14 Crazy Things People Actually Said to Pregnant Women

If you want strangers to lose their filter, get pregnant. If you want bizarre advice from your barista, also get pregnant. These 14 pregnancy moments prove that growing a human comes with zero privacy and nonstop weirdness.

• My mother-in-law had always been supportive. When I told her we were expecting, I had expected enthusiasm. Instead, she gasped, her expression shifting to anger. I stood frozen as she stepped forward, placed a hand on my belly, and softly said, “What about your career? Women who have babies always lose their careers.”

• I was standing by the freezer section at the grocery store, trying to pick out some frozen veggies, when a woman walked up to me with a serious expression and said, “You’re pregnant, right? Then you really need to stop eating broccoli. It causes green eyes in babies. And green eyes mean a difficult personality.” I thought she was joking - but she wasn’t. She went on to tell me about her daughter, who “always has her own opinion,” and how she’s convinced it’s because she ate three bowls of steamed broccoli during her second trimester.

• I expected my son in 2019. I was walking to a midwife appointment around 35 weeks pregnant. Some random woman came and asked if it was my first, to which I responded, “Yes.”
  She then looked me dead in the eye and said, “Labor hurts.” Ehm, thanks. No one told me that? 🙃 🤣 © DeepFriedPB / Reddit

• My husband and I agreed not to tell anyone I was pregnant yet, but when his sister randomly asked, he told her the truth. I was annoyed until I found out why she asked. She works at my bank and snooped through my account just to see if I’d changed my last name—then saw baby-related purchases and put it together.
  I was furious. She invaded my privacy, crossed so many lines, and then had the nerve to ask if we only got married because I was pregnant.
  And she genuinely thinks she did nothing wrong. I closed my account that same day. The audacity.

• My partner was listening to the baby and feeling for her the other day while we were sitting on the couch, relaxing. While his ear was placed on my tummy, I may have quietly tooted a little, and he giggled with pure love and excitement, saying, "I think she burped." © NumCucumber / Reddit

• With my first at about 8 months pregnant, I was walking to my car in the grocery store parking lot, and some older woman chased me down—literally running. "Hey! Hey!!" I ignored her at first, but she started getting closer and still yelled, "Hey!"
  So I turned to look and she, out of breath, said, "Is this your first?" I said yes, and she was like, "Aww, congratulations!" and walked away. 😂😂 She HAD to know, I guess. © Unknown author / Reddit

• When my mom was pregnant with me, she was working as a paralegal. One of the attorneys asked her, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, if she could just delay giving birth until “after this big case is done.” My mom looked him dead in the eye and said, “I feel so sorry for your wife.” Dude had three kids. © ellasaurusrex / Reddit

• When I was 7 months pregnant, working in a café, a random lady was looking at me with such a horrified and concerned expression while I made her coffee that I had to ask if she was ok. She said something along the lines of, "Well... It's too late now... But you really shouldn't be around these coffee beans."
  I assumed it was something to do with caffeine, but she went on to say, "...They produce so much carbon monoxide, it's really not good for the baby!" Apparently, during the roasting process, they can emit a small amount, but like, if we were all huffing carbon monoxide all day, wouldn't there be an investigation into baristas dropping dead? Why just baby? © queenofswords13 / Reddit

• A very rude guy at the store today came up to me. Didn’t even make eye contact and just pointed to my stomach while talking to his young daughters and said loudly, “THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T EAT WATERMELON SEEDS.” © Idunnodoyouwhynotme / Reddit

• This didn’t happen to me, but when I was at my best friend’s baby shower, her aunt came up to her in the middle of our conversation, crouched down, and put her ear to my friend’s belly for about 20 seconds, then looked up at my friend and said, “He’s okay.” My friend said her aunt had never done anything like that before. © emskib / Reddit

• My old boss was upset because my coworker’s wife had her C-section scheduled on truck day. He could not fathom that a scheduled C-section doesn’t necessarily mean you can pick the exact day. He thought truck day was more important than the doctor’s/hospital’s time, her due date, the health of the baby, etc.
  He convinced the poor guy to work in the morning, and then he can drive his wife to the hospital. She went into labor the night before and ended up needing an emergency C-section. “Does the baby not know it’s truck day?” became a running joke. © galateainthedark / Reddit

• My favorite pregnancy story to tell is when one woman told me that my belly seemed very small and was concerned if the baby was really growing the way it should be. Half an hour later, another one told me my belly seemed very big and if I was really sure that it wasn't twins. © Kidtroubles / Reddit

• A male coworker was low-key complaining that our office has a “mother’s room” but no “father’s room.” Said it wasn’t fair that new dads don’t get a break, too.
  I asked what he thought the mother’s room was for, and oh boy. He said, “Well, for new moms to nap during office hours, right?” I had to explain what pumping is. The man looked so embarrassed.

• I was riding the elevator up to the seventh floor when an elderly man stepped in, glanced at me, and said, “I’m guessing twins. Definitely girls. They always drain your energy.” I was caught off guard - I knew I was having just one boy, and everything was going smoothly. Before I could respond, he gently shook my hand, gave me a strange, almost sad look, and got off on the fifth floor. Two weeks later, during a routine ultrasound, the doctor discovered I had originally been carrying twins… but one of the baby girls had stopped developing early on. I had never told anyone about it. But somehow, he knew.

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