Looking Pregnant

[SadieKate]

Leslie, you always look so trim and fit. Go let the hormones due their deed and let it go. The nurse should know better than to say things like that. Ask her when was the last time she rode a 100 miles in one day.

[Trekhawk]

Thanks girls. I just got back from a ride and as you know cycling helps put everything back into perspective. I guess being premenstrual really affects me emotionally more than physically so what I would have laughed off last week makes me crazy this week. Considering that she is pretty lucky she survived the experience (being cranky is also a problem when Im premenstrual).

Thank goodness I have my bicycle to sort me out.

[mtkitchn]

Although I AM premenstrual right now, I can't blame that for my belly. I always look pregnant when I have a few extra pounds on me, since that's where every ounce of fat goes. The curse of the "apple" shape, I suppose.

[Trekhawk]

Although I AM premenstrual right now, I can't blame that for my belly. I always look pregnant when I have a few extra pounds on me, since that's where every ounce of fat goes. The curse of the "apple" shape, I suppose.

LOL - apple shape not heard that one before. Im with you on the fat storing thats where any extra pounds I have go to first and come of last. I think the boobs is the first place the fat leaves ahhh if only I could push that fat up somehow I could change my forum name to Busty.

[pooks]

Look on the bright side! At least she didn't look at you and assume you were too old to be preggers!

(Um, maybe not very bright, but a little bright?)

[Trekhawk]

Look on the bright side! At least she didn't look at you and assume you were too old to be preggers!

(Um, maybe not very bright, but a little bright?)

Mate I will take the upside over the down any day. Ill be hitting 42 in a couple of months so I guess I should take it as a compliment.

[Lise]

Years ago, a co-worker, a nurse in L+D, reached over and patted my tummy in the elevator. Asked, "When are you due?" I said, "I'm not pregnant." She gasped and turned bright red. I'm sure I did, too. But it's taught me not to ask that question unless someone is either waddling in the 9th month, or actually in labor. And then, I don't have to ask! I hope the experience has cured "your" nurse of ever asking again!

Glad the bike lifted your mood. That's a reliable one, isn't it?!

[Dogmama]

Between PMS and IBS, I completely understand. It clearly sucks. I have my big long dresses for those days. I want to feel like I'm wearing my PJ's to work, because my mood is usually NOT sunny!

[yellow]

I have my big long dresses for those days.

One day I was wearing one of these big long dresses and I got the question. I was flabbergasted and the gal was rightfully embarrassed. That evening I threw the dress in the garbage and have never worn anything like that in public since!

I think it was Dave Barry that said something like "DO NOT ask a woman if she's pregnant unless you see the baby coming out AT THAT MOMENT."

[Kitsune06]

No kidding. God.
And being skinny makes it WORSE. When I was about 108# and SKINNY, skinny, like see-my-ribs-more-than-you-can-now skinny, it was so bad that every time I was premenstrual, I bloated so noticeably I was asked a couple of times, and even when my IBS kicked up REALLY bad, I was asked once. EMBARRASSING. People think that when you're just married, every time you start to have to put on your 'fat' or 'bloated' jeans, you're pregnant.

...and I've gotten the 'sir' thing before. Gruh. Even worse: I've been shopping and overheard a little girl arguing with her mom over whether or not I'm a boy.
Worse: the little girl difinitively decided that yes, I most definitely was. "She doesn't have boobies." She was like 5, she doesn't have to CARE whether or not I have boobies! GEEZ!

[Nanci]

Oh, my daughter was at the mall with her baby, only her GF was holding the baby, and a clerk asked Kelly if she was the little brother....(Short hair, likes to wear baggy clothes sometimes) http://home.alltel.net/nlevake/Kelly/kelly.htm