PMSL - you've reminded me of the thing I hated about pregnancy! And I didn't get strangers commenting until I was about 9m.
BTW, fundal height is STUPID. My very big boy was tucked away in a small tummy - so small I had five scans in all to check he was growing. Yes, he is, I'm fine, I'm just very tall and rather slim so no wonder I don't have a belly that can double as a tea-tray. (I had one midwife telling me off about fundal height two days after a scan revealed that DS was nice and big.)
I tended to start making comments back at work (because those were the only comments I got: no-one else realised. Actually, some people at work thought I'd been laid off, the only reason they could come up with for a 7+m pg woman looking forward to her last day!).
If I'm looking big, I'd tend to say that they must be due before me.
If I'm looking small, I'd say I was starving myself to get the pregnant modelling contracts.
If they noticed I was talking to the baby... then I'd talk nicely to them.
If they just walked up and touched my tum, I touched their tum back.
If they commented on how I was carrying... I was quite pleased they'd not noticed or decided not to say I'd put an inch or two on my thighs too. About as much as I'd put on my breasts, and those smallest possible feeding bras never really were filled unless I had two cloth breast pads in there too.
Oddly enough, I got a few comments about 6m and then they just stopped. Before I could really enjoy myself. Some people are so mean. I want to be pregnant again and have a whole bunch of new people to teach what not to say to a pregnant woman.
Tell them you find their comments hurtful and inappropriate and ask them if they'd like you to comment on their bodies constantly. Seriously - you go to work to do a job, not make personal comments about people. If you've been discussing details of your pg with them, stop. I found this the most helpful strategy to shut down unwanted discussion with work colleagues. I just didn't discuss it with them in the first place. To me it was a personal issue and not something I wanted to broadcast at work. It depends on your work environment but I never brought it up. It didn't stop the questions and stupid huge/massive//big/twins comments but I always gave minimal and vague answers and most people got the hint after a while.
hun. A big baby is a good thing believe me, once it's born, you'll be wanting it to put on heaps of weight. (Not saying you'll have a big baby, just that if you do, there's an upside).
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hun. A big baby is a good thing believe me, once it's born, you'll be wanting it to put on heaps of weight. (Not saying you'll have a big baby, just that if you do, there's an upside).
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