When is your baby due? Oh...you're not pregnant?!

That is so funny...embarassing but too funny!! I bet you ewanted to run away and forget what you were buying!! I have never said that to anyone but I worked at Wal-Mart when I was pregnant with my daughter and I got big (50 pounds big) and I would sometimes ask the customers to pick up their huge bags of dog foor or whatever that I couldn't possibly lift and they would ask me why I couldn't do it!! Like my belly wasn't poking out for the world to see why I can't lift a ton of dog food! I get embarassed when I say a baby looks like a boy and it is a girl or vice versa! I did that recently with a girl I use to work with, her daughter was wearing a red shirt and jeans and the hair was curly and everywhere (not cute like a little girls) so I said something about her "boy" and she looked at me like I was stupid for thinking it was a boy and not a girl. I just rubbed my head like I was having a long day and mummbled something that didn't even make sence to me =)

OH MY! I have never ask someone when they were due unless I knew that they were expecting because I was in line at the checkout once and a woman hugged another woman, they chit chatted about how long it had been and then one ask the other when she was due. The lady burst into tears. She said she was meds that made her gain the weight and she was not expecting. My heart just broke for this lady and I swore that I would never do that. To this day, i have not made that mistake

well... i've never said that to anybody or had anyone say that to me thank God, however, i have seen people I know are not pregnant but yet look like they are 6 - 8 months pregnant. How in the world do they manage that??

I was actually talking about this on another board. One time, I was in NYC, at Penn Station, trying to get an earlier train home. While I was waiting in line, the woman in front of me asked me a question. I couldn't hear her that well, and thought she just asked me what I was doing in line, so I answered "I'm trying to switch trains, blahblahblah..." and she said "no, when are you due?" and actually put her hand on my stomach. I was just shocked, and said "I'm not pregnant!" The woman was really embarrassed, but I was even more so. I knew I was overweight, but I didn't know I looked pregnant. That was the turning point, and I have since lost 30 pounds. But what I don't get is where people get the idea that it's ok to put their hands on a pregnant woman's stomach. If you wouldn't put your hands on their stomach if they weren't pregnant, why does being pregnant make it ok?

yeah I get it about monthly. After I had my kids the gut just never went away, and my back still arches like I'm pregnant. The first time I was pissed, but then it kept happening and now I just laugh it off. I say unless you see the woman standing in a big puddle of amniotic fluid, or you see a head crowning, just don't ask, you'll save yourself from a lot of embarrassment. Besides, pregnant woman get kinda tired of talking to every stranger about the due date and the gender, and oh have you picked a name yet. Oh and dear god, should you see a stranger who is pregnant in her 8-9th month do not touch her belly. EVER.

Oh yes, this happened to me! I was in a doctors office for my daughters check up and I saw an old friend from high school. She looked very pregnant. Unfortunately I did not see the bab carrier next to her. She had already had the baby months before! I went to her and said "it is so good to see you! so, when are you due?" well, I think that about said it all. She just told me"I already had my baby, I am just fat now." I was appalled at my action! What could I do but apologize. The nurse bailed me out by calling my name. I never saw her again and am still embarressed to this day!

I hear ya loud and clear!! I was just in Wal-mart yesterday and was thinking the same thing about the shirts how they make everyone look pregnant. I for sure wouldn't wear one.LOL

Been there done that, never want to return. I have swore to myself not to ask anyone when the baby is due until i know for a fact they are expecting, for example, if they are in the baby section talking about their baby's gender or the next doctor appointment.

That has actually happened to me a couple of times. It had been a year since I had had my daughter, and I still had some pounds to lose and they were all in my tummy. The first time, I told the truth and said I wasn't pregnant. The lady apologized so many times (and was almost in tears) that I then lied and said that I had just had my baby (thankfully I could pull it off because my daughter was at home with her daddy). The second time, it was a little old lady that said it to me and, remembering the first time, I fibbed and told her I had a few months to go. I just couldn't bear to see her get upset. But it did bother me both times...I ended up crying when I got home.

no i have never done it or it has never happened to me. well it has but i was pregnant so its ok!

Actually I was about 7 months pregnant when I had an incident in the grocery store. I was minding my own business pushing my cart along when a lady I'd never seen before came up beside me with her own cart, proceeded to drop to her knees right in front of me and started rubbing my stomach cooing about how much she loved pregnant womens tummies. I stood there in complete shock for a moment, absolutely speechless, and then before I even knew what I was doing I said "I'm not pregnant." The lady stood up looking absolutely horrified, and leaving her cart right where it was she hurried away and out the store. When I got home and told my partner (now ex) about it, he roared with laughter. He said it served her right for just assuming and having the nerve to drop to her knees and start touching a strangers pregnancy bulge lol. I felt terrible about it, but I've never seen her again. I'd recognize her in an instant.

This has happened to me not once, not twice but three times in the last 6 months! I don't know what it is that makes them think I am preganat! I just tell them I am not pregnant and leave it at that. People make mistakes, I guess...

The only time I have been asked when are you due is when I was pregnant with my daughter thank god lol. The only time I have asked someone else is if I know they are pregnant! I would be sooooooo embarassed if I thought someone was and wasn't or if someone asked me.

well thats really irritating so my next question will be ur gonna become grandma or grandpa be happy u stupid fella....

I have never done it to someone else, but I've had it happen to me like 5 times. Mainly right after my daughter was born so I did have a lovely little pootch still there. I about cried every time. It got to the point I just went along with it. But you're right, never assume. It really hurts peoples feelings when you're incorrect.

A friend of my husband and I have four children all are over 18 except one they have a 4 year old. The oldest boy has a girlfriend, that if you saw her you would swear she is 7 or 8 months pregnant and she isn't. Her belly don't match the rest of her body. She looks quite acquired now that I think about it.

I can see your point. Nearly 14 years ago I had an Emergency Ceaser. As it was done very quickly, the muscles were not put back correctly. Hence, I still looked at least 3 months pregnant. Until recently... I had a tummy tuck and look a whole lot better.

I have had this said to me and I have said it to someone else. Geeze, it is the most embarrassed I think I have ever been. It's like there is nothing you can say to change the fact that you have just slung a back-handed insult! At least when the person said it to me, having done it to someone myself and knowing how mortified they were, I was able to assist them by swearing off Little Debbie cakes and shirts that looked like maternity tops!

it's happened to me but i didn't take too much affence to it. it was after i had had my daughter and i saw an old friend who i haven't seen since i was pregnant. after i had my daughter i didn't lose all the weight so he thought i was pregnant again since i was thin before i had her. he just assumed i'd get my normal body back. he felt worst about it than i did. i know i gained weight and to me it's not a big deal so i wasn't embarassed.

Right after I had my first child, he was about 1 month old , it happened to me. The sad thing is, I was pushing him in the stroller and I ran into someone I knew from school. We hadn't seen each other for a long time. The first thing out of her mouth was 'congratulations, when are you due.' I was mortified!!! After all, I was strolling a new born! I kinda laughed it off, but it has stuck with me!