Posts by Sarah Harris5

I look pretty youthful (not that I’m bragging or anything), so people usually guess I'm five years younger than I actually am. Basically, they think I'm 20. Now when I'm walking around town, everyone eyes my belly, looks up at my face, and then looks back down at my stomach like, "Wait, she's that young and already pregnant?" 😂😂
Does this happen to anyone else?

Honestly, when I tell people I’m planning to give birth in Chicago, they look at me like I have three heads. Then you’ve got these guys chiming in with "advice" despite having zero clue how anything involving hospitals or families actually works...
next time, I'm just staying home for the whole thing 🤣

My girlfriends are constantly grilling me about my benefits, and the worst part is they forget everything every single time. I'm just gonna text them all and start sending out PDFs ☕
I’ve realized it’s honestly better to just stay away from people. Once they start getting on my nerves with their comments, I can't stop obsessing over why I didn't just snap back at them instead of playing nice.

copperfox172 said:So, I head to my dentist to get some work done on a tooth. I ask for a local anesthetic to dull the pain, and she just looks at me with this cynical smirk and goes, "...well, how are you planning on giving birth?!" 😲 How is she supposed to not get on my nerves? 😠

That is so unprofessional! I’d be looking for a new dentist immediately

And regarding those weird dreams: my husband was complaining one morning that I kept waking him up in my sleep by rambling about strollers... he said I was just mumbling "stroller, stroller..." over and over.
That was before we actually bought one, so thankfully the sleep-talking stopped once we did.🤣
Poor guy—I spent months badgering him about it during the day, and then apparently I was still hitting him with it at night too (he told me he was sick of hearing about strollers, and I tried to respect that, but my subconscious clearly had other plans).

As for the belly, people are always judging—saying it's way too big or way too small...

But this part really ticked me off: most of our furniture is light-colored (basically all white), and then my friends come over and act like it's a crime, saying, "Oh man, good luck cleaning that, the baby is going to wreck everything!" It's like they think babies are born covered in spray paint or something...

Just remembered this:
My neighbor—this retiree who probably weighs a solid 350 lbs—is screaming her head off in the hallway so loud the whole building shakes.
Like, chill out, lady, how are you even doing?

So, I’ve been listening to all this unsolicited advice lately and figured I’d do a quick Google search to see what the experts say.
My best tip? Just cut contact with those people to the absolute bare minimum. Honestly, who cares? If you need an excuse, just tell them you’re exhausted, or claim you have terrible acid reflux—that works wonders if you're trying to dodge a lunch meeting.
Or just tell them you're busy running errands all over town and don't have a spare second.
Period.

Dana Murphy said:Honestly, nothing bugs me more than trying to sleep while pregnant 🙄
I just can't get comfortable—I've got like ten pillows everywhere... I'm constantly tossing and turning because my hips start aching after a bit 🙄
Then, once I finally settle down and drift off, some damn mosquito starts buzzing right by my ear 🙂 or, you know, the usual—I have to run to the bathroom 😠

It’s like she’s reading my mind. I only use three pillows—one for my head, a pregnancy pillow for my legs, and a tiny one that basically dances around my face all night🙂
One night I was up moving window blinds, opening and closing everything, shifting blankets... it’s a whole damn production