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Seriously… no more slideshows, please! Is it because you get more page hits that way?

The day I brought my first son home from the hospital, my mother told me that I had not given birth to him because I had a c-section =/

When I was pregnant with my first, a friend at work told me to “prepare to be to’ up from the flo’ up.” Did you just do a Kiegel? Yeah, me too.

It is so awesome of you to LISTEN to your readers’ comments and change your post!

When I am pregnant I have people say to me that I they couldn’t tell if I was really pregnant (isn’t that the same as calling someone fat?). My biggest baby was 7 lbs even. A family member asked why we choose out oldest daughter’s first name since it was the worst on our name list and not very fair to name our daughter after someone on only my side of the family.

I want to know who Candra’s doctor was so we can use him! Good for him for trying, although he might want to soften his approach :P

(From a very elderly lady in a Hoveround in the grocery store while I was carrying my baby in an Ergo)
Her: “Is that a real baby”
Me: “Yes”
Her: “Is it alive?”
Me: “Um.”

Thanks for getting rid of the slideshow!!!

I told an aunt the name we chose (Desmond), and her response was: oh–that name is still on the table, huh?” As if I were negotiating peace in the mideast.

Other good name comment: A painfully rednecky coworker saw my son’s name on our registry. Her question was “Is that really the name? I thought you were trying to play a prank on us.”

Really? I thought the same thing about your clothes.

I’ve had 3 beautiful baby boys, and everytime someone finds that out they say ” so are you going to try for a girl?” Like my 3 kids aren’t good enough!
I HATE that!

When I was pregnant with my first, my neighbor (whose children I had been babysitting for free for weeks, btw), told me I must be having a girl because my “nose got huge”. Two months later, I my son was born.

A friend of the family came up to me after church to say that he had thought I’d been putting on quite a lot of weight and only just realized that it seemed to be “quite localized”. He asked whether congratulations were in order. Needless to say I was rather taken aback! This was mid Jan. My daughter was born less than six weeks later.

“Oh look, that’s not a doll, it’s a real baby!” (Odd. I don’t know many 20-somethings who breastfeed baby dolls at the fabric store.)

“Oh, what a sweet little boy. He’s so handsome. How old is he? He looks like he’s such a happy little gentleman.” (My daughter was wearing a pink shirt and floral pants when this was said.)

my daughter was also close to 20 pds at 3 months and I was told to “get her on a breast feeding schedule because there IS such a thing as infant obesity”

On the name front, when my husband and I were expecting, we carefully selected one girl name and one boy name. We didn’t find out what we were having until the delivery room, so we the name reveal was our big thing. The names were set in stone. The boy name we picked was Arthur Daniel. Arthur for a man who kept my husband’s family together after his father ducked out, and Daniel for my father, who is as near to a father to my husband as possible.

When we announced them, everybody nodded in approval and chattered excitedly. All except one person. They pretended to sneeze and said “Oh, sorry, it’s just that I’m allergic to the boy name. It’s really bad.”

REALLY? It’s bad enough that you need to criticize our name selection when you know it’s set in stone, but you also feel the need to criticize it after you’ve been told the reasons and sentiments behind our name picks? Really?

I have other ones, but that one to me is it’s own special kind of jackassery.

Sooo… i get this alot (almost 8 months after my son was born)… his name is Alex… simple 4 letter name. when people ask me what his name is I tell them that his name is Alex… and they automatically say “Alexander” beautiful name… my reply is always… nope. just Alex. not Alexander or Alejandro… just Alex. its getting quite annoying that they asume his name is Alexander…

When I went to my first OB appointment, my blood pressure was slightly elevated. I was nervous–first pregnancy, my family and baby’s father didn’t know, unexpected/unplanned pregnancy. Upon discovering my high blood pressure, the nurse comes back and tells me, “We’re transferring your primary care to another doctor because Dr. Miller doesn’t think you’ll keep your baby very long.” Even if the doctor had said that, she didn’t have to tell me and make me even more scared. Now, I have a beautiful and perfect 7 week old baby boy.

I was told my son would be a bad man and father because his father skipped out before be was born and his grandfather left when his dad was a baby…. Cool thanks for making my personal agony worse.

I had my second child, a boy, in a freestanding birth center. My MIL, who works for the hospital that tried to switch my first child, told me that it would kill her grandbaby and that midwives don’t know how to deliver babies.

After he was born safely, she and FIL burst into the room and asked when he would be circumcised, before even looking at their first grandson. I was then told that he would grow up to hate us and end up killing us because he’ll get AIDS. We kept the whole baby.

I wasn’t getting along with Sister in law and I noticed that she never wanted to look much less go near my daughter and when I asked her about it she said it was because she couldn’t stand to look at her. I haven’t spoken to her much since that.
She is the only one who felt that obviously because I always had people come up to tell me how beautiful my daughter was.
When I was in the hospital having my daughter no one came to visit my hubby was the only who there by my side the whole time and he had to call my family and ask them to visit.
My brother told me I was being selfish because I was having a cesarian instead of natural birth despite the fact that I was having complications.

Luckily, I haven’t had too many awful comments since having our daughter, who is now 3 1/2 months old. However, a friend of mine was called selfish by an aunt because she has chosen to breastfeed, therefore, “not allowing anyone else to have the joy of feeding the baby.”

My sister in law and i were not getting along to begin with but while at her daughter’s (my niece) 5th birthday she told me the reason she never asked to hold my weeks old baby girl is because she couldn’t bare to look at her. Mind you she is the only one who must have felt this way because i always had people come up and tell me how cute she was.
I spent a week in the hospital because i was overdue and my daughter just did not want to come out and the possibility of a c-section was looking inevitable, my older brother who was asked by my hubby to visit basically told me i was being selfish and not trying hard enough because i was considering a C-Section instead of a natural birth.

sorry about the repeat posts my iphone kept saying that my post was not successful.

When I was in my third trimester and feeling quite large, a pretty 20-something, single, child-free, female co-worker said to me, “Wow, you just keep getting bigger everytime I see you. I mean seriously, you are so big, you look structurally unsound.” Then about three weeks after the baby was born and he was nursing often due to a growth spurt, my MIL said, “You’re just not producing enough milk.” Those are fighting words, let me tell you!