I am absolutely flabbergasted by the media continually drawing attention to someone or other's baby bump. Almost every day some idiotic reporter mentions someone proudly showing off her baby bump and I can't work out why he/she bothers. It is hardly newsworthy but the trend has been in my face for ages now. Every woman who has been pregnant has sported a bump. A bump is only skin stretching around the nursery and supermarket which nature provides to sustain a baby until it decides to join us "on the outside". Size varies of course, but that's all. Everyone is the same. Be they celebrity or just plain woman in the street, nothing changes. What's the big deal? The only bumps I've ever been excited about were mine - and I've certainly never wanted to touch or even comment about anyone else's. To be honest, I've probably not even noticed, other than to register pregnancy. I have never indulged in the sport of bump watching (which seems to be a media compulsion) nor can I imagine it ever happening. So many more worthwhile things to watch, I say. God forbid I'll ever be guilty of the bump reporting sin. Can you imagine? "Hey everyone, have just been to the mall and spotted Mesopotamia's baby bump!!! #happy dance" (whatever hashtag means in modern parlance). Hopefully if I ever sank so low the resounding response would be 'GET A LIFE' - as well it should. Sorry everyone, but it's been bugging me all wretched day.
I was behind a pregnant lady (?) once on the escalator. Not sure if the day was hot or not but she turned around and in my face was this great huge bare belly, stretch marks and all, midriff top to under the voluptous chest and stretch pants waistband tucked under the swelling. Belly button and all. Nearly threw up I did. Paints a wonderful picture eh! The most discussing sight you could imagine. We all arrived that way and we all know what happened to get it there. So I don’t want the result of that shoved in my face. And BABY BUMP, please. I’m there with you Philipa. All these ‘beautiful’ people being photographed at Hollywood do’s, why do they have to grab under the thing so we don’t miss it. PLEASE. Love to be a fly on the wall in the labour room when the bump decides it’s had enough in there.......
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, Sue, but I'm afraid I'd be hard pressed to find a thousand to suit that particular picture (you poor thing)!!!!!!! (did you have a "one use" plastic bag handy?) SORRY!!
My Dad, when he was rather getting on in age, came across one similarly attired and told her to go home and put some clothes on.
Ditto ditto. Yesterday we were at the mercy of the car radio as on the motorway for much of the day. It was the same headline as I switched the late evening news off, going to bed. (Surely it's quite a private thing, anyway? No one's business apart from the parents').