Words of Advice from Strangers

Now that I am pretty obviously pregnant, I've been getting a lot of unsolicited comments and advice. I think it's hilarious! Why do people feel like they can do that?

I wish I would have started keeping track of these comments and advice earlier. . .

Random person at school: Did you know you're supposed to bite your baby's nails off instead of cutting them?


Male Teenage Cashier at Menards:  Do you want help getting that into your car? (I was getting dog food)
Me: Sure- that would be really helpful.
MTCAM: What kind of dog do you have?
Me: A labradoodle and a lab.
MTCAM: (While looking at my belly) Is it a boy?
Me: The baby? It's a girl.
MTCAM: My sister just had a girl. Like a month ago.
Me: Awe! So she's still a little baby?
MTCAM: Nope. She's like. . . 12 pounds now. She's healthy and big because my sister breastfeeds her a lot. So. . .
A teenage boy basically implied that I should breastfeed. Haha!


Cashier at Target (I was getting baby sized hangers): Awe I forgot about all the little hangers and things you need to get for a baby. I wish my son was little again.When he was quiet, didn't talk back, or ask why all the time.



"Get and epidural. Or a c-section." - Some kid at my school's family member



"Sleep now- once the baby is born, you won't really sleep ever again. Especially on Christmas- but holidays are exciting and fun" - parent of a student




As I was walking out of school, a grandma was waiting to pick up her grandkids and said something about me being pregnant. She said, "are you having a girl?" and I told her I was. She told me she could tell by the way I'm carrying. She has six grandkids, so she's good at that kind of thing :)



Teacher at school: Have your husband give you lots of massages.
Now that is the kind of advice I can follow through on! :)



"How are you sleeping? You should sleep as much as you can now because you aren't going to get any sleep once that baby is born."




"It's good you started trying when you did. My daughter didn't until she finished graduate school and I lost hope that she was ever going to get pregnant. If you don't try when you are really young, you might not ever have kids."  Okkkaayyy




"If you're active during pregnancy, you're going to have a really active baby"



A guy at the grocery store shouted out across some veggie aisles: "Little girl?" I smiled and said, "Yep!" He said, "I knew it! I could tell by the way you were walking."



"When you want to go into labor, take a spoonful of castor oil. It works every time."