I agree with everything you said 100%! Even when I was preggers people didn't help me but now I am in Europe (husband has a business trip) everyone is helping me from left to right. People are soo much nicer here. They will open the door, bring the stroller up the stairs (a full flight of stairs to my apartment, which I hate but soon I will be back home! :) ). and I don't have to ask, they do it because they are nice. At home in the states, people will ignore you, aka pretend you are not there and it is sad. I am the type of person to always help people no matter what. With a baby (7 month old) in hand and I see someone needs help opening the door,etc, I will go out of my way to open the door for them. Will people do that for me? nah. I guess I was brought up right ;) and I will teach my little one ( and future ones) to do the same as I was taught.