Reply to Friend being smug about new baby

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Friend being smug about new baby"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't you just be happy for them, and let it go? [/quote]

This!

I had twins (spontaneous, we did not do any kind of fertility treatments, so we were not expecting that!), but my pregnancy was actually pretty easy, my job let me work from home until they were born, I had saved up a ton of PTO for a long maternity leave (and I didn't have to worry about using it all up since we had wanted two kids and got two in one), my husband was very senior at his job and was able to take leave both after they were born so that the four of us were home together for awhile and then again when I went back to work, we had enough money to hire an amazing nanny who started before we went back to work full-time so we were super comfortable leaving our babies with her, our jobs were kind to us when they were little so that we weren't working a ton and didn't have to travel, and they were super easy babies who rarely fussed and slept through the night at 12 weeks without ever crying it out. So yeah, some of us actually hit the jackpot when it comes to kids. I could tell you about all the other stuff I've had to deal with (alcoholic mom who now has dementia whose care is solely on me, brother who overdosed, dad who died of cancer), but the baby stage was pretty great, even with two of them. So maybe just be happy for your friends. Honestly, they don't sound like they're being smug. Maybe you should consider what kind of friend you are that you can't just be happy for them. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics