You went to IKEA because you needed a new piece of furniture. Instead you went to IKEA formally known as the ‘everyone-is-pregnant-or-has-young-children’ store.
Everyone is pregnant at IKEA.
Similar to (everyone is pregnant at) Walmart, IKEA is just as bad. You decided to drive over to the store and the only parking spot left was the Expectant Mothers and Family Spot. You would park there but it would be too depressing, and you’re sure that an IKEA parking lot official would escort you out of the lot. “This car belongs to an infertile, ma-am, please leave the parking spot.“ Instead, you park so far back that you can hardly see the store anymore. You walk past the kids play area, crash into at least a dozen pregnant bellies, and end up walking through the children’s bedroom furniture. You have to use the bathroom but you are pretty sure you (a) can’t find the toilet in the maze of the store or (b) your period will be waiting for you in your underpants. So you spend the next 5 hours walking down the aisles, completely upset because everyone is pregnant but you and you can’t figure out how to put that damn book shelf together.
Thank goodness for the 99 cent hot dog and that delicious frozen yoghurt cone.
IKEA, Swedish for being fertile.
UGH I noticed this the last time I was there…every other person was pregnant. If that wasn’t bad enough, I was with my friend who was ALSO pregnant. She complained about her pregnancy the entire time.
Has anyone noticed the abundance of pregnant people in commercials recently? I kid you not, I saw one this morning for yogurt and the woman was preggers. Like, eat our yogurt and you will magically get pregnant too!
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Oh my goodness! I went there two weeks ago with the hubster and I noticed that but didn’t say anything until he said, “Wow, everyone here looks like they are pregnant.” I about lost my gum out of my mouth once he said that, my jaw dropped and I had to laugh. It is the best way I found to deal with trying to have a baby for the past couple of years and no success. Still, it makes you wonder if there is something in the water at IKEA?
You know, it really does seem like there has been a boom recently. And I don’t think it’s just cause I notice it more after more than two years of trying. Car cpmmercials, phone commercials, very random commercials have either pregnant ladies or babies. Last year, where I work there were 7 pregnancies. Seriously. And I thought, okay, at least this year, I’ll be okay, everybody had their babies. But no, only a month into the new school year and I’m already dealing with 4 pregnancies. Four?! And I know at least 3 of us (and 2 who were pregnant last year) are dealing with IF, so that means that there could very easily be more this year. I just try to keep my head up and avoid the pregnant ladies like they had the plague…
Too true! Last time we were there, my husband also pointed it out. I LOVED it so much that he said what I was thinking. Isn’t it bad enough that the “showroom stroll” includes the tour of the children’s bedrooms?
Totally true. I just eat the hotdogs, right in front of a pregnant lady and comment at how good they are, and what would I do if I could not eat these. Of course I would give them up in a second for a baby – but they dont need to know that
I totally can relate to this, but it was not just IKEA for me. Everywhere we went it seemed like I was the only one not pregnant. The other thing I would notice was everyone seemed to have twins! Knowing that I was secretly hoping we would eventually have twins, this made it even worse!
Totally true. My favorite is how everyone at work is pregnant. 4 pregnancies at my work while I’ve been trying. and this last one is the hardest-used to be my bf, things got weird, then she got pregnant, then I heard how she told a few people how funny it would be if she got pregnant before me because it would make me “so mad”. Nice friend. oh also this is her second baby and she is getting the royal full blown baby shower treatment from everyone. I swear I am starting to believe she is giving birth the the messiah or virgin mary the way people just cater to her. over it. can’t wait till she has it
ugh. @bbw- I know how you feel. Get this- My husband and I were ttc for 3 years. My brother and sister in law have known eachother 8 months and have been married for 2 months. Their whole engagement they thought it was so funny to make comments like “who’s going to have the first grandchild??” “competitions on!”(even though they knew we were trying) We finally got our BFP and announced it- she cried because she wanted to be pregnant and didn’t magically concieve the first month. A week later they announced theirs- the same way. We miscarried last wednesday and posted it on FB. The second post after mine? “We’re so thankful our baby is healthy! Our little one’s heart started pumping blood this week!” GAG ME!
Hi Molly, I’m so,so sorry for your loss of your baby and ll the crap that your SIL put you through. Grrr…talk about a momzilla, is what she sounds like. I can’t believe she would say something so heartless after your loss. *hugs* to you. I keep you and your baby in my prayers.
@Molly–that is the most horrible, insensitive, pointlessly-competitive SIL. Yes, GAG me! I would distance myself from her–she sounds creepy.
Oh yeah, felt this way 32572935902 times. We don’t have an IKEA around us, but we do have a Walmart, Target, so I know how it goes.
One of the *my* worst places was, surprisingly, the grocery store. I used to go on the weekends and it was like family central…with kids in carts and in little toy cars attached to carts. I had to stop going on weekends and go during the week, when I figured there would be less kids.
And not only were there a ton of kids on the weekends, those darn car carts that they sit in take up a whole isle! So I could rarely make a quick escape upon seeing a child. Bleh.
This is so true! However, thank you for letting me see the humor in a few things. At times, I really struggle eating at a restaurant because I can’t stop staring at kids or going to the grocery store. However, I’m always thankful and happy they are blessed. It’s crazy too because the only job I have had the past 14 years has been a daycare, children’s director, and elementary teacher.
Then you spend the next 5 hours walking in the corridors, very sad because everyone is pregnant, but you and you can not understand how to put the whole damn book shelf.
Swedish for being fertile! Haaaa!
I was in Ikea on the tail end of my miscarriage last year. I guess I was staring so intently at pregnant women’s bellies that my husband was afraid that someone might call security. Ha! Now, I have to turn my head when we walk through the kids’ section, because I hate being reminded of the furniture that we’d already picked out. Thank goodness we didn’t actually buy it!
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