Anyone else hate hearing about other normal pregnancies?

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Anyone else hate hearing about other normal pregnancies?

Postby Rubygirl8808 » Oct 11, 2006 5:34 pm

Call me crazy, but I cannot stand watching or hearing all those cliched pickles and icecream prego moments. I was dying for those moments! All the jokes about a pregnant woman sending her poor haggard husband out into the night for her fried chicken craving at 3am etc make me want to cry! Whenever a movie or TV show has a storyline about a pregnant woman there is always that brief yakking and then suddenly like magic-she is having cravings for peanut butter and hotdogs. It's not fair!
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Postby krdoty » Oct 11, 2006 5:46 pm

Peanut butter! That's the only food I've craved this entire pregnancy and I can't have it! :cry:

No, you're not the only one. I watch Birth Day and the like so I can heckle the whiny prima donnas. Oh, you had a little bit of morning sickness? Your feet hurt? Wah!!! My husband thinks I'm crazy. I always feel better after a good heckling session though.
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Postby Rubygirl8808 » Oct 11, 2006 5:52 pm

I am totally obsessed with these types of shows-always looking-hoping for an HG mention. The best was this one where the poor little prego talked about how ill she was untill the 14th week and it just magically disappeared! Then she was eating everything and finally gaining weight-now she is worried that she had gained too much and it will be hard to take off after the birth! I would have gladly blown up to ORCA WHALE proportions if it meant I could actually eat.
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Postby jadeinoz » Oct 11, 2006 10:18 pm

I hate it too! Ive told many people that this is our last pregnancy, and they say that Ill change my mind in 6 months or so. I then go on to tell them about my severe morning sickness, and I always get the 'oh I had that too - couldnt eat chicken for the first 6 weeks of pregnancy' or something as bizarre as that!! And then they always give you, oh well, at least the baby is healthy. :evil: :evil:
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Postby DebbieS » Oct 12, 2006 12:04 am

I really don't like to hear about people's normal pregnancies. I have close friends who met up with us at a train museum after giving birth THAT DAY (baby in tow). Naturally it was a home birth. To me (although it probably wasn't their intention) it felt like they were flaunting how easy the pregnancy & birth had been.
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Postby IslandDreamer » Oct 12, 2006 12:09 am

I actually reflexively look for the PICC, shunt, or pill box when I hear a pg announcment. :lol:
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Postby HelenA » Oct 12, 2006 3:25 am

Kendra - I heckle the tv too!! :lol: I watch Birth Day and Home birth diaries (well did before I turned into the tasmanian devil!!) and I was always shouting at the tv..lol

And yes, I hate all the cliche's too, people would ask me if I have any strange cravings, I would say "Yes, to be able to eat" :roll:
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Postby deb » Oct 12, 2006 5:19 am

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-- people would ask me if I have any strange cravings, I would say "Yes, to be able to eat" --

hehe. that's a pretty good one, will have to use it next pregnancy. i HATED the fact that i craved nothing because my doc was always going on about eating whatever i craved. i was so weak by then that his suggestion simply confused me as it didn't match up with how i was feeling.

i ate *FOODMENT pancakes END FOODMENT* for a month or two as it was all that stayed down. later i once had to explain to a friend of my husbands why i couldn't stand eating them anymore. she said 'oh, how funny, i've never heard of anyone actually having such strong cravings during pregnancy'. hmm, well no, it wasn't a craving, i was trying to survive..

Debbie, my SIL is the kind the bounces up right after a pregnancy and birth. -start the laundry, hop into hospital, have baby within two hours, come home, hang up laundry- . very annoying for myself and my other SIL, but what can you do. she obviously feels fine.
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Postby Mikey&Bree'sMama(src) » Oct 12, 2006 11:24 am

The "normal preggo" moms at the OBs office where the ones I couldn't stand the most...during my first pregnancy, I hated it every time I had to go to the OBs first for check and ketone dip before they'd send me over to the hospital for IVs...is it not enough to tell a doctor or nurse that you've thrown up nothing but bile 8 times in the last 6 hours?!? But no, there I'd have to sit, watching the serene, "normal" moms reading a magazine or knitting baby booties, while I'm hunched over in a chair throwing up bile into a plastic bag.
And some sweet little mommy, 8 months preggo with two little ones in tow would ask me something like ****FOODMENT**** "Would you like me to go get you a ginger ale?" or "When I had morning sickness, I just made sure to eat a handful of Cheerios before I got out of bed." ****END FOODMENT**** NO! I want you to have some idea what it's like to lie awake all night, afraid you're going to die and leave your new husband with a baby with birth defects, because you haven't kept **anything** down in 8 weeks!!!

Sigh. It feels so good to vent.
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Postby zarabee » Oct 12, 2006 11:24 am

I am still quite new to this forum so bear with me :oops:

I have a friend who got pregnant about 6 months after I did. She heard my severe morning sickness stories, or atleast some of them. Then she got pregnant and it turned out that she is just not that 'sick type' , she didn't throw up once, she didn't even feel sick. From that point I've always felt that from what she said that she thinks of me as somebody who's constantly whining and complaining, while it's nothing really. It made and still makes me feel awful. People just don't understand what it means to be so sick like this. Everybody thinks that I am just whining and nobody really takes me seriously. It makes me feel so alone. None of my friends been through this type of sickness, one of them was miserable but she wasn't sick for the whole time and she didn't puke as much either. I feel so isolated because everybody thinks that I am just lazy and I want to get extra caring - or even worse, everybody tries to talk into our lives now, thinking that surely I have some emotional problem or hardship in my private life, and they need to solve that, because that's what makes me sick. Grr! I have no problems, I live in a very happy marriage, and the only thing that is my problem is that I am house bound and nobody cares nor understands, I am by myself all day with a 5 months old and I need to take care of her, and I can't even leave our house's upstairs because everything smells terrible on the first floor (there's the kitchen, but it makes all the livign room, etc. terribly smelly, and nobody else can feel it.)

Ok sorry for venting I just hate it so much when people think that it's me who can't put up with such little things in this life like a little bit of nausea..they think they're strong but they've never experienced sickness like this...arghhh..

Sorry for vent..
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Postby Starfoot » Oct 12, 2006 1:00 pm

I read or saw somewhere that Britney Spears was "so tired of being pregnant" because she had two pg's back-to-back. But the only saving grace was that every night at 3 am she got to melt *foodment* a Hershey's chocolate bar */foodment* in the microwave and spoon it up. I just about died at the thought.

When I watch the baby shows what blows my mind the most is not even the food cravings but the "I'm so emotional and depressed" ladies. And how their husbands "just don't understand and are SO not suppportive." Now, I know I'm not one to judge, but from what those programs show, becoming hormonal and bursting into tears one afternoon because the dog messed up your clean kitchen does NOT mean you're emotionally "out of control", and if your husband only went on 15 shopping trips with you to Babys R Us and refuses to go on trip #16, does NOT mean he is not supportive.

Being borderline suicidal, totally isolated from the normal world, completely dependent on others, broke due to HG, taking various meds that affect your mental state, wondering if you'll ever be able to bond with your baby, etc., now THAT might be grounds for claiming mental anguish. And how about those gals whose husbands totally don't get HG and cheat on / criticize / leave for dead / etc. their wives or partnes, because she "can't be there for him" while she is sick? THAT is a problem. Getting in a tiff with your guy because he doesn't care to discuss nursey wallpaper options for hours on end isn't the end of the world.

Maybe I'm turning into one of those cynical, bitter people who are like, "well, if you didn't walk twelve miles to school in the snow barefoot, while carrying a bag of coal for the stove, then you have nothing to complain about!" people. Eek...
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Postby Mikey&Bree'sMama(src) » Oct 12, 2006 1:18 pm

Don't even get me started about Britney Spears! When I was preg. with my son, who was born in September, she announced her preg. about a month later with a reported due date in October. And then what does she go and do? She had an elective c-section in early September--a full month before her due date! The only thing I can figure is she saw signs of her first stretch mark and didn't want to lose the chance to pose for Playboy some day!!
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