Pregnant adj. carrying unborn young within the body; gravid.
Hence, when my attending cardiologist asks his young patient (with her husband standing in the room), "So, are we going to get pregnant any time soon?" I didn't know whether to cringe or laugh. It was wrong on so many levels!
Might I take this time to helpfully clarify that pregnancy is a physiological state, not a state of anticipating a baby. "We're expecting a baby!" is an acceptable phrase for a young father-to-be. "We're pregnant," most certainly, is not.
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