I think it's a normal reaction to people who are TTC and desperately wanting a baby to us lucky people who don't have to go through all the TTC stresses and strains. I do feel a bit guilty that I could fall pregnant so easily, but I try to put that out of my mind: I know my friends are happy for me, even if sometimes they can't work up enough strength to talk pregnancy with me. It is hard, and it's even harder if everyone else is pushing a pregnancy in your face.
I had this with SiL's pregnancy: although I did try to talk to her, she was ignoring me then (LOL, very long story) and I was really mad with her. Well, more for being rude pre-pregnancy and during pregnancy than for being pregnant, but her getting pregnant about the same time I had hoped to was just the icing on the cake! Yes, I was happy for her, but I was also sad for me, if that makes sense. Then having to face the pregnancy before I was ready to because DH kept telling me off for not being 100% happy all the time... didn't help anything.
Then look at me with evil cousin and her "accident" - the only reason I don't like cousin, well the main one, is that my mum kept talking about her pregnancy and all she was doing for cousin, knowing I really wanted a baby and wouldn't take my gentle hints (like "can you just shut up about it now?"). And these two when DH wasn't interested in trying for a baby! Again, it's nice she's having a baby and she's excited, I just wish I could have faced it in my own time and not been confronted with all the gifts my mum was buying her every week because mum wouldn't shut up about it.
As a rule, I don't talk pregnancy unless someone else brings it up; it can upset people for lots of different reasons. I know sometimes you just want to shout it from the rooftops, but I know how much I appreciated a low-key approach from the people I do love and so do my best to have that approach.
Plus I have DH and MiL to talk constant pregnancy with - well, OK, just MiL really - so knowing that I only have to be quiet for a few hours makes it a bit easier.
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