Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> Julia Thompson wrote:
> >
> >> 10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely
> >> suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual
> >> baby emerging from her at that moment.
> >
> > And if you *are* going to say something, indicating that you think she's
> > about to pop might not be the best thing, either. There's something
> > irritating about being told you look like you're about to go into labor
> > when you really want to *not* go into labor for another 4 weeks....
> >
> How alien... Here in Brazil pregnant women do everything
> to show the belly. That's another way to be sure: if the woman
> has a big belly, and she's trying hard to show it, then she is
> pregnant, and not noticing it is a deadly sin.
I didn't mind people commenting on the big belly, I just minded
assumptions about the due date. :)
Then again, I'm not exactly a large woman, and I was carrying two
fair-sized babies.
It *was* nice to have the cashiers and baggers in the grocery store
being helpful toward me. And people telling me how wonderful it was.
A good way to show off the belly is to wear a 2-piece outfit that
doesn't cover the belly at all. Do they have fashions like that in
Brazil for pregnant women? The only place I felt completely comfortable
dressing like that was at an event where some people were spending time
walking around totally naked. If it were societally acceptable and easy
to find tops & bottoms that would have fit past 23 weeks of gestation,
that would have been fun. (I'd have used up an awful lot of SPF 50
sunscreen in the process, though.)
Julia
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