Oh my goodness, how rude! You NEVER assume someone is pregnant and say anything about it, let alone tell someone they have protruding love handles! I think if it had been me I would have definitely taken that rolling pin to his head!

Hysterical blog. I'm linking to The Food Whore, fo sho. Keep it coming.

I did that once...to my aunt...I live a good distance away from my family and it was about 4 years since I had seen anyone. My mother had told me someone was pregnant, but I forgot...until I saw my aunt "Oh my, I forgot mom told me you were pregnant." She actually made like she was going to smack my face...to this day I'm embarrased and ashamed...I was old enough to know better!

I've seen people make this mistake and have vowed never, ever to ask a woman if she's pregnant without being told. I was recently at a friend's son's Bar Mitzvah. The Bar Mitzvah boy's aunt was wearing a dress waisted just under her breasts that [really, really] looked like a fancy maternity dress.

Needless to say, it wasn't a maternity dress and she wasn't pregnant. I'm so glad that I didn't say anything - I'd thought about it despite my vow. At the end of the night, I heard her say that she was going to burn the dress.

I only guess a woman is pregnant if she's rounded but not at all overweight, wearing what looks to be maternity wear AND I can see that her belly button has popped out.

I work with small children so we have a LOT of pregnant-for-the-second-time mommies. I wait for them to tell me if I can't see the tell-tail-bellybutton.

I broke my pelvis and was laid up for several weeks this past spring, gained about 20 pounds from the inactivity and my ever-so-delicate roommate stopped mid-sentence in an unrelated conversation: "wait a minute, you're not pregnant, are you?" Which I might forgive if he were not 62-and-should-absolutely-know-better.

Above all else, MEN should never make such comments to women. EVER. Poor girl. When I was newly pregnant that would have had me in tears. Hormones, you know!

Some people have absolutely no manners or common sense at all. This reminds me of when my sister-in-law was pregnant with her first child....she was working as a waitress and a customer actually asked her (and she was quite visibly 7 months pregnant at the time) "Are you pregnant or are you just FAT?"

These kind of people deserve a smack upside the head.

I'm now 38 weeks pregnant and have been thrilled, from the start, when people can tell I am. I'm used to being a very scrawny woman, extremely slender, so all this extra weight is a bit shocking. I'd far rather someone know I'm pregnant than think I'm overweight. . .when ever people can obviously tell, like when I am offered seats on the subway, it makes me very happy. Of course it's quite obvious now, but at the start it really made me feel good.

I think I'm like this cause there is no way anyone could have ever thought I was pregnant before. . but now even my face is chubby and round!

Somehow, once you are pregnant, your body belongs to the community at large. Complete strangers will not think twice of placing their hands on your belly and goo-goo-ing in your general direction.

Now that I've been a parent a long time, I figure that sort of inappropriate behavior during pregnancy just prepares a parent-to-be for scrutiny from that same subset of the community at large she will receive once the child is born, because she will never be able to do anything right.