http://www.yahoo.com/parenting/mom-under-fire-for-controversial-photo-of-twin-123996597457.html/


A 26 yr old mother of twins girls, was feed up with intrusive questions, from total strangers, every time she left her house with the girl toddlers.

So she put the girls in their two seat pram and pinned paper with the answers to all the intrusive questions on the girls in the pram.

She took a photo. She posted it in F@c@book ,the majority loved it, others did not

Even though she never left her house with her daughters in the pram with the notes.... & stated so in her rant ....

she is under of fire

A mother of twins has posted a photo of her daughters with a list of answers to the intrusivea questions she often receives about them. (Photo: Facebook/Uncanny Annie)

If you are a parent, you may have been asked some pretty personal questions about your children from well-meaning strangers as had one mother of twins, Annie Nolan, who aired her frustrations about the intrusive inquiries with an online rant and is now receiving backlash.

The Australian blogger and mother-of-three, Nolan, 26, was increasingly frustrated by the barrage of comments and questions she received whenever she left the house with her 2-year-old twin girls, Delphine and Cheska. So she wrote a humorous cheat sheet of answers and attached it to her daughters double stroller. On Thursday, Nolan posted a photo of the sign and her girls to her blog Uncanny Annies Facebook page, where it quickly racked up 21,000 likes and more than 7,000 shares.

Nolan, who did not return a request for comment from Yahoo Parenting, captioned the photo, I REALLY wanted to leave these signs on the pram today�I know people are coming from a great place and are just curious however many can be quite intrusive and after a while its just plain exhausting. Although Nolan didnt actually leave the house with the sign, online commenters are saying shes an ungrateful and neglectful mother.

Some gems from Nolans sign include:

Yes they are mine.

Yes they are twins.

No, not identical.

Conceived by f***ing.

Born via C-section.

Yes, my hands are full.

On Monday, Nolan took to Facebook again to address her critics. She wrote, in part, This photo was staged. I did not actually walk them around like this� If I had of known it was going to be this big, I wouldnt [have] sworn. It was my way of expressing my frustration with the are they natural question� absolutely NEVER meant to hurt a single soul with this photo�I am grateful for my children EVERYDAY.

You may relate to Nolan if youve ever been hit with personal child-related questions asking about everything from your method of conception or childbirth to various parenting choices. And if its unwelcome, it can feel intrusive. Its possible that simply seeing a woman with kids evokes a sense of familiarity within a fellow parent or that, because pregnancy is feted in pop culture, people assume the topic is up for discussion.

When my son was 3 months old, for example,I was stunned into silence when a woman approached me in a store and asked, C-section or vaginal birth? And Im not the only one check out these other personal questions that mothers I know have been asked in public:

Are you trying?

Are you going to have another?

How long are you going to continue nursing?

Isnt she a little old for that?

Is that drink for you?

[Upon hearing I was formula feeding]: But doesnt that make babies obese?

And, for the win: Are you planning to have you vagina stretched prior to delivering your baby?

It all makes you see where Nolans coming from.

<shrug>

kids look happy : )

Datwasntme,

Thank you, for some reason ;t was not copying

I don't blame the woman, people are nosey as hell. I had two children in a row & breastfeed (no...not in public). And people just come up & try to touch your stomach or the babies & even try to pic them up... & ask outrageous questions.
I have even smacked the hands of 3 people. A woman & two men for trying to touch my stomach as well as told people off.
I even had people ask if they could watch me breastfeed....NO!

If there was a severe lack of boundaries back then.. I can't imagine what it is like now.

Talk shows, & social media has really been a negative force in dealing with REAL social interaction.

"Conceived by F***ing"

Thats hysterical

very glad to be of help : )
i got a beer belly , no one trys to rub it : (
my X father in law (dad) says he is going to have Qwadruplets , i told him nah as long as that bun has been in the oven it has to be one kid like 78 years old by now : )

and yeah some people just dont understand the private zone's lol

And I believe that people asked her, how? As if they have their own talk show & want to know, if she used fertility drugs, invitro, if the doctor confirmed there were two amniotic sacks...

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Why would anyone touch a complete stranger in that way?

What does the last one say? Triplets would be what?

IamWhatIam,
What does the last one say? Triplets would be what?

Triplets would be harder

Priceless... Best answers she could ever give..
So some people's noses are out of joint who cares...

I considered doing this and taking my twins out in public.

It was horrible after they were first born. With a newborn (not even considering there being two of them), you have less than 30 minutes to get in and out of a grocery store and I was stopped every 2 minutes by people. Plus on top of it with being so sleep deprived, I really didn't feel like being nice to people.