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As if pregnancy is how woman are expected to pay for motherhood. Sounds to me like he has issues, does his wife stay home with their children, could he be resentful of that and be thinking well at least she earned it by being pregnant? If he's a good friend, tell him he's being a bummer
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Not a great friend, but a good, friendly coworker. It was said in a joking manner rather than the direct, rude, obnoxious way that would warrant an immediate, equally rude comeback.
I have no issue snapping back at the rude people, it's the "joking around with you" folks that I generally get along with that I find harder to deal with. It's way too early in the game to start getting told that I'm overly sensitive, you know? And half of it doesn't phase me, but would be extremely rude in other circumstances and I don't want to encourage people to make potentially hurtful blanket statements, you know? About ANY issue.
It was a good learning day. I caught myself this afternoon in regards to a different issue. I got an e-mail from a friend saying that she just gave birth to baby #5. I called my mom to tell her and the first comments she had were, 1) haven't they figured out where those come from and 2) well, can they afford it? I'm ashamed to say that her second comment was one of my first thoughts too.
Funny how much worse things sound out loud coming from someone else, isn't it? I told mom that was their business as a couple to decide and felt a little ashamed of us both.