **Glenbeulah** could work for either gender.
OK, I’ll try to stop now.
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### Author:  [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/53 "2004-11-25T03:36:18Z")
I’m scared of all the idiots that are having children. I know pregnancy can mess with your mind, but it’s in a “where are my keys?” when you have them in your hand type of way. These women have no sense of grammar and can’t spell worth a shit. That might actually explain some of the names these kids end up having.
Another thing that scares me is the amount of teen pregnancies I see. Not just 17 year olds, but there are a large amount of 14 and 15 year olds. What are their parents teaching them?
Of course there are the fakers. I find them rather humorous. Most of them really don’t know what they are talking about. One girl claimed she had her 7 week ultrasound and the tech told her she was having a boy. Another girl (rather we suspect the same one under a different name) claimed to be 3 weeks pregnant. Not sure how she found out 7 days after she conceived.
Amazingly I’ve found one place where I like… on LiveJournal of all places. It’s the community of the month I’m due in. Sure there’s one or two idiots, but for the most part the women are able to type coherant sentences.
**Sat on Cookie** , I’m just a few months behind you with my first. It’s a boy too.
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### Author:  [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/54 "2004-11-25T09:18:38Z")
> [@ShadiRoxan](#):
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> I’m scared of all the idiots that are having children. I know pregnancy can mess with your mind, but it’s in a “where are my keys?” when you have them in your hand type of way. These women have no sense of grammar and can’t spell worth a shit. That might actually explain some of the names these kids end up having.
Those people on that baby name website scared me. You guys are all right, we’re doomed.
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### Author:  [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/55 "2004-11-25T13:20:25Z")
The pure joy that is pregnancy mesaage boards…I didn’t have the internet for the first two, but was so enlightened when I was pregnant with my son. I’m not sure how I survuved the first two pregnancies without them.
Poster 1:
So, my DH wouldn’t go get me ise creem at 3am and it was so unfare I couldn’t believe it. I mean, hear I am, carrying a life that he helpt create and he can’t even be bothered to get up and get something for that life tht he helpt create. It wasn’t liek that when I was preggers with my DS. THEN HE WOULD DO ANYTHING, probbly cuz it was a boy. Men are such pigs.
Poster 2:
Well, MY DH not only gets up WHENEVER I need anything, he also cleans the whole house and homeschools our 2 year old DD when he’s through washing my new 9 passenger SUV that we had to have with the imminent birth of our Second Coming. This is of course while working two full-time jobs as both a physicist and highly-paid Executive of a Fortune 500 Company. Our DD, who is now working on her Doctoral Thesis, just adores her Daddy and is dedicating her next Cantata to him. We already have DS-to-be vying for entrance to Prestigious Prep School for Prodigies and I do hope that the In Utero entrance interview will go well. As much as DH spends every waking moment fretting over me and our offspring, I do so worry sometimes.
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### Author:  [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/56 "2004-11-25T15:16:47Z")
I almost forgot to add the teenagers who come in asking if they could be pregnant.
i had sex three days ago and now my brests are soar and my period isn’t suppose to start for another five dayz and i m scared i mite be pragnet plz plz plz help and tell me if i m.
Or there’s the one that I saw today. I know it had to be a troll. She was saying that she didn’t want to have “sexual relations” as she put it, but her boyfriend was pressuring her. She was afraid of getting pregnant, but he told her the only time she could was while she had her period. I know the best way to deal with a troll is to ignore, but what if some other uninformed teenager reads it and thinks it’s right. I guess it’s just after being on this message board for so long I feel it is my duty to enlighten the terminally stupid.
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### Author:  [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/57 "2004-11-25T15:38:55Z")
How about Oconomowoc?
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/58 "2004-11-26T04:33:35Z")
**faithfool** only a partial **whooosh**.
I _speled_ ‘sentence’ wrong. I hate that word. 🙂
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/59 "2004-11-26T05:06:09Z")
Mr. Clueless Z. McFuckwit? Classic! I think I might have to change my username (with **RickJay’s** permission, of course.)
From **Dante’s** link:
> [@](#):
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> I once met a lady named Rodana. I think she runs a successful internet business.
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> In her spare time she destroys Tokyo.
(the Tokyo line was the comment made by the website creator.)
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### Author:  [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/60 "2004-11-26T05:50:40Z")
Childhood and parenting just sends turns people into hyper opinionated idiots. Probably because it’s all so intense.
When Mrs Princhester was about 7 months gone we went camping for a weekend with some friends. One woman (highly qualified, intelligent etc person usually, with one young child) started off like this:
“Now look, you’ll find that lots of other people will tell you stridently that you _must_ do this and you _mustn’t_ do that at childbirth, and what you _must_ do with your baby etc. My advice is: don’t listen to them. You need to do what’s right for you.”
So far, so good. But then, without a smile or trace of irony, she then went on without pause to say,
“So what you need to do is _this_ and _that_ at childbirth, and you simply _must_ do this with your baby etc.”
On and on for about 20 minutes without pause.
I eventually “rescued” Mrs Princhester from the conversation before there was a Nasty Incident, but got told off for not rescuing her earlier anyway.
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