amaryllis...love the name! ... I do EXACTLY the same!!! sometimes I barely glance and actually avoid all eye contact etc etc around wee ones out and about, other times I must feel more secure and in a 'happy place' and I can enjoy the wonder that is a little being without anything more than a wistful afterthought when i walk away.

Possums..I feel for you re. the lady coming in with her baby...sometimes it just throws us hey? I wish there was a higher level of understanding amongst the sisterhood out there that it's not easy for all, and sometimes it's damn hard for some of us to share others' happiness...but there's flippin' good reasoning behind it. I for sure know, that I apologised to my girlfriend because way back in my 20s (), she told me she was trying and whenever I saw her I asked if she had any news for me. If I knew an eighth then what I know now I'd not have done that to her or anyone else I may have inadvertantly upset re. the subject of having children. As it turns out, she was blessed with 2 pretty close together and had her 3rd last year.

Wow hindsight...