Public Service Announcement
To all good intentioned people out there--here are some tips on communicating with pregnant women.
Try to avoid making comments like, "You must be due any day now!" or "You look like you're going to explode!" You are bound to feel awkward when the pregnant woman responds with, "No, actually I have two months to go," or "Why, thank you! I feel like I'm going to explode."
Also, facial expressions speak volumes. A wide-eyed "Wow!" uttered upon sight of the woman pretty much says it all. Recent comments I've gotten from relative strangers include the above as well as: "Wow, you better lay off the donuts!" and "Oh my gosh! You are HUGE!"
FYI, the only comment that is guaranteed to be well received is, "You look great!"
I'm writing this down now, because I know I'll laugh about it later. Well, OK, I'm laughing about it now, too. :)
posted by Ronni @ 1:18 PM
2 Comments:
I hear Dave was one of the folks with the comments. Sorry about that I thought he was better trained than that! He did feel badly about it. I explained that after the 100th time hearing these "funny" remarks, it is just no longer funny. While it is not hurtful, I just found it got old. I actually started telling the engineers where I was working that they too were looking fat, and that I knew in X number of months my belly would be gone, what about theirs???
Sometimes they got the point other times they did not.
I am sure you look great, hang in there!
Oh, Dave was fine! The poor guy took the brunt of my end-of-day lack of humor though! I should work on a snappy comeback like yours instead of sulking. :)
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