Telling a woman how big she looks when she's pregnant is never the right thing to say. We have a friend who makes comments like this. He told me the other day how big I looked (and I'm the smallest I've been out of all the pregnancies) and then he asked me recently if I've had any cravings, and I said, oh, not really - mostly fresh fruit. He goes to me, "You're weird!" Oh, because obviously everything you see in the movies about women wanting to eat gherkin icecream speaks for everyone else's experiences, right? He also couldn't understand why I didn't want to go to a hospital to give birth...

It drives me crazy, because I know he has no idea - they've no children and he just doesn't have any experience with pregancy or or birth or newborns, but still. I'm biting my tongue.

FOR NOW.