What are some unconventional ways to describe pregnancy?

[mix]

Be polite.

Bun's in the oven is mine.

[petronius]

1. "Eating for two"

[mix]

2. That is a trip for me as a man to fathom.

"Eating for two"...to feel that life and hunger inside, beautiful.

[GoneOffShore]

3. From my time in the UK

"up the spout"

"In the club"

[kedrys]

4. "Guesting"

I can't remember the sci-fi story this came from, but since the lil' bundle is only there temporarily, it kind of makes sense. :)

[rug]

5. Screwed.

[Boojatta]

6. Hotel uterus has no vacancies

[nolabear]

7. Ridin' on the Mommy Train, Baby Bump on Board, "I swear it was an angel and we just talked."

[woo me with science]

8. "on the nest," "knocked up," "the rabbit died" nt

[tinkerbell41]

9. With Child

Creepy to me.

[HopeHoops]

10. Slurpin' sperm

I know, a little rude. But we used that in high school over 30 years ago.

[Tom_Foolery]

11. Baby on board...

Regenerating
Multiplying

[BlueIris]

12. An uncomfortable nine month struggle between a fetus and its host for nutrients and survival.

With hemorrhoids!

[canoeist52]

13. "in the family way"

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. "out of the country at the time"

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[mix]

15. So you were in New Zealand? nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. !!!!!!

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:thumbsup: :rofl: :thumbsup:
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[boppers]

17. "Additional Pylons Required"

:)

[mix]

29. I associate pylons with beach houses for some reason, but I get yer drift. nt

[nolabear]

18. "If you ever touch me again so help me god I'll rip it off!"

Ninth month.

[Recovered Repug]

19. Honest sir, I never touched your daughter.

I'm a guy.

[Kali]

20. bred

:P

[mix]

36. showing nt

[Inchworm]

21. Preggo, calving

and near the end.. 'bout to drop.

:hi:

[Xithras]

22. I kinda miss "storked"

Haven't heard it used in about a decade though.

[Demoiselle]

26. I love it! Never heard it before. Will use it now. nt

[Iggo]

23. Hosting a parasite.

A cute little cuddly parasite.

[quakerboy]

45. Along those lines

Infested

[BlueIris]

24. Expecting.

One of the more conventional euphemisms for it, but still one that makes me go, "Expecting what?"

[mopinko]

38. trouble. nt

[sarge43]

25. About ready to harvest. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. up the duff; gravid; great with child; bagged; teeming; privement enceinte

(that last one is an obsolete legal term for when it is not generally known)

pagled
enwombed
in a delicate condition
up the pole
in the pudding club
preggers
in the spud line
up the stick

God, I love the new OED thesaurus feature.

[mix]

28. a veritable treasure trove ! nt

[GodlessBiker]

30. The little man in the boat? No, wait.

[mix]

31. that is kinda cute nt

[KamaAina]

32. Embarazada

Spanish for "pregnant", not "embarrassed", unbeknownst to substitute Spanish teacher Peggy Hill, who went ahead and told a group of Mexicans, "I am very pregnant".

[Fire Walk With Me]

33. Geboinked.

[peacefreak]

34. bun in the oven

nt

[canoeist52]

35. "increasing"

[Manifestor_of_Light]

37. Nine month uterine tumor.

Gonna download soon.

After 24 weeks, I stayed home and laid around and tried to eat, sleep and breathe. I had to stop working because it hurt too much to sit up with the baby's pressure on my ribs. From personal experience, I think it's more stressful on small women than on big women. I'm a small woman and it was definitely a big strain.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

39. "College tuition is HOW MUCH?"

I offer that one because a friend received a bill for $8000 today...yes, eight and three zeroes...from his daughter's college and he has no idea what the fees are for. He's planning a trip there to discuss it face-to-face.

[meow2u3]

40. Having one on the way

Others include:

Expecting
A mom-to-be
Preview of coming attractions :evilgrin:
Preserving the human race

Well, speaking of a bun in the oven:
My friend had a Doxie named Honey; her nickname was Bun-bun. So, when she was pregnant with her litter, we said she had little bun-buns in the oven. :)

[Chan790]

41. The best one I ever heard...

came from my (politically, morally and socially conservative, very-religious) co-worker Nikki, a woman who says "shoot" and "drat" instead of swearing, attempting to explain to my district manager why she needed to move her wedding day up 3 months.

It was so crude, beautiful and universally offensive as to be unrepeatable in any polite conversation.

[MiddleFingerMom]

42. Oh, now that's just CRUEL...

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[Chan790]

46. The OP asked us to keep it polite.

I wasn't going to drop the phrase "{fiance's name} got me cocked-up." into a polite conversation...but I should have known the DU Lounge is never *that* polite.

The best part was that the District Manager tried to correct her mondegreen but she I guess thought he had not understood and responded by explaining how this condition came to be using cutesy terms like "woo" and "dingding" before reiterating with an exclamation point and a hand-flourish that she was in-fact "cocked-up!"

(At this point, the other two baristi (a retired obstetric nurse and a homeopathy practitioner & masseuse) and I are literally :rofl:.)

[applegrove]

43. A pea in the pod.

[tandot]

44. Big Macs

I know that I needed protein but I couldn't eat any meat. The only stuff I craved where Big Macs. Horrible. Before I was pregnant, I ate some grilled chicken breast, a little filet mignon, and other healthy fish or meat protein options. During the pregnancy, I had whey protein shakes to make up for the protein (I bought it at Whole Foods). However, once pregnant, I always craved Big Macs...how horrible