What are the least helpful things you’ve been told in pregnancy?

I can start
1) “you still have 2 months to go? But you’re massive already!”
2) “baby due September? Better push them earlier so you avoid extra year of childcare cost”
3) (to my partner upon announcing the news): “you better work more and harder get a promotion now”.

I can go on forever, thought the “you sure it’s not twins” comments were an urban legend but people are THAT stupid

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These are awful! I can’t remember being told anything unhelpful thankfully! Apart from a shop assistant in Dunelm asking me not to give birth in the shop as he wasn’t first aid trained 🤣

"you think you're tired now, just wait..." 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
Newborn tired was nothing compared to pregnancy tired 😂

My appetite gone crazy at some point and I was eating a lot, my husband told me to relax - ‘ give yourself a break, you’re eating for two now’ , my mother in law jumped on it - ‘that’s not actually true at all, she’s not eating so much cause of the baby’

Still don’t know why she even commented on that

"Was it planned?" "Yes, aunt who I never talk to, it was very fucking planned, we did IVF" 😂 like what a weird question, what are people supposed to say? "Nah we were using the pull out method" lol

How are you going to raise a girl...you aren't one (thanks mum)

Oh and it's disgraceful that 40 year olds are having babies it's child abuse (thanks dad I'm 41)

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