Top 5 Rude Comments Pregnant Women Field
Posted by Laurie
Two days after I gave birth at a hospital in Manhattan, my husband and I joyfully embarked upon our ride home with our new baby boy. We videotaped our efforts to hail a cab (we decided a cab would be easier than parking our car in a garage blocks away), fumble with the car seat and buckle in our baby boy. As I tended to my boy in the back of the taxi, everything was wonderful, until I overheard the driver joke to my husband sitting in the front seat, “When she’s due? She looks like she still has a bun in the oven.” NOT FUNNY! And my husband didn’t miss a beat admonishing the driver. But, having been through nine months of pregnancy, I had already heard it all.
I don’t know of any pregnant mom who doesn’t have a story that begins with, “You won’t believe what someone said to me!” Often, I couldn’t.
1. “You look like you’re getting fat.“
My friend, who avidly reads this blog (thank you!), announced her pregnancy at work about four months in. Her boss’s response? “Oh so that explains your belly bulge. I didn’t think you were the kind of woman who would let herself go like that.”
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What really goes on behind the bedroom doors? I interviewed 12 women from around the country and found out that lies and more lies rest between those satin sheets. Let’s just say that names have been changed to protect the guilty.
