https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:11:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant/page/2#post-2796049 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:25:22 +0000 csross217 2796049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we told my in-laws that I was pregnant, my FIL (who is super inappropriate and has no boundaries) took DH aside and said, "So, did you guys just stop using condoms?" Like, WTF??!?! So disgusting. Then he proceeded to try to figure out the exact date that DD was conceived.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant/page/2#post-2795950 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:15:44 +0000 ElbieKay 2795950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>During my pregnancy with my son, my dad asked me how much weight I had gained. I shut that down fast.</p> <p>We told my husband's cousin about our twin pregnancy a few weeks ago and he asked me if I was ever going to have sex with my husband again. Ew. Wth? He meant it as a joke. I did not really find it funny. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant/page/2#post-2795823 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:06:20 +0000 DesertDreams88 2795823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My MIL has asked me twice how much weight I've gained. </p> <p>Also, last time, a bunch of people asked about dilation, which I thought was totally weird. Now I wouldn't think it's too weird to ask a close female friend, but it was coworkers at the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant/page/2#post-2795808 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:28:42 +0000 MaryM 2795808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not a question...but at our baby shower last weekend, MIL hinted at a second baby on the way. </p> <p>DH's siblings aren't married or trying to have kids... We both looked at each other like, what the hell?? Let us have this one and enjoy it! Especially after repeat loss and IF... give a couple a break! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant/page/2#post-2795793 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:54:20 +0000 crazydoglady 2795793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>"Do you get to pick if the baby has an innie or outie belly button?"</p> <p>I am a teacher, though. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant/page/2#post-2795774 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:37:56 +0000 CC Mommy 2795774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cake2017: I totally agree!! People keep making comments about my size lately (Due in March) Last night my friend's husband said "Wow, you look like you're ready to pop." I'm thinking, yeah, ready to pop you. </p> <p>Then a co-worker said "wow, it must be a big baby, you are getting so big!" </p> <p>Seriously, people?? What on Earth?? I do not know how big my baby is and I am fully aware that I'm big every time I get dressed in the morning and find another item of clothing that doesn't fit--sheesh! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant/page/2#post-2791396 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:42:55 +0000 SweetCaroline 2791396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A friend asked me if it was "on purpose" or an accident. Or maybe she asked if we were trying. Either way, I was taken aback and not expecting to answer that question (we had totally been trying...). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant/page/2#post-2791346 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:13:57 +0000 PawPrints 2791346@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Weirdest thing anybody has said to me this pregnancy: poked her finger into my boob and said "Oh no, it's big!!"</p> <p>.... Yes that was my 2.5-year-old, but still. Damn. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant/page/2#post-2791112 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:10:17 +0000 cake2017 2791112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>“Wow” are you carrying twins”...? </p> <p>It doesn’t bother me but I wouldn’t ask that question. </p> <p>Also, “did you plan and when are you planning to have your next”?- that’s always been a weird question to me. It’s like you’re asking about my sex life...(maybe that’s just me)!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2791110 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:55:39 +0000 WinterBee 2791110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tinyperson: LOL I just wrote something very similar. Some people are so strange! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2791108 Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:53:15 +0000 WinterBee 2791108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CC Mommy: When I was pregnant with my first my best friend was 6 weeks ahead of me.<br /> One time we were out for lunch and this guy just randomly walked up to us and asked if we planned it that way... like a pregnancy pact? LOL. That was pretty funny. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2791058 Sat, 09 Dec 2017 12:18:23 +0000 MsBAM 2791058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same, was it planned? I find that incredibly rude to ask. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2789444 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:57:20 +0000 CC Mommy 2789444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>These are hilarious--in the sense that I can't believe the things some people say. </p> <p>I have a new one, after Thanksgiving break one of my students came up to me and asked very sweetly, "You're getting bigger aren't you?" but, it was totally meant as an endearing comment. I just couldn't help but laugh to myself and wonder why people say things to pregnant women they would never dream of saying to others, lol.</p> <p>@Pumuckl: That has to be by far the most hilarious comment :)<br /> It's right up there with @TINYPERSON pregnancy pact inquiry :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785454 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:02:05 +0000 Pumuckl 2785454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The weirdest question I got last year when pregnant with our twins was: Did you plan having twins?<br /> How in the world do you plan a spontaneous twin pregnancy? (Oh and by the way: who’s crazy enough to “plan” a twin pregnancy when you have a 3 &amp; 1 year old) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785401 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:52:11 +0000 newlypregnantlady 2785401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of my husband’s coworkers (a woman in her 60s with two teenaged children), would ask about my cervical mucus and if I had lost my mucus plug and asked if I tore after my delivery, if I was dilated, etc.. I was NOT close to this woman and it was very weird. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785396 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:46:22 +0000 catlady 2785396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think somebody did ask if it was planned for my last pregnancy. Very odd, but I just answered yes, and moved on. </p> <p>Not during pregnancy, but I remember LO1's daycare teacher remarking that her birthday was the most common birthday and that it was "because New Year's Eve!". Umm, no, that would have meant she was 2.5 weeks late, but ok. (In her defense, I think Sept birthdays, i.e. holidays and NYE conceptions, really are the most common, but my girl was born in October). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785366 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:35:17 +0000 karenbme 2785366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm still in the first trimester and haven't told many people yet, but immediately when DH told my MIL she got stars in her eyes and said, "What if it's twins?" I was so not ready to think about that at 6 weeks pregnant, and responded after an awkward pause, "At least we'd know we're done having kids." My FIL on the other hand told me that DH had just held too many babies and that's why I got pregnant, not sure how the two relate. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785267 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 07:58:15 +0000 tinyperson 2785267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A friend of mine at church and I were pregnant at about the same time (her baby was born 8 days before mine), and someone at church asked if we planned it :shocked: Yeah, the four of us sat down and figured out when to do the deed so we could be pregnant at the same time...awkward. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785261 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 07:20:52 +0000 HappyBaker 2785261@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I announced at work a girl in my group did the math and was said in front of everyone, "Oh you must have conceived in July huh? Did you go on vacation somewhere?" The rest of my group is 40-50 year old mean and it was the most awkward moment ever! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785260 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 07:13:59 +0000 Anya 2785260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband's grandmother asked when the baby was conceived. 😂 WHY THOUGH! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785258 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 06:52:14 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2785258@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The nosiest question was how did my husband feel about me pregnant? He was super excited, but if he wasn’t I wouldn’t share with strangers that he was upset or bummed to be father. </p> <p>The weirdest one was if I was going to return to work? Who was going to watch the baby? I chalked this one up over time to speaking with men &amp; women that maybe did not contribute financially equally or close to equal to the household and being in an area where somehow there’s always a relative to watch your kid (preference/ financial?). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785248 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 00:58:12 +0000 bees_knees 2785248@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With every pregnancy, I’ve gotten the “was it planned” 🙄 </p> <p>During my first pregnancy while I was still WOH, a young male coworker asked me “how many lbs have you gained?” I told him he’d be smart to never ask that to another pregnant woman (or human in general) ever again. </p> <p>Currently pregnant with our third boy, and getting super annoyed by people’s “sympathy” when they find out it’s a boy. Or comments like “have to try once more for a girl then!” Ummmm. I’ll finish baking this one first and go from there. Thanks though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785223 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:08:10 +0000 wrkbrk 2785223@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CC Mommy: I️ got a lot of, will you have another? Idk, this is my first?? Chill out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785220 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:07:24 +0000 wrkbrk 2785220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@muffinsmuffins: Yes us too. We got a lot of well, who is the dad? Erm no Dad ... we have an anonymous donor .... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785216 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:42:15 +0000 muffinsmuffins 2785216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot of questions about our donor sperm. We are a two mom family so I kind of get it because a lot of our friends or family were genuinely curious how we got pregnant. I had no issue saying we did Ivf but questions about how much it cost and details about the donor that were very personal (what does he look like, where does he live, etc) were a bit weird. Usually just saying that's our sons decision whether he shares that info as he gets older shuts people up quickly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785195 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:40:32 +0000 annem1990 2785195@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not a question per say...<br /> We were Team Green. At about 8 months, an old family friend saw MIL at the grocery and said she heard about our pregnancy. She asked MIL, "it's a girl, right?" Obviously she would have no way of knowing...she probably just mixed us up with someone else.<br /> Well MIL was convinced that we knew the gender and didn't tell her. Like we would tell some random friend no one's talked to in 10 years over our immediate family... She would constantly ask me if we knew and were keeping it a secret. I don't know how many times I said NO!!!!<br /> We ended up having a boy, so I'm glad she must at least accept we weren't lying!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785177 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:18:55 +0000 Mrs. D 2785177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't really remember any weird questions last time... I'll have to keep a diary this time so I remember, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785169 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:01:47 +0000 Eko 2785169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In my office there were 5 people that were expecting with due dates within 6 weeks of each other. We all happened to tell HR around the same time. I was one of the last and my HR asked if there was some event that happened we all got knocked up at the same time. Ummm weird and no. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785157 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:48:14 +0000 MamaB 2785157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I told my parents that I was pregnant with LO2, this is the first things they said to me...</p> <p>Mom, “Are you going to see a midwife or a REAL doctor this time?” (Umm- I’m low risk! A midwife is a trained medical professional more than capable of handling my pregnancy!)</p> <p>Dad, “Are you planning to request an episiotomy this time?” (Apparently, it has stuck in his mind that I walked funny after LO1 was born. I explained that we never spoke about my degree of tearing, episiotomies aren’t standard practice anymore, and he does not need to worry about the state of my perineum- CREEPO!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-weirdest-question-anyone-has-asked-you-since-you-became-pregnant#post-2785155 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:38:11 +0000 nwm 2785155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: @Mae: omg we have the same thing where we were away right before we came back and conceived LO1, several of my awkward older relatives were like oooh la la a french baby! and i'm like, you're bad at math and also ewwww i don't want to talk about this with you long enough to correct you! we're now very early days with LO2 and just got back from a trip to germany/austria and i just KNOW i'm going to hear the same stupid jokes about oktoberfest.</p> <p>also several people who work for a client of mine asked me about how much weight i had gained, which is bad enough when a close family member asks you about it. </p>