Maternity Pictures

I know I’m being sensitive, but I’m hormonal sooo....here we go 🙃

I’m really self conscious about my looks. Like, really. I’ve always been on the curvier side my whole life and my pregnancies haven’t helped in that regard. My family (me, my husband, our two year old, and his parents) went on a beach vacation and my MIL wanted to take pictures for me. I thought it was sweet, as I hadn’t gotten to take pictures when I was pregnant with my daughter and my son is our rainbow baby.

I hesitated, but I posted some on my Facebook because I felt really pretty and feminine for the first time in a while. Everyone commented how pretty I was and how they can’t wait to meet Ronan (our son’s name). Until one. This guy who insisted on being friends with me because he’s a “friend” of my husband’s. It’s in quotations because my husband doesn’t really like him, he goes to our church and thinks that because we helped him through a rough patch in his marriage through a peer group that we want to be friends...we were just helping as part of the group.

Anyway, he writes “are you sure there aren’t twins in there lol”. Y’all.

I was raised to believe you NEVER comment on a woman’s body, much less if she is pregnant. Saying you look nice today is one thing. But you never know how you can trigger someone about their appearance with a comment, so I usually stick with a compliment towards an outfit or makeup or hair.

I’m being sensitive, I know. But I was really annoyed by that. I don’t find it cute or funny. He doesn’t know me well enough to make jokes about my pregnancy or about me at all, to be honest. And yes, before anyone suggests, he was unfriended for it. 😆