“Has she not made her appearance yet?”
“I bet your fed up”
“Your so big”
“Any news”
“Felt any twinges?”
No.
No.
No.
No.
No!
Yes, I am still pregnant. Of course she hasn’t made an appearance yet. Of course I’m fed up that I haven’t gone into labor yet. Thanks, I’ve always wanted to look really big and people feeling the need to tell me. No news, do you think I’d be standing here talking to you still pregnant if there was? TWINGES?! If you call severe SPD which cripples me in my sleep making it impossible to get out of bed for a wee then yes. But labor pains? Again, I wouldn’t be standing here fake smiling through your persistent, repetitive and predictable questions.
Why is it that a stranger in the street asking you these types of questions then feels the need or thinks they possess the right to grope your belly pushing and prodding followed by their opinion on weight, gender and birth date?! It drives me insane! Everyone who has ever had a baby (even if it was over 50 years ago) thinks they are an expert on pregnancy and labor.
I am slightly upset and emotional at the moment. Every woman surely is once their due date comes and goes. But I’m perfectly happy to carry on my everyday business waiting until my baby wants to arrive.
What I can’t stand is the world and its wife telling me what I should do to make her come. I’ve tried all the common ones to ‘home induce’, which might I add is a load of bollocks. Ladies out there don’t put yourself through it all. It just made me exhausted, deflated and hurt! Sex for me is uncomfortable at the moment, walking makes my SPD flare up and raspberry leaf tea makes me gag. Why do us women feel the need to be put under pressure by society to get YOUR OWN baby out by everyone else’s schedule.
I know it will only be a maximum of 1 and a half weeks before I am induced and that is not long so in the mean time I’m going to chill out, shut the curtains, turn the phone off and wait for my little bumble bee to come.
Sorry for the rant! Hormones must be everywhere….
Love to you all
Mummy Bee
Young Mummy Bee 