Annoying comments about pregnancy
There’s this friend I have, and she’s annoying the crap out of me throughout my pregnancy. She’s constantly making backhanded remarks about how I don’t look pregnant or as pregnant as other people (I most definitely do, I’ve just been in a Sherpa or hoodie every time she’s seen me and this is my first so I’m not massive), and how I make pregnancy sound “scary” when everyone else she knows just loves being pregnant. (I’m in my third trimester and suffering from pretty severe PGP, but I only tell her about it when she asks how I’m doing). She makes comments about how I won’t ever look the same postpartum. Like if I mention how I can’t wait to have my body back, as in not having to carry my babe around, she’ll say that I’ll never quite have the same body back. And she often comments on how my boobs will never be normal again and asks me how I think I’ll feel confident again covered in stretch marks. The hardest part is that all of her comments *seem* to come off as well-intended, but every time I run into her or she talks to me I end up feeling like my confidence is broken or that I’m a terrible person for complaining or expecting anything to be positive after pregnancy. She’s never been pregnant herself so it’s annoying when she has unsolicited advice, but I don’t want to push her off as a friend even though I can hardly stand to listen to her speak anymore 😅
Sorry guys for the book,
I guess I just need to vent. I don’t really have any mommy friends and I feel like my other friends don’t understand so it makes all this extra frustrating sometimes.
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