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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a rule. Never ever comment about someone being pregnant until they mention it. It doesn’t matter how pregnant they look. [/quote]

My favorite pregnancy story from work (not a bad one!):

I work with a lot of men, engineering types.  Nerdy and smart and not paying attention to you socially at all.  I was probably 34 weeks pregnant and walked past a row of offices I don't normally walk past.  One of the guys, who was maybe in his late 20s, saw me, stopped short and ran away.  One of my younger female coworkers came up to me later and said "Charles came to me to ask if you were pregnant" and she was laughing.  Because I was HUGE and it was very obvious.  But I went by and told him he absolutely did the right thing!  I found it really endearing that even when it felt so so obvious to me he still double checked with someone first.[/quote]

Ha. Something similar happened to me, only it was an older man, head of another department, whom I worked with only a couple times a month. I thought it was very nice of him to ask my least-nosy colleague (whom he knows I'm close to) instead of either asking me himself or a seeking out a more gossipy colleague. He's got 6 kids so I'm sure he knew perfectly well, but was just being polite. Nice guy.

However, for my second pregnancy, I decided that it was better to just tell people or tell a couple gossipy people and let them spread the news, rather than watch people squirm awkwardly trying not to ask. I also got in the habit, when I saw an obviously pregnant colleague I hadn't seen in a while, to just say "so, what's new with you?" and give them an opening to say something. [/quote]

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