Rant: Regretting telling people the due date.

Girl I hear you , no one knows I’m pregnant unless they are on this app, close family member and do workers . I do not post and I like my life to be private because people want to be in everyone business to much and not everyone wishes success in life . If I was you I would like ignore them or respectfully tell them to wait . It’s nice to see that some people care but they need to understand everyone pregnancy journey is different and we don’t always want the acknowledgment.

I politely asked a friend to stop asking cos 'a watched pot never boils'. When I have replied I just either said 'not yet' or "I'll let you know when they are here'. You don't actually have to reply at all and could temporarily block their numbers. I'm hoping that's enough to stop the enquiries. It's lovely that people are excited but it's hard not to fixate on how long the baby takes with people demanding updates. I've also decided that it doesn't matter if people ask or not, they'll be in the wrong either way cos I'm that hormonal and on tenter hooks 😂 my mum was way more chill about this in the 80s but they didn't have mobile phones or social media then xx

I hear you!! I'm not due until 18th but one of my friends inparticular, messages EVERYDAY asking "are you still cooking?" It's annoying and I kindly said, not his due date yet, I'll let you know when things change. She has since stopped messaging me altogether 😅
It's nice that people care but, you don't need the extra stress x

Literally! A bit different but people keep asking to meet me before the baby’s here and getting annoyed when I say I can’t because I’m in pain, and if I don’t respond to people for an hour or 2 they message me like ‘you in labour’ no I’m just pregnant and absolutely knackerred, I think I might just respond to only a few and ignore the rest until baby is here now and just say after that I didn’t want to go on my phone xxx

I literally told people who asked "autumn" and got really annoyed when they insisted on a precise date as i could see this happening. I'm not due until 29th so they'll all have September in their head when statistically, first babies are born 8 days late on average, then it will be October! But I couldn't just lie to my colleagues because I had a colleague who was due 2 weeks after me and she kept telling everyone and of course they wanted to compare and see who would be first and I told them plainly babies can come 3 weeks early or 2 weeks late so it could be my baby or her baby coming first. Then she was rounding up her months wrong saying she was 6 months pregnant at 22 weeks and I just gave up 😅 I'm just going to mute anyone who bothers me and explain that this is really unhelpful because you need calm to get the oxytocin to go into labour, not pressure and stress of bombarding messages. I won't be afraid to say that it does way more harm than good and if they want to be nice they will be patient