Haven't You Had That Baby Yet?

Part of the problem being short and pregnant is that the baby has nowhere to go but OUT. So, for the last couple months I have looked very pregnant. And for the last two months I've heard, "You look like you're going to pop!" Or some comment close to that. At least once a day. Mostly by strangers.. And it's gotten really, really old. There are two people in particular that make me nuts when I see them and they ask. One is the stupid nurse at the doctors office. I don't usually see this girl, but whenever my regular one isn't there and she is, I just cringe. She always, always says the same stupid thing. "Girl, you STILL haven't had that baby? Gosh you look like you're going to pop." As she isn't holding my medical chart doesn't know when I am due. Moron. Then she tells me how much weight I've gained.

The next woman is some Mom at the preschool my sister works at. She is loud and obnoxious and I cringe if we have to pass each other in the hall, she will, no doubt, get RIGHT in my face every single time I see her and monopolize my life for about twenty minutes. She talks and talks about how I look like I am going to pop, how big I am, when I am having the baby, and how her friend had her baby two months early so maybe I will, too. This particular conversation has been going on for two months now and I am starting to think she has alzheimers. I have actually hidden in the prayer room to avoid seeing this woman.

Not every comment I get is, "You look like you're going to pop!" But comments like that, and the obviously stupid one, "Haven't you had that baby yet?" Are the two I have to actually force myself to smile and say, "Ha, nope. Not yet!" So I don't give them the dumbest look I can muster and say something sarcastic and rude. But I don't know if I can fake it the last couple weeks-I think I am at the point of just giving up and saying what I really wanna say. Not that I am super pregnant, grouchy, uncomfortable and irritable or anything.

What I do love is the random people who say things like, "Aw, aren't you just the cutest?" Even if they don't mean it. I don't think I've ever said the "pop" comment to someone yet, but I have vowed a very solemn vow that I will never, ever say that to a pregnant woman. I am going to only say things like, "You are adorable pregnant!" And "You're just glowing, how much longer?" And, "How are you feeling? You look great!" I don't care how tired she is, how big she is, she doesn't need or want to hear anything else.