Special Treatment for Pregnant Women
I recently heard a story about a woman who got an interesting discount, just because she was pregnant. She went into a sandwich shop for lunch one day, ordered her food and then was told that she got 10% off. She thought maybe the sandwich was on special and sat down to eat. Before she left the owner came over and told her that because of her being pregnant, she got a discount every time she came in and that in the future just sit down, tell him what she wanted and he would handle the rest.
While this special treatment was incredibly nice and thoughtful, and pregnant women all around the world probably think that more places should do this, it is not common to find places offering women special treatment just because they are pregnant. Most restaurants do not have discounts for pregnant women, neither do most stores you will find in your local town. Sometimes you can get lucky though.
One type of special treatment that many pregnant women in their third trimester would appreciate is a parking spot or spots reserved close to doors of shopping centers and grocery stores. By the time you are ready to deliver, walking a mile to buy some milk because you can’t find a close spot does not sound too exciting. Especially in the heat of the summer, or if it is cold, snowy, icy or raining outside. However, you can occasionally find these special spots at local grocery stores and chains. If you do you generally have to get a “pass” from the store that you hang in your window letting them know that you are in fact pregnant and they are only good in the third trimester and for the first couple of months after your baby is born.
It would also be nice if places like big amusement parks, where you are told you can not ride the rides, would offer discounts to pregnant women. Instead at most of them pregnant women are forced to pay the full price of $40 or $50 so that they can go in and walk around for hours while their family gets to enjoy the rides that they paid for. We are not aware of any amusement park that offers this type of discount, but if you are, please let us know so that we can tell all pregnant women to go there!
If you can not find a place in your neighborhood that offers special treatment to pregnant women, bring up the idea yourself. Mention it to the owners of your favorite restaurants, and to the manager at your local grocery store. Make them see that offering parking spots or discounts on food would help bring in the pregnant women who want to walk only 20 feet, instead of a mile, and those that don’t feel like cooking, but would rather just grab a quick bite to eat. Many times it is not done just because it isn’t thought of. After all, not everyone can be as smart as a pregnant woman.
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Kasmira says...
I absolutely agree with you. I just moved to NY from Arizona, and I moved while I was pregnant. In Arizona, there were the pregnant woman AND mothers with children parking spots right in front of the doors. Then it went to handicapped and then regular.
I was also at several restaurants where they did end up giving me a major discount and sometimes I would get appetizers for free.
As soon as I moved to NY, I realized that not only was there no hospitality twords pregnant woman, but people made fun of your weight and size!!!
There are no parking spots for pregnant moms, or discounts, or anything. Some people don’t even offer you the front seat on the bus, or open the door for you!!!
This article actually gives me a wonderful idea! Who says the north cannot be as nice as the south? I think I am going to talk to the city council and pursuade them to put some pregnant parking spots up!!!
Thanks so much, and have a wonderful day!!!
Kelly says...
Pregnancy is NOT a handicap. If you can not fathom walking a few feet than how the heck are you going to push a 8lb, screaming kid out of your vagina? Get over yourself. Having a kid is not a miracle. Being pregnant does not give you a free ticket to entitled-princess city. Get off of your high horses before you all fall down and hurt yourselves.
OMG people in NYC didn’t bend over backwords for you. END OF THE WORLD!