#2 "You're Huge!"

Every woman hopes that when she becomes pregnant she will be the most beautiful pregnant woman that ever lived. There is a feeling of romance that comes with your pregnancy (before the puking starts) where you imagine your little basketball sized belly and the nudges you’ll feel when your baby rolls over. But for some of us… those dreams end far too soon.

My friend Rebecca is 5’1” tall. She’s an adorable girl but, let’s face it… during pregnancy, there are only so many places that baby can go. By the time she was in her 4th or 5th month she was already running out of room. She was no longer carrying a baby bump, but more like a baby boulder. Her clothes didn’t fit, she was having trouble breathing, she couldn’t sleep, and worst of all she had 4 more months to go!

She worked down the hall from me and every time she came out of her office I would hear someone say “Holy Cow! You are huge!” It wasn’t an excited statement either. These people were not celebrating the largeness that was her pregnant belly but rather making that comment out of pity. Imagine their faces with me if you will… their eyebrows arched down, their bottom lip jutting out into the world’s fakest pout. Yeah, that’s no fun. Rebecca being the gracious and sweet spirited woman that she is would just smile and laugh saying “I know!”

I am sitting here shaking my internet finger at anyone who has ever told a pregnant woman she looked big. Come on people, it’s not acceptable in regular society, why would it be acceptable with a woman who is juiced up on hormones? That’s like saying it to a 14 year old girl, and you wouldn’t do that would you? No. I hope you do this to a pregnant woman who cries a lot. You’ll learn.