Category: Parent Talk
Was reading an article on Babycenter about people and the terms they hated in reference to being pregnant. Here are my least favorite:
Knocked Up- Sounds like a 14-year-old teenager who got drunk one night, boned a kid around her age (or older) and some how ended up with a kid knocking to get out
Preggers- Ew? Sounds like somebody with bad Grammar and six teeth
Preggo- I can just picture a pregnant woman chuggin' down jars of Preggo spaghetti sauce in the middle of the night
With Child- What era are you living in to useThat term?
Expecting- Again, old-fashioned
Bun In The Oven- That is a baby, not a dinner roll, folks.
Fetus- That's a living, human, precious baby in there, not a Thing or an It
So, let's hear yours...
I never thought about it really. Fetus doesn't bother me, as it's medical, but I suppose the others are a bit silly. Expecting" is kind of odd too. I mean "she's expecting". What, company, money, the plumber to come and fix her pipes? Reminds me of an unfinished sentence.
what should be banned is banning ...?
This site has more posts about banning than even Facebook I bet.
Irony because this site's existence is because of the openness of the Internet, but hey whatever
Robozork, you take things too seriously. I doubt Brandy actually thinks various speech should be totally forbidden, she's just expressing her annoyance with these particular terms.
And Brandy, I agree with you. I guess I never would have thought about all the terms society uses for being pregnant, until I read this. I can't think of any of my own off the top of my head either, but yes, the ones you mentioned are pretty damn annoying, or make the baby sound like less than it is.
Gotta love Alicia. Thank God for decent CL's. I did not mean that if you use those terms, you should be banned. I meant the terms themselves are cold and silly and I don't like them. Here are some more, just to piss some folks off I guess:
Titty Milk- it's breast milk, we're not five anymore, folks
Pop or explode- as in about to pop, she gave birth, there was no nuclear warfare
I agree. preggo just annoys the shit out of me as does the phraise knocked up, as stated above. Titty milk? what the heck is that supposed to be? No, breast milk, people. Hello. Sheesh ... um ... Buns in the oven. That one made me laugh, but I can see why it's annoying. and preggers ... No, too weird.
preggo sauce--abortion in a tomato sauce jar? yum. lmao jk
some of them do anoy me, but they don't really bother me, i gues i'd have to be big pregnant to understand it. as i've never made it past 3 months, i'll never know.
good topick brandy
I hate the word preggers with a passion Lol it just sounds horrid. Anyway I agree with most of the words that brandy mentioned but I don't mind fetus so much I guess. Yes, I understand it's a baby, a living human, etc, but it is still a developing baby, so technically it's not a full blown baby... Just yet, I guess that's my logic.
I told SisterDawn I wasn't pissed I was just being pithy sarcastic, and, I'm a man so have no rights to say one way or the other ...
oh my gosh you all have forgotten the all time worst one. baby bump. how coy and stupid. she is showing. gher stomach is big. a new life is growing in there. baby bump? it sounds like a zit or something.
I agree with all posts on here. What I hate is when someone says "me and my wife are going to have a kid in April." Of course someone asks, "Well, do you know what it is?"
"Yes, it's a girl."
Well, why didn't you just say my wife and I are going to have a girl in April? I just hate the term kid. It's a baby. You are going to have a baby! Kid sounds so cold like it's unwanted. Maybe I'm being silly.
Well, I'll stand up for the terms that the rest of you are putting down. I don't see anything wrong with any of them at all, quite the opposite in fact, I think it would be an extremely dull world if all we could ever call breast milk was breast milk, or pregnancy pregnancy. We have a wonderfully elastic language at our disposal so I see nothing wrong with using it. So all those in favor say "Up the duff" and stick two fingers up at the dissenters!
Dan.
"up the duff," actually sounds kinda cool. Strangely... I'm sure the British might think it was just ascrude as us Americans using the term preggers. Lol.
lol never heard the bump one... what about slang words 4 the parents? like instead of saying "thats my son's father", they say
THATS JUST MY "BABY DADDY!!!!!!!!"
OR THATS MY SONS MOTHER,
THATS JUST MY "BABY MAMA!!!!"
I THINK ABOUT IT AND YES ILL B THE FIRST TO ADMIT THAT THATS JUST MY "BABY DADDY!!!" BUT IN THE LOGICAL SENCE THATS MY SON'S FATHER BUT STILL.... O WELL....
Good ones, Kristabell.
I call that just down-right sloppy english which... never mind. Another term that is really reall old fashioned is when people would say "she's in the family way," meaning that a woman was pregnant. Just another term for you!
"in the famliy way?" wow, that's a new one to me. I've heard the one about the bump, and that just sounds kind of silly.
I have to agree with all of this and the baby bump one is hte worst but I haven't heard of preggers. lol I've heard preggo, and I'm the same way with the preggo thing
Yeah, it's really really old "in the family way" that is. LOL, let's get with the times. I just say pregnant. It's just simple and factual.
Hahaha, Dan, your post amused me. Never heard baby bump before. Ugh. Kristabell, you raise some good points. I guess there are just as stupid terms for parents as for the baby itself. The terms you mentioned sound so...ghetto. Ugh.
In the family way? Forgot about that one. Yuck. One that is old-fashioned, but that I don't mind quite as much is, "She's with child." I guess that's accurate, as the child is always with her, but it still sounds rather old-fashioned.
Ugh, With Child. Sounds worst than "in the family way."
LOL, I can't help but laugh at all these.
I'm not to politically correct when it comes to language. One that I have heard is popped a kiddo, as in "She popped a kiddo last year."
Oh, that's awful!!!! I hate that one!
geesh I never thought about any of this I usually said that i was going to give birth or have a baby or become a mom. how boring is that?
lol u all are funny, but i must agree with everyone, I hated being called preggo...I am not a jar of spaghetti sauce!!!
i forgot one that i hated. "he impregnated his girlfriend." i mean it is what he did, but it just sounds nasty.
Ugh... (Cringes) Impregnated. Gross! Sounds so icky and alien-ish. Like an alien put a baby in my belly; it impregnated me. (Shudders)