https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:06:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately/page/2#post-1448270 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:31:49 +0000 jedeve 1448270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>These aren't recent but my three worst ever:</p> <p>My mom when I was 5 months pregnant: "you're going to look like that [with a belly] whenever you eat for the rest of your life."</p> <p>Old man at gym pool when I was working out "if you stand up and turn around I can tell you what you are having." I refused but left a little later. He then told my husband "girl because her hips are wide like a filly's."</p> <p>MIL, when I had already gained 30 some pounds by 8 months "I never gained more than 24lbs with any of mine." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately/page/2#post-1448210 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:14:24 +0000 artsyfartsy 1448210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Anything my father in law says. LO is 4 days old and he keeps throwing an "I know everything about babies you have no idea" attitude at me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately/page/2#post-1448187 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:04:33 +0000 meganmp 1448187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I ALWAYS get the "When are you having number 3?" comment. I resorted to responding with, "When you give us the $25,000 we need to conceive them!" </p> <p>Shuts 'em up right away, and I don't care how uncomfortable it makes them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately/page/2#post-1448155 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:55:14 +0000 Boheme 1448155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>"Oh, you just wait! You'll want another one!" or "Don't you think you're depriving him by not giving him a sibling?" or "Its so selfish to have only one."<br /> Uhh...nope. Pretty firmly in the one and done camp. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately/page/2#post-1448132 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:49:06 +0000 LovelyPlum 1448132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LuLu Mom: ???? who SAYS that? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1448128 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:48:04 +0000 LovelyPlum 1448128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're TG, and the secretaries at my office were trying to decide if I'm having a boy or a girl. They were looking at my belly, etc, and one of them said, "let me look at your backside." Um, I mean, I turned around almost without thinking, but inside I was mortified. How can you tell what I'm having from looking at my butt??? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1447992 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:03:28 +0000 nana87 1447992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@septca: baby hasn't even been born yet and I'm already feeling like there are things we just shouldn't even bother telling mil! </p> <p>@Bookish: @wonderstruck: haha, seriously! she's nutso if she thinks her one experience (sil was a planned c-section so that's different), which she probably doesn't remember, has anything to do with the way all labors play out.</p> <p>In the same conversation, we also were saying how the birth center in our hospital won't admit me until I'm at least 5 or 6 cm dilated, and she was like "I don't care what they say, go to the hospital as soon as your water breaks." No! They'll just send us home! I'd rather labor at home where I'm comfy than going back and forth between the hospital multiple times. Crazy lady... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1447973 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:55:24 +0000 wonderstruck 1447973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: Damn it, I knew I was forgetting something last time! I forgot to tell my body I didn't want a 27 hour labor, DUH!! Silly me. I guess I should have also told my son that his heart rate was NOT dropping and I was NOT having a c-section. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1447950 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:44:35 +0000 Bookish 1447950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: bahahaha wow. Yeah, I'm sure that during my 18hr labor I just wasn't concentrating hard enough. That's hysterical. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1447932 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:37:44 +0000 septca 1447932@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: Oh, I don't even listen to my MIL anymore. She tells me constantly (even knowing my health issues and our TTC struggles) how she "planned her children to the minute." </p> <p>She also loves to say things like, "well, I would have *never* allowed my children to do [whatever DD is currently doing]." Oddly, she seems to think I am a good mom. ??? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1447875 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:20:20 +0000 nana87 1447875@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dh and I took a childbirth class this weekend and saw his parents right after, so his mom was asking us about it...She was shocked when we were talking about how long labor can last, and she said "all you have to do is visualize how you want your birth. With dh, I went into labor around 11pm and said to myself 'this is happening now,' and then gave birth the next morning! It's all mental!" UMM YEA, REALLY?? All the women who have long labors just aren't thinking about it hard enough? Give me a break! Also, I'm SURE she remembers everything perfectly about giving birth 32 years ago...The worst thing is she repeated that nonsense the next day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1447859 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:13:44 +0000 psw27 1447859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>After telling friends we were pregnant, one of DH's friends was all like "that's crazy" (Ummm the word is CONGRATULATIONS), basically grumbling about how he is "so not ready for that" and how "people with kids never travel or go anywhere for like years" and a bunch of other BS. (Sidenote: he never travels now so I wanted to tell him to stuff it....) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1447822 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:03:04 +0000 loveisstrange 1447822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@char54: Didn't you know that you're poisoning your child? *eye roll*</p> <p>It's just been the "you're next!" BS for like the last year because every. single. person. I am friends with here is either pregnant, has a newborn or is TTC. Yeah... no. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1447796 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:55:34 +0000 stargal 1447796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh i've gotten a lot of comments lately.</p> <p>"dang girl, you got big fast."</p> <p>"Wow i think your about as big as me and im 27 weeks along!" I'M FOURTEEN WEEKS!!!!!!!!</p> <p>hahaha its true though, i do get big during pregnancy but its not like im obvious to it!!!! so glad i have people pointing it out to me though :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1446084 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:47:47 +0000 LuLu Mom 1446084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This weekend we had a mom's night out, and we ended up running into some guys we knew from college. One of the guys (who was always a jerk) said "I'm glad you aren't skinny anymore, you looked gross." Ummm....so I'm fat now...thanks A**hole! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1446041 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:37:04 +0000 Charm54 1446041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>"Is that ..... Formula???....."</p> <p> :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1446017 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:32:29 +0000 Arden 1446017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My great aunt told me that if I really cared about my daughters health, I would only buy her 100% organic food from the most expensive store in the area, regardless of cost.</p> <p>I told her she was welcome to cover the additional cost out of her own damn pocket.</p> <p>(Note: I feed my child the BEST that I can possibly afford, and very healthfully and well balanced.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445831 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:38:06 +0000 MsLipGloss 1445831@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cascademom: @littlek: I think what makes it even more irritating is that moms rarely, if ever, *opt out* . . . that combined with the lack of "I realize it's my own doing but would you mind picking up my dry cleaning today?" that would have spiked my BP in a hurry! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445819 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:33:27 +0000 littlek 1445819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cascademom: I'm not annoyed at him for not doing things I'm more annoyed he pretty much commanded me to pick up his dry cleaning. It was not really a question the way he asked it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445811 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:30:59 +0000 MsLipGloss 1445811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lilteacherbee: That's such BS. It just is. It's so easy to say *well I thought so!* AFTER someone tells you they are pregnant. Those type comments get a big azz eye roll (BAER) from me. I just SMH and roll my eyes at such nonsense! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445810 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:30:55 +0000 cascademom 1445810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: Ugh, I've heard similar complaints recently from newlyweds and how their husbands don't do what's asked of them right away. I had to laugh and say that "it's marriage and totally normal." DH didn't start the dishwasher last night before bed. I started it this morning. I'm learning not to care too much when he doesn't do things. Maybe I'm relearning expectations with him. </p> <p>I got crap from DH when I was hungover from a party on Saturday. It's another case of not doing that again for some time. I took a nap when LO slept. I was tired and still got crap about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445808 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:30:00 +0000 KT326 1445808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lilteacherbee: Why do people think its okay to tell us these things?? They really need to shut their mouth and keep it to themselves. Ugh. Even before I got pregnant I never ever commented on another woman's body during pregnancy! And I still don't do it now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445804 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:28:01 +0000 lilteacherbee 1445804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@KT326: @coopsmama: I had a coworker who told me she could tell I was pregnant because my "hips were spreading." I was 5 WEEKS. Awesome. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445798 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:25:29 +0000 KT326 1445798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@coopsmama: @sandy: I ran into an old coworker who also told me I must be having a girl because I was so wide. Gee thanks lady. I was 8.5 months pregnant with a boy and I'm short. Where else is it supposed to go?? I really wanted to rip her face off but instead I was polite and just laughed it off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445741 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:57:15 +0000 littlek 1445741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: annoying, I'm sorry. I hate when people give TTC advice and I don't ask for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445733 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:52:44 +0000 lilteacherbee 1445733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: hate hate hateeee the "relax" comment!! It took us 13 months with LO and when it finally happened, people said "see! It happened when you relaxed!" And I was like....um, no actually it happened when we tried the hardest! (aka charting, OPKs, EOD, legs in the air, the whole shebang!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445729 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:51:18 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1445729@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: an older woman at Starbucks told me she knew I was having a girl because my hips were so big.</p> <p>I was so angry for her being so bold but also being right. </p> <p>Bitch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445724 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:49:11 +0000 bushelandapeck 1445724@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: I hate that. I picked up DH's on Friday (after forgetting on Thurs) but he easily could have done it on his way home...</p> <p>I am so tired of hearing the "when are you having another one?" type questions. My BIL in particular is such a PITA about it and I want to say "we were but we miscarried you jack ass!" but I haven't. Now that we are pregnant again, I am looking forward to telling them so they will quit assuming we aren't trying because LO is too difficult, which is their assumption. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445704 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:42:54 +0000 mrsjyw 1445704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bookish: @littlek: @Smurfette: thanks lovies :heart: ppl and their damn mouths. keep that $#it to yourselves! </p> <p>i don't even think it's uncommon for moms to be having babies 40+ in this day and age. 30!? = old?! COME ON it is 2014.</p> <p>@andrea: you know, annoying koreans. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-have-you-heard-lately#post-1445698 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:41:02 +0000 Smurfette 1445698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: That would irk me so bad. </p>