10 Questions Not To Ask Pregnant Women

Pregnancy is a trying time for a woman. Even for the Queen of England. I can’t assume

to know much about what goes on during pregnancy because, thankfully, I have never and will never get pregnant. There are some insensitive and appalling stuff some Kenyans, either clueless or deliberately ask pregnant women especially in cold July when there is an ‘outbreak’ of pregnancies. Here are 10 irritating ones... 1.Do you pick you food these days? This is one demeaning question since only chicken can ‘taga mayai’ and to equate a pregnant woman to ‘ngoks’, is a no-no, even if she cackles like one. 2. Do you consume more food presently? It can be said as a joke but everyone knows, the mother of a future voter eats for two, or sometimes, three. Her body needs the food. If you aren’t the one buying the food (through a running nose), shut up your beak and focus on whatever puts food on your own table! 3. Did you have it unprotected? This is the most stupid question anyone can ask a pregnant woman. The distended belly is sign enough that she had it without rubber, so why rub it in (no pun intended)? 4. Are you married? That’s invasion of privacy. If you know she wasn’t married, in a church wedding, or she isn’t currently living with a man, then such questions should only be asked by no one else apart from the woman’s mother, who might not even get a straight answer. 5. Do you wear tight jeans and dresses? Of course, she can’t fit into a pair of skinny jeans and the dresses she wears during pregnancy are sold under the tents section in a supermarket, hallo! 6. What’s wrong with you? There is everything wrong with a pregnant woman. Her hormones are acting up. The weight load is driving her crazy. She can’t see her toes. She can’t see or even shave herself. She feels nauseous, and she spits faster than a cobra. Is anything okay about that? 7. You are still pregnant? This is stupid. Some geniuses can clearly see that the woman is still walking around with a huge belly and ambling as if she will capsize backwards with the slightest gust of wind and you have the effrontary to ask her “You are still pregnant?” 8. You still have it like that? It is none of your business whether she exercises ‘field events’ in the bedroom. It is none of your business which ‘grandfather’ or ‘farmer’ positions she finds comfortable. It’s none of your business to know if she plans to lose baby weight and you absolutely have no reason to ask whether she will name the baby after Kalembe Ndile.