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Issues when you are pregnant, women and pregnancy

Although it's nice to get compliments when you're pregnant, it's degrading and embarrassing when building workmen on a busy high street start shouting things like "Oi Sexy, give us a smile!" or "Come on beautiful, make my day!" - I wouldn't mind if they were good looking but they were all over 50 and fat with no hair!

When you’re pregnant, you’re whole world changes and suddenly things don’t seem as easy as they used to be. Here are a few ideas of things that could be done to help make life easier for us.

FASHION - Our fashion designers lack imagination when it comes to pregnancy fashion. The clothes I have found have been really old fashioned and frumpy.  I feel with the right clothes and shoes you can look and feel very sexy instead of fat!

SHOPPING - When you're pregnant it is not advisable to lift heavy stuff.  In one incident a Security Guard asked if I needed help.  I accepted and he then just stuck the item in my basket. Not very helpful really!  So my advice to people who work in shops, if you offer us assistance please try to make an effort, otherwise don’t bother.

QUEUING - I feel that pregnant women should have special privileges when it comes to queues. Standing on your feet all day isn’t fun at the best of times, but its much more uncomfortable when you are pregnant – trust me on that one! Here’s how I think things should be when you are pregnant:

  • No queuing for anything
  • Car parking spaces near the shops like the disabled, so we don't need to walk far with our shopping
  • Comfortable seating in restaurants & theatres
  • Have alcohol free beer in pubs; this should be more widely available anyway.
  • Special menus in restaurants for us, which are more healthy and interesting (with all the stuff we can not have taken out!).  Vegetarians are catered for, so why not cater for pregnant women?

CAR SIGNS - You've seen the 'Baby on Board' signs, well I think for pregnant women there should be a sign saying 'Pregnant Woman on Board' so that other drivers are more patient and careful.  And by the way - no jokes about just having a 'wide load' sign instead!

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8 months pregnant here, and I don't totally agree with you. Sure it sucks at the end, you are sore, tired, wobbly, swollen feet, etc. etc., but for christ sake you are (hopefully) a grown woman, put your big girl pants on and deal with it. I'm not saying people shouldn't give up their seats on public transit or hold open doors, or offer to help if a pregnant woman is carrying something heavy, that is just common courtesy. But you don't NEED special parking spaces, you can walk the length of the parking lot and it is actually good for you to stay active, and there is no reason you can't queue.

And your attitude towards the security guard who helped you put something heavy in your basket. What did you expect him to do, carry it around for you until you were done shopping then put it in your car? It is your attitude toward this person who did something to help you that makes me feel like you are really entitled. Instead of thinking how nice it was of this man to help you at all, your first thought is "Well he really didn't help me as much as I needed".
*StephanieLynn  12-Jun-2010 04:12

 
Pregnancy is not an illness, its perfectly normal, there is no reason why you can't go shopping, stand in queues etc, stop whingeing. And yes, i've got kids.
*saz1  28-Mar-2010 09:03

 
just to add no i'm not the author of the gripe. I dont agree with some of her points, like the fashion ones, its only 9 months get a grip, and shopping, get help or do it online. just a little old fashioned consideration would be nice
*fairly_odd  24-Mar-2010 08:26

 
nicci247 some women are actually disabled while pregnant. I had to use crutches in my pregnancies because of a pelvic condition. so yes a little help and consideration would have been appreciated so I could actually have gotten out of the house occassionally
*fairly_odd  24-Mar-2010 08:22

 
As far as fashion for the pregnant goes I seem to see "normal" clothes everywhere that are suitable. The shops seem to be full of loose tops, some smock style, together with loads of drawstring trousers. Jeans all seem to have very big "waists" too, as well as being low slung.
If you can keep them up, that is, but this seems to be a problem for everyone!

Nearly all the fashionable clothes in the shops these days seem to cater for the new female shape, including beer gut! So many girls look pregnant even when they aren't these days I would not have thought finding clothes was a problem!
*grumpyoldwoman  05-Sep-2009 18:16

 
Sorry Stephen, my comment may have been a little harsh, but reality is cold, and some times the cold has to be faced. What would you rather....that she is wrapped in cotton wool and pampered to her every need ? Maybe you would like to pamper her?
Even the elderly dont ask for that kind of treatment, when it is them that should be given it without their asking for it.
She sounds like a spoilt bratt that needs a kick into reality. Either that or call her daddy.
*nicci247  05-Sep-2009 16:02

 
nicci247, I do think your comment below is unnecessarily cruel and overly belligerent. Perhaps you were in an exceptionally foul mood when you wrote it?
*stephen N  01-Sep-2009 09:39

 
It's no wonder the griper hasn't put her name.
Why dont you get your husband to do the shopping and stand in the queues on your behalf ?
You're PREGNANT, not DISABLED, although mentally disabled you maybe, as you do sound an inch short of a plank.
*nicci247  31-Aug-2009 21:00

 
What a load of nonsense !! You are only pregnant for 9 months, and most of that time you are hardly any bigger than you were before you got pregnant.

Can I have some special privileges please? Following a severe accident during which I fractured and crushed two vertebrae in my neck, fractured my pelvis and ankle, plus other injuries, I have a chronically bad back and an extremely painful right knee. My condition is not for just 9 months, it is for the rest of my life and I guess I have several painful and debilitating operations ahead of me to keep me out of a wheelchair.

I'm not moaning, just making a point. There are millions of people far worse off than myself who I am sure would love to have the privileges you mention. And who are far, far more deserving than a pregnant woman.
*Nikki  13-Aug-2009 14:39

 
Women have been having children for thousands of years, and some are as tough as old boots, get real !
*Garance  01-Jun-2009 21:12

 
Ha ha, are you joking? I cant quite tell. You think being pregnant is tough? thats the easy bit lol
*suze  07-May-2009 23:27

 
Mallory

I did not read any other comments before I posted my first one. Reading the gripe was more than enough to irritate me.
*Congo  10-Mar-2009 16:02


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