I decided this morning that there needs to be a handbook of what not to say….especially to someone who is pregnant. I decided this right when the following senario happened:
I’m sweating my butt cheeks off on the bike doing my cardio, (because again, I couldn’t resist chocolate in the morning. What can I say, it goes well with my diet coke at 8am!), when this guy comes up to me. He’s a guy I see there often and have met through the spin class I took before I was pregnant. He’s married, has three kids…and I think works from home (or from the gym I would guess, since he’s always there.) Anyway, he comes over and first says:
#1 thing not to say to a pregnant woman: “Hey Summer! Why don’t you just get her out already! I mean aren’t you due in like two weeks?”
I so sweetly informed him that no, I still had a good 7 weeks to go.
Then he said….
#2 thing not to say to a pregnant woman: “Have you been doing something different? Because you look much better than you did last month!”
Trying to remain sweet I said, “No, not really. Maybe more cardio?”
And finally we ended on:
#3 thing not to say to a pregnant woman: “Oh ya, I get it. Because you know you’ll be (and I’m trying to remember the exact wording, but it was something to the effect of…) packing on the weight the next few weeks? Ya, well whatever you’re doing just keep doing it!”
Needless to say, I came home to chocolate.
Guys are so stupid sometimes, aren’t they? My husband’s a photographer… and when I was pregnant there were a couple of guys that asked if he was going to photograph the birth. I was creeped out that they were thinking of ANYONE photographing me in that kind of compromising position. Sheesh!
That’s when you always need to have some sort of witty retort like “I was just about to say the same to you, keep up what you’re doing those last 30 lbs will just fly off.”
Oooh, that’s a good one! I hate when good stuff comes to you after the fact!
What a….GUY! Sheesh!!!
Yikes! Lucky for him you were biking and not practicing your kickboxing!
Wow! Silly Men. Maybe he was trying to be nice, encouraging you to continue because you look good…who knows? It came out the wrong way though, right?
And what is it about guys thinking they know it all? Every woman is different… I never packed on the pounds at the end, I always lost a bit of weight {my body does that ~ no idea why, but it happened in all 7 pregnancies}.
I will stick to my original statement:
Silly Men.
i am so laughing my butt off (which is not sweating, btw)…
men can be so stupid when it comes to talking…well about, anything! ha!
you can always respond with, “your hair cllub for men isn’t doing so well…maybe you should try somethign else!”
The completely crazy thing is that Summer looks FANTASTIC!!! You can only tell she is pregnant when you see her belly from the side. Maybe that dude was just admiring your gorgeousness and looking for an excuse to talk to you.