Pregnant women issues

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!

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, I do think your comment below is unnecessarily cruel and overly belligerent. Perhaps you were in an exceptionally foul mood when you wrote it?

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.

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.

Women have been having children for thousands of years, and some are as tough as old boots, get real !

Ha ha, are you joking? I cant quite tell. You think being pregnant is tough? thats the easy bit lol

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

No I am not the author of the original gripe. I would hardly be likely to disagree with myself and comment as I have done if I were. That fact should surely have been obvious if you had read my first comment...

Mallory

Reasoned and balanced is what I said, and that holds true. The phrase "pre-natal bint" was a quite deliberate inclusion, hence my "somewhat heated" adjunct. I believe the current popular phrase is: 'a wind-up'.

Writing whilst irritated (the topic is not important enough to warrant annoyance) is to be treated with caution, but I indulged myself by using the small, ire-raising epithet in my mildly facetious rant against dangerous driving whilst ferrying the aforementioned 'P-NB' to hospital.

I am perfectly happy to display my good manners and breeding by holding open doors for a lady, helping her lift heavy loads and so forth however I (quite reasonably) draw the line if, or when these courtesies are demanded of me by a strident 'P-NB'.

By the bye, are you the author of this gripe?

Treat all people as you would expect to be treated. That is rather old fashioned in todays society. That is how I was raised, that is how I will carry on.
This means giving up a seat, opening doors etc. Old fashioned I am and will remain.

Congo

Referring to someone as a 'pre-natal bint' is reasonable and balanced in your eyes, is it? Ye gods...

I also mentioned that concessions to the extreme weren't always necessary, therefore your 'bending over backwards' could not reasonably apply to my comment. I certainly don't expect anyone to 'bend over backwards' for me...I prefer to do it myself as it eases the backache!

I think beneath your somewhat degrading way of expressing yourself you do make some good points; namely, pregnancy IS a 'self-inflicted condition' and not a disability, and should not be treated as one. I get quite ofended when told I shouldn't drive/life things/move because of the baby. However, helping out an obviously pregnant woman by holding open a door or lifting something heavy is essentially down to something called 'manners', which many people these days seem to forget about. Regardless of a pregnancy or not, manners cost nothing.