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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, it is like chewing glass--I suffered with infertility and don't want to remember those days--but I still think the SIL should acknowledge the pregnancy.  It's been 3 months!  Come on...SIL is being a bit of a special snowflake herself not even to congratulate her family member.  She's going to be an aunt to this little boy or girl.

As much as I was hurting for the years I was infertile, I still knew the world was going on.  SIL should do the polite and loving thing and say *something*.  Or are the aunt and uncle just going to glaze over for the next 18 years whenever their niece/nephew is in the room??

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I was able to suck it up, too.  But I just assumed I was in a different mental place than my friends who were not able to.  And that's okay.   I didn't tell anyone about our struggles, not because I was some sort of martyr, but because I was deeply uncomfortable and didn't want any speculation or questions.  It sounds like the relationship with SIL was already strained, so there's a decent chance that this isn't all about infertility.  What OP thought was a sensitive way of telling her brother might not have been -- she's shown a bit of callousness in this thread, so...it's not a huge leap to imagine that she didn't hit the right note.[/quote]

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