I posted those first two entries several weeks ago, on a different blog (whose format I don’t like), and then work totally got crazy. Now that I’ve moved over here I hope to write more regularly. (Unfortunately I had to change the URL to "impreg" because "ipreg" was already taken!)
A few things have changed since my last post. I’m five and a half months pregnant now and I’m officially showing. This means that people have started giving me seats on the subway (yay!) but it also means I’ve started getting unsolicited advice from strangers.
I was warned by some of my ladyfriends that this would happen. So far none of it has been horribly offensive, but it’s a little annoying. For example, the other day, I had a business meeting, so I paired my cute new (well, secondhand), office-appropriate maternity dress with my dead-sexy red patent leather high heels. “Aren’t those shoes a little high for you to be wearing?” tsk-tsked some lady I’ve never seen before in my life.
Then, later that week, I went to the farmer’s market to pick up some veggies, since I was hosting a barbecue over the weekend and wanted to whip up some side dishes, including guacamole and jalapeno-lime cole slaw. So I brought a bunch of jalapenos up to the register at one of the stands. “Is it okay for you to eat such spicy foods?” the cashier asked. I wanted to say, “Is it okay for you to ask such nosy questions?”
But she did make me all paranoid for a split second, since no one has ever said one word to me about whether I should or shouldn’t eat spicy foods, and since I love Mexican, Thai and Indian and eat them all the time, I started wondering if I had already inadvertently fried my unborn child. Then I realized that there has never, ever been one documented case of a jalapeno pepper leading to a miscarriage, and I chilled out.
I know these people mean well. But I wish they’d shut the fuck up.
Amazingly, I’ve never gotten any comments when I’ve taken my baby bump out jogging (with my doctor’s blessing, of course! And I constantly monitor my heart rate). Then again, I’m always wearing headphones, so if they are making comments I can’t hear them. Maybe I should just constantly wear headphones for the next four months.
A few things have changed since my last post. I’m five and a half months pregnant now and I’m officially showing. This means that people have started giving me seats on the subway (yay!) but it also means I’ve started getting unsolicited advice from strangers.
I was warned by some of my ladyfriends that this would happen. So far none of it has been horribly offensive, but it’s a little annoying. For example, the other day, I had a business meeting, so I paired my cute new (well, secondhand), office-appropriate maternity dress with my dead-sexy red patent leather high heels. “Aren’t those shoes a little high for you to be wearing?” tsk-tsked some lady I’ve never seen before in my life.
Then, later that week, I went to the farmer’s market to pick up some veggies, since I was hosting a barbecue over the weekend and wanted to whip up some side dishes, including guacamole and jalapeno-lime cole slaw. So I brought a bunch of jalapenos up to the register at one of the stands. “Is it okay for you to eat such spicy foods?” the cashier asked. I wanted to say, “Is it okay for you to ask such nosy questions?”
But she did make me all paranoid for a split second, since no one has ever said one word to me about whether I should or shouldn’t eat spicy foods, and since I love Mexican, Thai and Indian and eat them all the time, I started wondering if I had already inadvertently fried my unborn child. Then I realized that there has never, ever been one documented case of a jalapeno pepper leading to a miscarriage, and I chilled out.
I know these people mean well. But I wish they’d shut the fuck up.
Amazingly, I’ve never gotten any comments when I’ve taken my baby bump out jogging (with my doctor’s blessing, of course! And I constantly monitor my heart rate). Then again, I’m always wearing headphones, so if they are making comments I can’t hear them. Maybe I should just constantly wear headphones for the next four months.
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