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she (we?) got pregnant

Off-topic, but I hate the abuse of the English language which is "we are pregnant" (except when the speaker and another are both pregnant women). Pregnancy is a physiological state, not a psychological or sociological state.

You are expecting; but she is pregnant.

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It's a common way of describing that shared experience. There's no need to restrict our speech or feelings to the strictly literal. If you don't like the phrase you don't have to use it, but to many couples the experience is meaningful enough that the phrase is also meaningful.

Meaningful to whom? Seems to me that the existence of an internal feeling experienced by some couples is not enough to warrant misusing a precise term.

If she's pregnant and insists I say "we", I say "we".

That simple.

Meaningful to them and to most of the rest of us.

Life is much more than utility.

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