"Darling I'm pregnant"

[sqad617]

I answered those emotive words with "No big deal, we'll have a baby then " I thought of putting this little gem of journalism in the Pregnancy section, but this might inhibit male comments as this section is the sacrosanct inner sanctum of the female sex and as AB is predominantly female dominated one tends to get emotive and biased replies. If either Adam or Eve were incapable of having children, then the human race would have been "stuffed" from the outset, but fortunately it is more difficult NOT to become pregnant than indeed TO become pregnant, so much so that the medical profession has had to rack it's brains to device ways of avoiding pregnancy. So I ask again�"What is the big deal?" Women who have married and not become pregnant before the age of 22 yrs of age were pitied and thought to be "a bit odd" and one often heard the comment "it is such a pity she doesn't know what she has missed" She bl00dy well does know what she has missed that is why she doesn't want children. Then the "piece de resistance"�the appearance of the wooden stalk in the front garden holding a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, with the bold, common, grotesque pronouncement �." Damien (Peaches, Gary or some other stupid name) arrived yesterday weighing 7lbs 6 ozs"�����.how vulgar and who cares? Why is it when someone has had a baby that the first question is "How much did he/she weigh?"������.what is the "big deal?"�.what does it matter how much he or she weighs? Watch the next episode entitled "Midwives and the Delivery"

[redcrx]

lol sqad, what did mrs sqad say to your comment?
(i presume it was mrs sqad that was expecting)

[jno]

the weight question is really about health. And she may find it more of a big deal than you. Some babies pop out like soap out of a wet hand, for others it's like sh*tting a watermelon, in the words of someone (I've also heard 'More like sh*tting a wardrobe'.) So try to encourage her by telling her she's participating in something special rather than saying 'Oh for pete's sake, women do this every day and are back working in the fields next morning'.

[joggerjayne]

That was a long one, sqad.

[ChuckFickens]

Darling I'm pregnant

Sweet Jesus.... even reading those words makes me break out in a cold sweat!.

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[Bbbananas]

I wish I'd never told you now....
and you thought my eggs were too old & decrepit.

[joggerjayne]

"Gary" as a contraction of "Garfield"?

Or just, plain ... Gary ??

(as in Glitter, nowadays)

[joggerjayne]

LOL Salla.

So Chuck ... what are better words?

"Darling, I'm desparate for a shag"?

"Darling, would you mind if I gave you a blo ..."?

[Bbbananas]

It's a f*****g big deal to the woman sqad.
It must be a (predominantly) female thing?

Bless ya.... what's set you off this time? :-)

[joggerjayne]

Women. Huh. We're obsessed with quantity !

[dustypuss]

Who's the daddy ?

[bigmamma]

What caused that little moan sqad ..lol...good job you didn't go into midwifery with those thoughts , the sex and weight of a new baby is usually the first thing the parents , friends , and family want to know , and indeed it's a guage of the health , and of what beby clothes size to buy eh .

[Bbbananas]

Women have been getting pregnant & getting birth (or not, as the case may be) for time immemorial. So, it's no big deal as in it's far from being a rare or unusual event.

But to a mother-to-be, especially for that first baby, it really is a big deal - whether good news or bad. We all think our own babies are the most precious wonderful specimens ever to be brought into the world. I guess to many a male, the 'big deal' bit doesn't always kick in until the baby's old enough to do something other that sh1t & scream & they feel that 'bond'.

Is that what you mean my little sqadlet?

[sqad617]

redcrx.......LOL...she said ( Oh! my smooth clever husband) and I replied "What has he got to do with it"

salla...morning darling, yesterday wa so boring onAB even Robinia was civil too me LOL

jno...still haven,t answered my question..............can't you ask "Whas it an easy birth" Why "how much did it weigh?"

[Robinia]

From a gardener's point of view, I'm a bit curious about a wooden 'stalk' appearing in the front garden

[sqad617]

salla........LOL...that's my girl.

BM...sex is important, but I wasn't questioning that. I was bored to tears yesterday with AB, so I knew this would get the ranters on the go LOL

[sqad617]

Robinia.......morning my love....LOL LOL

[Bbbananas]

I supose in the olden days, weight may have been an indication of how healthy the baby was likely to be, or it's chance of survival? These days, people just ask so they can think "Wow, what a biffer" and "Bleedin' hell, she's gonna be left with a fanny like a stitched-up channel tunnel".

Plaid Cymri tells me he was 10lbs 10ozs when he was born. The visiting doctor, who was a Scot, took one look at him and said "Tosh - what a whopper he is Mary". I think he meant "Fat Welsh F****r".

[B00]

sqad, are you taking over from Doc in the "miserable scroat" stakes?

;-)