As I’ve said before, all of our friends are having babies. The Wife and I are in our early 30s — the real baby-making years — so you can imagine how the infants are dropping all around us like soft pink raindrops. And it isn’t just our friends; it’s friends of friends. Third cousins, casual acquaintances and co-workers… they’re all multiplying like gremlins.
My German wife is still on the fence about the whole ‘having kids’ idea (as am I), so she really notices when someone in her daily life is about to make sperm blossoms. She has all sorts of colorful ways for describing the different stages of human gestation, and I was not at all surprised when she said of her new co-worker:
THE WIFE: “When I first met her, she was highly pregnant.”
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Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
Haha I guess this is only funny if you speak German too and understand why she thinks that this expression would make sense ;)
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It’s pretty funny in English too, right? God this woman cracks me up.
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When I was pregnant, my doctor earnestly told me that I was ‘becoming a baby’, which freaked me out. HerrBCE had to translate the German ‘Sie bekommt ein baby’ to calm me down. ‘Highly pregnant’ made me laugh : )
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Right on, British Cheese Emporium! Thank you for reading and commenting!
Dang, was your doctor making fun of you? How rude. :)
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