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I love working in the oil & gas industry, I really do. But the "interesting" characters that I find endearing can get even more interesting when they are forced to work with a pregnant lady. Some gems I've heard while working here:

Engineer: "So how long do you have off?"
Me: "I get 6 weeks leave from work and then I'll be back."
E: "Oh so you're going to do childcare or something?"
M: "Well, we don't have it all worked out yet but something like that."
E: "I think babies are better when raised by their mom. In fact, I know it."
M: "Well, this mom needs a paycheck, so..."

An engineer told me he was creating a program to use next year to pull data from bids we receive and organizes it into a spreadsheet. I was entering all this data into a spreadsheet for him manually, so I joked, "So will I not have a job next year?" His response: "You don't need a job next year, you'll be a mom." That's funny - I did not realize my newborn baby also paid our bills!

Engineer: "How much longer do you have left?"
Me: "About 6 weeks."
E: "Oh...it's hell finding clothes that fit, huh?"
Reeeeeally?! I thought I looked really cute that day. And all my clothes do fit just fine!

And not once, but twice men have asked me if I plan on having a natural birth because their wives did. That's awesome that your wife made that choice, but my choice is as much pain medicine as I'm allowed to have because that's what it's there for. It's 2010. Come on. Also, maybe let's not discuss my birthing plans. At work. Because you're dudes.

I'm sure I'll have many more of these to come the closer I get to my due date.