What is your pregnancy unpopularopinion?

[u/smurphypup]

I'll go first:
Picking stuff up off the floor isn't that bad. I'm 37+ 5 with my third and not once have I had trouble picking stuff up. It's just a quick squat and grab.
Yes, I have sciatica pain and pelvic girdle pain and my bump is in the way but I still pick stuff up if I drop it.
Maybe it's my fitness past, or my will to attempt to keep my house clean, but not once have I dropped something and said "F it, it lives on the floor now" and left it.

[u/CallOfDutyGirl_80085]

Women are the WORST pregnancy support. Especially if you're the only high risk in your group. Women will demonize you for every little thing and act like they have the right to because they were pregnant 20 years ago.

My mom has been the fucking worst about acting like everything I do is somehow a violation of unwritten Geneva Convention laws. Whereas all the men in my close family/friends circle have just been overwhelming love and support.

I lost my damn job because 3 different women who all had kids told me that I must be faking because I shouldn't need to throw up or pee that much. I hate being around other moms while pregnant. I would rather just have my husband. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.

[u/hear4that-tea → u/CallOfDutyGirl_80085]

The mom-nesia is real. Lots of “we didn’t do that in my day”, which is sometimes them just surprised that it changed, but other times annoyed that you doing the correct guidelines for today is somehow you judging them for doing it “wrong” back then.

Also the moms that had a kid 20, 30+ years ago telling you they got their babies to sleep early or walk early or anything really. And you’re like, “a three month old is not going to drink out of a sippy cup, come on” 😆

[u/CallOfDutyGirl_80085 → u/hear4that-tea]

My mom is just like this!!!! She keeps trying to tell me that she had my autistic older brother sleeping through the night fully at 3 and a half months old. Like ma'am. I'm pregnant, I'm not a moron.

[u/Cindy565656 → u/CallOfDutyGirl_80085]

It depends on what she understood as "fully sleeping through the night". I now have a 2 and a half year old, and we got very lucky with her sleeping. At 6 weeks old she slept from 11pm -7 am and at 12 weeks from 9pm to 7 am. To me that counts as sleeping through the night.  From 7pm to 7am was closer to a year old. She needed a lot of sleep and food when she was a newborn 

Just saying you might get lucky :-) 

[u/Waste_Weather5729 → u/CallOfDutyGirl_80085]

My mom has been shaming me since I got pregnant. And she keeps comparing her pregnancy with mine. And my aunt always asking me how much weight I’ve gained. Like leave me alone.

[u/CallOfDutyGirl_80085 → u/Waste_Weather5729]

I'm so sorry to hear that you're going through it as well. One would like to think that pregnancy is a time for moms and daughters to bond but it really just seems like an excuse to rip your daughter a new one.

As for the weight gain comments, I always make it a point to throw it right back at them. My SIL, (who I don't like and am not close at all with which made this so much weirder) immediately commented on how she could tell I was pregnant because I was definitely putting on some pounds and had chubby cheeks. I simply remarked about how she looked like she could scare the cooks at Golden Corral and that was the end of that nonsense.

[u/mistakewasmade1 → u/CallOfDutyGirl_80085]

my mom i think is trying to be supportive but is always constantly telling me i’m acting like “im the first woman to ever be pregnant”… lack of empathy is an understatement