When a woman is pregnant, it seems everyone—from friends to strangers—has a question to ask her. I’ve talked about the top three questions I got asked during my pregnancies, but my friend Sarah de Diego from Journeys of the Zoo, who was pregnant with triplets, got even more questions. Today, we’re swapping guest posts for each other. I’m writing about growing up in the country over at Journeys of the Zoo and she’s here to share a little bit about what it was like to carry triplets…
While pregnant with The Kids, I heard my fair share of unsolicited comments.
Carrying around a litter of beings (three to be exact) appears to have a strange effect on people.
It tends to make them check their mind at the door and say “silly” things. I’m being kind, this is a family blog.
Seeing as I’m a lover of all things “Top Ten,” I thought I’d give you the goods on what people came up with.
Top Ten Questions to Ask a Woman Pregnant with Triplets
10. Is there a history of triplets in your Family?
9. You remind me of that Octomom.
8. Will you dress them all the same?
7. Are you sure that the boy and girl aren’t identical?
6. My friend was a twin.
5. You’ll be busy, you better rest up now.
4. I always dreamed of having Triplets.
3. You’re huge. Imagine how big you’ll be in x number of weeks.
2. Planning on breastfeeding? You know you only have two breasts.
and the #1 comment I heard…
1. How did that happen?
Cue music.
Might be time for schools to re-evaluate their sex-ed curriculum and actually teach people about sex!? After hearing comment #1 for the 4,567th time, we got creative and came up with some responses. Most of them would make my father blush so leave a comment with your email address if you really want to know.
One that I can share was, “Don’t drink the water in [town]”.
Fooled them every.single.time.
What would you want to know?
11 Comments
Hee hee I love #2! I have twins and I can’t even carrying~let alone raising~ triplets!
Nikki
www.rushedmommy.com
It’s true, people get excited around all pregnant people, and add twins or triplets into the mix and they go a little bit nuts.
Jenna Em
Hilarious! My favorite question about my twins, which I still get, is oh a boy and a girl, you’re done! Thanks for making that decision for me. Nope, we’re not done! I want more lovely babies one day.
How did you not burst out laughing when people asked #7?
I’m a twin, with a fraternal twin BROTHER, but my parents got asked all the time if we were identical. Most people don’t know much about twins so don’t realize that only identical twins are the same gender.
Hi, Sarah…yep but ny friend has triplets…all three are girls. I actually became friends with her because of the girls! It’s cool…and you learn a lot of stuff from them, like children play better in twos than in threes. And their personality is something they are born with. Each will be different from the others and it has nothing to do with how you are parenting. Have fun!
I can testify to “children play better in twos than in threes” – I came from a family of three (two boys and a girl) but we always played in twos. One of us was always left ot. 🙂 And yes, personality comes at birth; I’ve been having fun observing that with my girls, even though they aren’t triplets. 🙂
It was really fun writing this Bonnie. Thanks so much for having me and sharing a special time in your life; Growing up on The Farm.
Besos, Sarah
Blogger at Journeys of The Zoo
Thanks for having me and for sharing these! 🙂
Hilarious – I especially like #6 for how relevant it is to absolutely nothing. Thanks for sharing!
I laughed through this too. #6 is definitely funny.