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aimeejoy 
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 Posted: 18 August 2006 at 8:57pm |
OMG Liz! Yuck!! But so funny as well.
I am so sick of men and old ladies asking if my baby is a boy or a girl when dressed in pink! 
ANd Janine, whenever I work people think I'm still a student! Esp, when I've been doing some orientation on the wards and I'm not in uniform yet. Annoys me so much - this is my THIRD year out of uni! 
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Carmel
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Posted: 19 August 2006 at 10:05pm |
Yeah we get asked if piper is a boy or girl as well and she always had pink on.
Also I work in a bar and one of our old punters is always asking if I'm still breastfeeding and looking at my breasts when he says it 
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Posted: 19 August 2006 at 10:48pm |
ewww gross old men ewwwwww  lol
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meow
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Posted: 20 August 2006 at 12:44am |
omg lmao Janine!! And I am not married, and only have one ring (probably on the wrong finger, I have no idea).. people assume all sorts of things. I get the "you look too young to have a child" thing alot. Need to work out a really good reply sometime.
Liz - haha! Once I was about 14 and was walking with my dad who was visiting NZ with my little sister (who would have been a baby then) and we went into a shop where a woman asked him how he and his wife were doing.. omg almost threw up.. i mean, come on, I was FOURTEEN!! And my dad... ugh let's stop there.
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Posted: 20 August 2006 at 7:23am |
When I was at uni I went down to Wellington to visit my parents and met my Dad in town. We were shopping and saw some friends of his wifes- they were a bit abrupt but I didn't think too much of it until I got a phonecall from Dad that night. Apparently the lady had called his wife saying she had seen him out with someone- basically telling her she thought he was having an affair!!!! Ewwww!!!! I mean my Dad is younger (I think I would have been 20 and him 41) but good god!
I used to always get the 'is it a boy or girl?' thing too- when you can't see her because of the pink glare coming from the pram I think its pretty obvious. Some people...
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AnnC
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Posted: 20 August 2006 at 12:02pm |
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There another thing is when you are pregnant people automatically think its okay to touch your belly... now it doesn't bother me if it is a family member or close friend but when its just someone off the street its a bit weird.
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AnnC - I was lucky i never had that problem lol i think i had a permanent pissy look on my face lol that and i wore a "dont touch" shirt when out lol
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Red
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Posted: 20 August 2006 at 12:39pm |
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I was about 15 when my half sister was born, and I remember being out and someone congratulating my dad on becoming a grandfather, so funny looking back, although I don't think dad thought it was. te he. 14 years later he still isn't a grandfather!
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caraMel
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Posted: 21 August 2006 at 3:19pm |
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Gah, I hated people touching my belly unless they were friends or family! I always thought I should have started rubbing theirs or something to let them know how uncomfortable it made me, but I wasn't brave enough, lol.
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nikkitheknitter
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Posted: 21 August 2006 at 9:15pm |
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I had a really annoying adult student in my class who (when I had to leave class to go and get Hannah because she was screaming the house down) asked me why couldn't my husband go and get her. I laughed loud and proud and she didn't speak to me after that for the whole semester!!! *muahahaha*
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Posted: 22 August 2006 at 11:22am |
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Good on you Nikki! I hope she wasn't speaking to you because she felt really stupid after putting her foot in it!
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Posted: 22 August 2006 at 8:07pm |
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I hate people touching my tummy too, it gets more sensitive the bigger it is too!
But my biggest pet hate question is "was it planned?" I mean, what can you say to that? You HAVE to say yes. If you say no, what story will get around them and/or the kid when it's grown older? Grrrr
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Posted: 23 August 2006 at 9:20am |
heheheehehe Hate to think what story Han is going to get when she is older 
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Andie
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Posted: 23 August 2006 at 10:56am |
I agree, Busymum - that's a blimmin rude question to be randomly asking people! I would ask a good friend, and would talk about our own family planning with friends, but that's it. I wouldn't want people who weren't close to me to ask though. I might be really wrong on this, but wouldn't the whole 'suprise' thing mostly be a factor in the early days, when you realise how life is going to change so much and have to adjust to it all? I mean, the result of a planned or not-planned pregnancy is still the same... motherhood!!! Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this, any ladies who've been 'suprised'!
I've so far avoided the belly-touching from strangers. Maybe they can tell I'm fully prepared to rub their tummies right back. I'll almost be dissapointed if I don't get a chance to now! My sis tried to identify what was what (head, back, etc) in my belly while I was minding my own business doing the dishes - being a first year vet student she's suddenly a genius on every topic known to mankind, and there's no arguing with her superior understanding of... well, everything! She didn't believe me when I said the midwife is only just now able to tell how baby is lying, and there's no way us non-midwifes could tell what's what in there yet (anterior placenta). I was being rubbed and prodded like a farm animal... grrrr.
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Why do they do it?
