fit to burst !!!! rant !!

[emmi26]

i went in the bookshop in town as i got to the till i realised the man behind the till was staring at me and i mean the kind of starring where they dont even look away when you look up. so i said yes? he said you look fit to burst how much longer have you got!! i passed him the book i was buying and ignored him as he passed it me back he almost dropped my change on the floor as he was stil staring then he said again you look fit to burst. well that was it !!
i said im not answering you because i find you rude you clearly know nothing about babies or pregnant women and my baby has got nothing to do with you !!
im not going in their again my mum was laughing apparently her friend was in the other week who has a 1 month old baby she was crying and he said does she need feeding are you breast feeding her ? mums friend threw the book at him and walked out !!
hes seriously got a problem one day someone will lamp him one !!

 

[MrsNovBaby]

Rude man!

 

[cdj1]

I wonder if he has tourettes or autism? They often say things without really being able to help it x

 

[Pixxie]

idiot man!

 

[jollygood000]

I would be totally annoyed as well, he probably meant no harm though x

 

[Phinners]

He's probably quite socially awkard around women in general let alone preggy ones. I bet he was mesmorised by your bump really but didnt quite know how to express himself. Poor bugger lol

And with him asking the other lady if her baby needed feeding and if she was BFing, he was probably going to say 'feel free to use our office' had he not got a book lobbed at him.

I think maybe there were slight over reactions.

 

[lillybells]

I think some people find it genuinly facsinating, and as annoying as it is being stared at by everyone like you have 2 heads, most the time they don't mean to offend!

x

 

[aurora]

Fetishhhh lol

 

[LilDreamy]

I personally don't have an issue with people commenting on my pregnancy and how big I am.

Don't take it personally.
Pregnancy is a very beautiful thing.
And men and women alike are very intrigued by it all.

It's not like they're calling you a big ol fatty. You have your excuse for being so big. Lol.
It's more or less them speaking out of amazement.

 

[Cookie1979]

Sounds like abit of a weirdo.

I went to town today on my lunchbreak and person after person blatantly was staring at my belly, and I'm not even that big yet, I said to my sister is it my imagination or are alot of people staring, she said yep cos you've got a huge belly...its not huge, its big, but not huge!

 

[barrowland]

iv only just started looking pregnant instead of fat and i swear the amount of people who stare is rediculas... right now i think they are trying to figure out if im fat or not but its rediculas and makes me very paranoid and that man might have just been awkward and the breast feeding thing he might have actually meant to offer the office or something but went about it the wrong way lol some people dont know how to word things properly bless them

 

[MrsJ08]

sorry I know it's not funny when it happens to you (I've had my fair share of rants on this subject) but I thought your reaction was brilliant!

People just forget how big a bump get's in the last trimester and I think a lot of men are fascinated by pregnancy but unless their partner has been through it have absolutely no etiquette on the matter. I must admit I find the staring very annoying and usually just give people withering looks in return. I went to have a pedicure last Saturday at the salon where my DH has his hair cut - he had booked it as a surprise. As we walked through the door his hairdresser (who is as camp as Christmas) said "Oh my word, you are very pregnant aren't you" I just said "Um, yes that's what happens when your baby is due in less than two weeks". I did forgive him later though, when he decided to dry my newly painted toe-nails with his hairdryer for me, so I didn't have to sit around waiting.

I have to admit that before being pregnant myself I'm sure I have made some classic faux pas like telling someone their bump is big. I honestly don't think that until you have been through it you understand how sensitive pregnancy makes you.

My step-sister was telling me the other day that when she went out with her newborn (she was born in December) she used to have old ladies coming up to her telling her the baby wasn't wearing enough layers, or grabbing at the babies hands to check if they were cold! This would be in a shop where the baby had literally been transferred from the car to it's buggy and was now indoors. If someone did that to me or a stranger started man-handling my baby I think I would probably lose my rag completely!

x

 

[Thegirl]

Fetishhhh lol

Exactly what I was thinking!