To us outsiders, being pregnant seems like such a beautiful experience. Months of researching baby names, learning about the human body during doctor's appointments, and bringing a new life into this world. Honestly, it sounds so magical.
But the everyday life of pregnancy is so much more than that. And way less glamorous than the movies want us to believe. Stylish maternity clothes are really expensive and hard to find, and that "glow" that everyone keeps mentioning is more sweat than sprinkles.
To paint you a more accurate picture of what it's really like to grow a human being in your belly, Bored Panda has compiled a list of honest posts that mothers and their loved ones made about them expecting.
#1 Unsolicited Advice
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#2 Feelin’ Like A Whole Chicken
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#3 Oops
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#4 The Next Person That Asks Me How My Pregnancy Is Going Will Just Be Shown This Picture
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#5 My Wife Is 39 Weeks Pregnant And Really Wants To See Deadpool 2
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#6 Pregnancy Is Weird
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#7 Pregnant In A Heat Wave
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#8 My 39-Week Pregnant Wife Went To The Store To “Get Stuff For Dinner”. This Is What She Came Home With
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#9 My Pregnant Wife Had To Dress Up As A Superhero For Work Today
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#10 Nailed It
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#11 Pregnancy Struggles
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#12 Looking All Over The House For A Good While... And Freaking Out Since Already Running Late, Finally Found My Damn Keys
Common side effect of parenting while pregnant.
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#13 My Wife Is Pregnant And She Thought It Would Be Funny To Take A Picture Of Our Dog's Feet Looking Like They Are Her's
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#14 Pregnancy Swelling
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#15 A Gift My Husband Made For Me To Use When Strangers/Family Get Too Grabby Towards My Belly Without Asking First
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#16 My Pregnant Wife Wanted Pancakes In The Middle Of The Night. I Delivered
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#17 Pregnancy Struggles
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#18 My Pregnant Wife Has Been Practicing Her Swaddling Technique On The Dog
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#19 My Pregnant Wife Is Practicing Her Swaddling. Skittles Isn't A Fan
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#20 My Friend's Wife Is Pregnant. She Got Cravings For Sweet And Spicy
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#21 Before And After
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#22 Pregnant Wife Ordered Cheese Fries, This Isn’t Going To End Well
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#23 Pregnant Problems
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#24 Pregnancy Problems
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#25 I Heard “You’re So Big!” And “You’re So Small!” Literally Within The Same Day In Pregnancy And I Was Like Wut
What is it about our baby bumps that makes people think they can give us their UNSOLICITED comments and suggestions? Here's a tip: Just wish us and our baby good health and safe delivery. What's the worst unsolicited comment you've heard about your pregnancy?
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#26 Let's Say I "Hypothetically" Forgot To Take A Pyrex Lid Out Of The Oven Before I Preheat It And It "Hypothetically" Melted
What would be the best way to get the plastic off the hypothetical oven rack? Or would one need to just throw the whole damn oven out? Asking for a friend.
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#27 Preggo Brain At Its Finest. Opened My Front Door This Morning To Find These In It
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#28 Things Pregnant Women Text Their Husbands. I Will Probably Just End Up Having Tea
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#29 I Have To Stuff My Nose With Cotton While The Asiago Bagels Bake And Cool Because The Smell Of So Many Asiagos Just About Kills This Preggo Mama
Last time I threw up and this time I could feel myself getting sick again so I did the only thing I could thing of to save myself. It worked!!! I may have to put baking Asiago bagels on hold from here on out until after I've had Solomon. Ironically I've never had such trouble with nausea and smell sensitivity as I'm having now with my first boy. Everyone has always said theirs was worse with girls! Go figure mine is worse with a boy! And I thought I'd get some relief.
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#30 I Sent This Series Of Texts To My Hubby Just Now
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#31 Pregnancy Is Beautiful They Said. You'll Glow They Said
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#32 Pregnancy Probs
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#33 My Husband And I Took Our 5 Year Old To The Amusement Park For The First Time Today. I'm 9 Months Pregnant, This Was My Favorite Ride
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#34 My Wife Sneaking Up On Me
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#35 8 Months Pregnant And Came Out Of The Bank To Find This... (I’m The Blue Car)
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#36 I Texted My 36 Week Pregnant Wife To Ask How She Was Feeling, This Was The Photo I Got In Response
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#37 Pregnancy Brain Is So Real. My Daughters Daycare Lady Sent Me This. I’m So Embarrassed
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#38 Cracking Up At The Hilarious (& Oh So Relatable) Difference Of My Undies From March vs. Today At 37 Weeks
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#39 My Husband Found Me Hiding In The Bathroom, Pants Down, Shoveling Cookie Dough Ice Cream In My Mouth And Hiding From Our Kids. This Is Pregnancy (29weeks)
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#40 Third Trimester Probz
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#41 Yummy
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#42 Just A Pregnant Lady Making Smores At 10pm
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#43 Pregnancy Brain
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#44 One Of My Pregnancy Cravings Got The Better Of Me Yesterday. Also Before You Ask, Yes I Went Into A Movie Theater For This, And Only This
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#45 How Many Breakfasts Have You Had Today? This Is My Third
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#46 The Struggle Is Real
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#47 Pregnancy Hormones
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#48 Pregnancy Struggles
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#49 Who Forgot Their Shoes After Their Appointment?
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#50 Technically This Conversation With My Husband Happened Yesterday, But I Swear It Feels Like I Have A Similar One With Him Everyday
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#51 My Pregnant Wife Asked Me To Get Her Runts, But She Didn't Quite Want All Of Them
She DIDN'T want the banana ones.
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#52 We've Officially Entered The Last Trimester And I'm Getting To Big To Do Things Like Shave My Legs Without Having To Take A Nap Afterwards
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#53 Night Out At The Duke. Sober Driver
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#54 Had Any Weird Pregnancy Cravings? Nah.. Unless You Think Jalapeno Cheetos Dipped In Peach Milkshake Is Weird
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#55 That Moment You Realize You're So Tired You Put Your Pants On Backwards
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#56 H2o = Really Important Ingredient. Our House Is Full Of Smoke! Sadie Has My Back Though - She Said, It's Okay Mommy, Just Stop, Drop & Roll
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#57 Im Not Saying That She Has Pregnancy Brain... I Mean It’s Also Possible That She Made Chocolate Waffles. Either Way It Smells Like A Delicious Campfire In Our Kitchen
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#58 Pregnancy Cankles. Frantically Drinking Water, But They're Still Swollen. In The Bed To Let Them Chill While Patrick Gets Honey-Do Requests To Finally Start Hanging Photos In The Bedroom
He's a good husband. :) (She says as listening to him complain about literally every frame he's put up and his problems with their hanging back options. lol).
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#59 Pregnant Women Problems
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#60 You Know You Have Pregnancy Brain When You Pull The Butter Back Out And Find This! Lol I Don't Even Know How I Am Able To Live Day To Day Anymore
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#61 Pickle Juice Popsicles
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#62 Pregnancy Problems
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#63 When You Put Laundry Detergent In The Fridge
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#64 My Pregnant Wife Sent Me To The Store At 9:30 Pm Last Night To Get These Items
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#65 I Thought Pregnancy Brain Was Fake. It’s Not. To Make Scrambled Eggs This Morning, I Cracked One Egg In A Bowl And The Other On A Plate
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#66 Too Hot To Wear Pants And Dresses Are Mostly All That Fits Me So I Had To Figure Out A Way To Shave My Legs While Not Being Able To Bend Over
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#67 When My Friend Messages Me To Ask How Pregnant Life Is Going
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#68 Help Your Wife Out
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#69 My Pregnant Wife Woke Me Up At 3 Am To Run To The Store To Buy These After Seeing Them Online
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#70 Pregnant Wife Problems
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#71 Shaving Blind At 9 Months Pregnant
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#72 Either A Bear Or My Pregnant Wife Got Into My Protein Bars
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#73 Pregnancy Is Beautiful
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#74 First Trimester Food Aversions Got Me Texting My Husband Like This Every Day
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#75 Pregnancy Problems
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#76 My Wife Is Pregnant And These Type Of Texts Are Not Uncommon
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#77 Preggo Brain Strikes Again. This Is What Happens When You Forget To Put Eggs In Your Waffle Batter Oopsy. I Swear These Days My Brain Is Mush
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#78 The Rings Are Off
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#79 Baby Is The Size Of A Cantaloupe, And Mom Is Feeling Personally Victimized By Her Fitness Tracker
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#80 The Perils Of Baking With A Pregnant Belly
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#81 35 Weeks Pregnant Today, And I've Had To Give Up And Take My Wedding Ring Off Because Of Swelling And It Hurts To Move My Fingers. Joys Of A Summer Baby
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#82 No, I Am Not Enjoying Contractions. Also, I Had A Baby This Morning
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#83 So. Delicious. This May Be My Supper As Well
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#84 Oops, Popped A Button
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#85 Well There’s That
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#86 I Have Never Been Sooo Mad. This Person Parked So Close To Me I Had To Climb Across My Passenger Seat. So I Left Them A Nice Little Note
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#87 Pregnancy Brain Fail!! I Turned On The Slow Cooker With The Roast In It For Supper Tonight. But I Forgot To Plug It In
Good thing I caught it now and not later.
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#88 Just A Scene From A Pregnant Ladies Horror Movie
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#89 Journaling While Pregnant: A Study In Creative Brevity
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#90 Do They Have Pringles Anonymous Meetings? Asking For Me
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#91 “Honey I Left Your Dinner In The Microwave” And They Say Pregnancy Brain Isn’t A Thing
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#92 My Pregnant Wife Went To Buy Some Milk And Baby Formula
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#93 "Let's Watch Football And Eat Nachos Together All Day!" Not
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#94 The Natural Progression Of Life, As Seen In The Bathroom Cabinet Layers
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#95 When You’re Pregnant And Craving Sushi
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#96 Tried To Crochet My Daughter A Fish. My Pregnant Brain Thought It Was Nice
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#97 Eating For Two
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#98 What Happens When You Have A Pregnant Wife At Home, And You Leave Your Phone In Your Car For An Hour
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#99 Food Aversions Have Been Real Lately! I Was Feeling Like Some Chicken Tendies With Every Dipping Sauce. Husby Delivered
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#100 I'm Still New At This Pregnant Lady Stuff... Turns Out You Can't Leave Your Prenatal Gummies In Your Car
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#101 Apple Cinnamon Cake Fail... This Is The Result Of 12x's The Amount Of Baking Powder And Baking Soda!! In All Fairness, It Didn't Taste Half Bad!! It Literally Popped & Deflated
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#102 What's A Pregnant Girl To Do?
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#103 31 Week Nursery! We Hired A Design Professional But It Was So Worth It
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#104 A New Pregnancy Low? Or High?
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#105 These Are My Keys. I Unlocked My Door With My Arms Full With The Intent Of Coming Back To Get My Keys Out Of The Door Once I Put My Stuff Down
Well 3 hours later after our March is Reading Month kickoff assembly I noticed my keys sticking out of the doorknob! Whoops!
I’m ready for spring break but maybe I can blame pregnancy brain.
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#106 31 Weeks With This Big Baby Of Mine
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#107 I Got This Coat Because I'm Growing Out Of My Normal Jacket. I've Been Wearing It Too Long For These Tags To Still Be On It
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