Can we stop using the words "Baby Bump" when referring to pregnant women's abdomens?

[KitchenWitch]

:grr:

[skygazer]

1. Oh, man, that is one of the most annoying phrases

I'm with you. :puke:

[SeattleGirl]

2. I hate the phrase too.

Damned media keeps thinking that none of us are grownups, and can't handle anything over a 5 year old's level.

[sarge43]

3. Yes ma'am.

It's condescending and childish.

[Bucky]

4. Is "tha pooj" acceptable?

I call mine "the kegpack", but I'm a dude, so it's funny.

[joeybee12]

5. Well, I saw it about 20 times in stories about the Spirit Awards...

...and Anjelina Jolie...you'd have to start a letter-writing campaign to LOTS of news outlets to make any headway against this.

[seemunkee]

6. Bun in the oven?

[MassLiberal]

8. don't care for that one, either

sorry :shrug:

[China_cat]

50. I like the one used in the black community here in Charleston.

'Wearing one'.

[Taverner]

7. I thought the baby bump was a mini-baby boom

Like what we're going through now...

[youthere]

34. I thought it was the result of dropping kids on their heads.

[Bryan]

9. On the bright side, the use of "preggers" seems to have declined!

"Preggers". Gives me chills.

[Silver Swan]

30. I agree

"Preggers" is stupid. But "prego," which I've also seen, is even worse.

[MrsMatt]

10. For some reason I think the term came

from Great Britain.

But I could be wrong.

I find "preggers", "knocked up" and "bun in the oven" more annoying.

[mitchum]

12. That's exactly where it came from...

many of the editors, producers, and writers for the gape-mouthed Yahoo celebrity media in the US are Limeys.

[Jade Fox]

54. Yes, it is the norm in England....

to refer to a pregnant woman's expanding stomach as her Bump.

I don't see anything wrong with it.

[mitchum]

11. "Baby bump", "veggies", "sammie"...I hate that garbage...

I didn't go through adolescence just so I could wind up talking like a goddamn five year old

[Redstone]

18. Damn, Advanced Search is turned off, because I wanted to refer you to my rant about

not only "veggies," but also "sammies."

I'll go hungry before I'll use such baby-talk terms in public.

Redstone

[mitchum]

20. Redstone, I remember that rant...and it was righteous!

I'm in complete agreement with you

[Iris]

42. darn. I would have loved to have seen that one!

[Random_Australian]

21. Hey, to some of us those last two are accent, not baby-speech.

Actually, hearing an American say it would be like hearing baby-speech, but us Aussies use a lot of contractions.

For example: uni, footy, vegies, undies, polies, pokies, arvo/arvy, Aussie, bickie, barbie, chewie, cuppa, kindy, metho, rego, sickie, sunnies, Tassie.

Even using 'yeah' instead of 'yes' and "fuck me, what a fucker" instead of "goodness gracious".

:)

[Redstone]

22. But you can do that, because you're Aussies.

Redstone

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. How about Fetus Mound?

[BarenakedLady]

14. Spawn Pod?

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

15. It's not as bad as va-jay-jay, which really makes me want to barf, but

it still creeps me out. Just in a different way.

[Redstone]

23. Forgive me for being ignorant, but what's "va-jay-jay?" (Though I suspect I don't want to know.)

Redstone

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

24. Oh, bless your ignorance!

Here's what it means and how it evolved:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/fashion/28vajayjay.html

[Redstone]

16. I've never used it, but if I did, I'd be happy to stop doing so. It's one of those phrases

that is just so fucking cutesy that it makes you want to vomit, yes?

(As if pregnant women needed ONE MORE reason to want to vomit.)

Redstone

[KitchenWitch]

19. exactly

I HATE cutesy. With the blinding hot burning passion of a million suns

[JVS]

17. gestation gut

[youthere]

35. That sounds like something cattle get from eating too much alfalfa.

[ashling]

25. I didn't know we were doing that

BTW, who is this "we"

maybe I don't watch enough TV
:rofl:

[AngryAmish]

26. no

[GigiMommy]

27. Sounds like something a guy made up...

at least they don't say "Baby Gut"!

[yellowcanine]

28. I thought a "baby bump" was a small baby boom.

[yellowcanine]

29. We always called it a "bun in the oven". Is that better?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

31. not as long as they are delivered through their va-jay-jays. No.

Sorry. I think a Doodle started it all.

[grace0418]

32. Doesn't really bother me. But then I have my own pet peeves so I can

understand.

[FloridaJudy]

33. I think it only applies

To that week or two when everyone is speculating "Is she pregnant, or did she overindulge in the burritos?". And only on ultra skinny women who wear tight clothes, when it's just - well - a "bump", and not an obviously gravid belly. By the time one switches to maternity clothes, the bump business needs to be retired.

As to va-jay-jay - Ewwwww! :puke: As a retired OB/GYN nurse, I'd never encountered that one before - thank the gods. I thought I'd heard every cutesy name women came up with for their genitalia, but that one is particularly nauseating. Is it the female equivalent of a pen-nay-nay? Jeez. I've heard women refer to the male organ as the "winky stick" - which always makes me cringe - but va-jay-jay? That euphemism is particularly puke-worthy.

I should hope most of us know the correct anatomical names for our body parts by kindergarten at the latest, but I remember the time a colleague's preschool daughter complained that "My vulva burns when I urinate".

The child's teacher had to look up the words. This is one sexually benighted society. Sad.

[I Have A Dream]

36. I just told my husband yesterday how annoying I find that term.

x(

[bumblebee1]

37. Baby bump just sounds idiotic.

It makes being pregnant sound like a fashion accessory rather than a life changing event.

[Shell Beau]

38. So are you making fun of my baby bump?

:mad:




























:P

[mainegreen]

39. How about remarkably spherical with fetus?

:hide:

[Iris]

43. How about "pregnant" with no reference to the body at all.

How hard is that?


Angela Jolie is pregnant.

instead of

Angela Jolie is sporting a baby bump.

[mainegreen]

44. Well, if your selling tabloids, pretty hard.

They're not supposed to read like technical manuals.

And to be frank, it's pretty hard to refer to pregnancy without referring to the body.

[Iris]

45. No, it's not. "Angelina Jolie is pregnant". We all know what that means.

But if we must refer to the body, why not say she has a baby in her uterus?

[mainegreen]

46. Because language is more fun when playful?

Baby bump carries no negative connotations outside of purely subjective personal preference.

[Iris]

51. It's stupid and immature.

But I'm feeling very cantankerous today, so don't mind me!

x(

[mainegreen]

52. You wouldn't believe though ...

or maybe you would, the number of products named '<something> bump' or 'bump <something>' at the all natural baby store my wife works at. It seems to be pretty well embraced. And this is a store that has a political philosophy in line with that espoused here.

Perhaps it's an age/generational difference of perspective?

:shrug:

[gbate]

40. It's only a bump for a month or so, anyway.

Then it's more like baby basketball.

[Iris]

41. I vote not just yes, but HELL yes.

I've hated it ever since it started.

Naomi Wolfe's new book suggest there's a correlation between 9-11 and the the obsession with celebrity pregnancies and the obsessive watching for the "baby bumps"

[skypilot]

47. And when "Baby Bump" goes...

...let's hope it takes "Baby Daddy" and "Baby Mama" with it.

[mak3cats]

48. How about "Parasite paunch?"

Sorry; couldn't help it!

[Hobarticus]

55. Snort...how 'bout "fetus foothill"?

This is fun!

[China_cat]

49. Well, it's annoying, but not nearly as bad as the woman

who worked (for a very short time) with us at a facility for pregnant teens. She couldn't bring herself to use the word 'pregnant' and just ended up calling the girls 'fat'.

[DarkTirade]

53. I would, but that would require me to START using that phrase.

:shrug: