Anorexic Looking Woman at Work - Pregnant

I know you're morphing. That's why I said I can't go there with you. You're arguing with yourself, essentially. You're talking about a hypothetical situation that nobody else is arguing about. We're talking about skinny, you're talking about abuse. I know you want to fight but you're spinning your wheels here.

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mismi, I appreciate you more and more each day

ahhhh moral support - how sweet it is :wink: (thanks girls!)

Well, there was this:

In other news, she gave birth to a bouncing baby bowling ball.

Exactly my thought when I read Chai's response. I believe only one person came out and argued/disagreed with what Chai said and now all of a sudden because people discussed about various bodies it was an attack on what she said. Doesn't make sense.

Not attacked.....ignored.


and the one person who is disagreeing is just being difficult for difficulties sake.


ok...uninteresting thread....no one understands why it was started. people making statements about thin pregnant woman....someone comes along to start a discussion, not argument.....to try to make thread interesting.....is ignored.

instead, more talk of how this thread is uninteresting.

Honestly?

I feel like I'm saying something somewhat thought provoking, perhaps to encourage talk of....oh....I don't know.....where to draw the line?

instead, there's no response, just talk of why someone started this thread, and how it's uninteresting.

It's like I'm invisible....like....oh, someone keeps nattering on about something, let's just talk about how interesting this thread is.


jesus, except for me, all this thread has been is people getting getting it locked temporarily, or saying it's uninteresting, or how they didn't gain much weight while preggers.

now even I think it's uninteresting.

screw it.

LMFAO!

Now what the h*ll does that mean

Seriously? Laughing My Fat Ass Off.

Alternate usage: Rolling on the Floor Laughing My Fat Ass Off.

I just saw her again. Actually she's quite pretty, but man is she ever skinny.

I was following up the initial post with the thought that different people look different while they're pregnant even if they're doing all the right things and the fact that most women, who are happy to be pregnant and want the baby, do in fact feel very concerned with doing the best they can for their growing baby and that if there is something that appears in any way abnormal to themselves or others, they've probably already thought of that and are in fact, thinking about it and worrying about it every day in which the circumstance exists - so that it might not be especially the most helpful thing for an outsider to assume that the person is NOT in fact doing the best she can and comments on the obvious difference, making it perhaps the hundredth time she's had it brought to her attention in as many days.

Because, people do seem to feel that pregnant women are public property and that people can pat their belly and coo and ooh and aah and on top of that make comments about their health and well-being that they would never make to any other adult.

I think it's just good to be sensitive and try not to worry a pregnant woman unnecessarily any more than she may already be worried or concerned.

I wasn't ignoring you - I was addressing your specific point and belief that it would be good to say something directly to a person who evidenced the reality of something you perceived might be going on. I don't think anyone who isn't intimately aware with the facts of the situation should - unless specifically asked - UNLESS you are aware of abuse or dangerous negligence and then it makes more sense to go to the proper authorities directly instead of the woman herself. If you ask her about it and she's NOT doing it - she'll be offended, and if you ask her about it and she IS doing it, she'll realize she needs to be more careful about hiding whatever she may be doing that is detrimental.
I only told my story to illustrate the fact that a pregnant woman could look thin and have a healthy baby-so each and every stranger on the street doesn't necessarily need to worry about every small or thin pregnant woman.

I have a friend who topped out at 110 pounds nine months pregnant (she started at 5'1 and 90 pounds (TINY!) and she just delivered a healthy six pound baby girl- her third.

I actually found the whole thread interesting - except the back and forth insulting.

CJ- I also have to tell you that I laughed at something you posted for the first time -the female ted Nugent my space person and the extremely obese pregnant woman swallowed by the leopard...I found them both pretty entertaining.

jenluvsthenuge is a hoot, isn't she?

yeah - you gotta love people like her - at least I do - talk about an original.