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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Question to team green mamas all are welcome though
Are you offended by use of the word it? On Jenns post I almost typed
"Excited to find out if it is a boy or a girl!"
I don't mean it in an offensive way, does IT bother you? My coworker yelled at me once for saying that before the mom had found out if it was a boy or a girl.
Re: Question to team green mamas all are welcome though
I never really thought twice about it....but I guess you could say "Excited to find out if 'your baby' is a boy or girl" , rather than it.
I think saying "your baby" and "the baby" got old and I am lazy!
this. i think people who are concerned about calling their baby "it" need to pick their wedgie cause their panties are definitely in a bunch.
it's not a big deal at all....and always always always, when you announce if "it's" a boy or a girl, it's ALWAYS "it's a girl" or "it's a boy"...it's never "baby is a boy!"
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
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jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
I wouldn't and didn't find it offensive. More people asked "do you know what you're having?". I think there are way more offensive things said to pregnant women than refering to the baby as "it".
For example:
"Well aren't you looking fat"
"You look like you are running out of room for your shirt"
"At least your face looks skinny"
"We can hear you waddling now"
Those are just a few things I remember being told.....
I looked like this at 39 wks.
Thank you random strangers for feeling the need to comment on my ever growing belly.
No I call baby an "it" all the time.. haha
My mom on the other hand was having a fit when she heard me say something about baby and I called "it", an "it".
#1-BFP 08-22-09 ~ M/C 08-31-09 at 5 weeks 6 days
#2-BFP 08-6-11 ~ Due 04/18 ~ born via c-section April 22, 2012
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I don't give a damn, LOL. "The baby" is fine. "It" is fine. "He" is fine. "She" is fine. "He or she" is fine. "They" is fine. "Zie" and all those recently-made-up gender-neutral pronouns are all fine.
I find myself saying "he or she" the most, personally, but none of it bothers me.
(Also, people who ARE bothered by "it" remind me of The Knights Who Say 'Ni' from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Just sayin'.)
lol those are awesome, and you look so cute pg!
I think this is the thing that I will most hate about being pg - people already things it's totally ok to comment on my size now (I'm short/petite), I can't imagine how much worse it's going to get. Like, do people really think they are being original? With friends it's funny/cute and I don't mind, but with random people, I just want to say "WTH?!"
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Thanks. Luckily very few people decided it was ok to just touch the belly. Most people just said random things.
BFP 1/22/12 | Ectopic pregnancy found 2/14/12 | Methotrexate to complete m/c 2/15/12
Dude, if I ever find out I'm having a genital-questionable baby, I'm totally going to use this!!
(Green and yellow are the traditional colors for "we don't know yet" people)
"team purple" is used for twins - one boy, one girl.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.