How do you deal with other people announcing their pregnancies?

[nicole83]

I am not feeling good today :(. It has been a long long day and I am exhausted. So I am probably not in the best frame of mind to be thinking about this (oh and AF is here :hair:). But I can't help it. There are so many people we know that are pregnant. Even people that we are 99% sure are pregnant. This is not new to me because I have been through it all before, but I think I am dealing with it worse this time because I feel constraint with our current situation (haven't returned to work yet, house is too small for another bub, stress of thinking about IVF for round 2, stress of worrying if we will get any sperm due to MFI) the list goes on and on and I am feeling sorry for myself. So I am interested in hearing how other people deal with hearing about pregnancies/seeing pregnant bellies? what strategies (if any) do you have? We have one bubsicle and I want to bring it home so badly right now but the timing isn't right. In some ways it feels worse knowing that I have a potential baby waiting whereas with natural pregnancies atleast they don't have a "half made baby" waiting it's just the desire to have another if that makes sense...

[puffsgirl11]

I know exactly how you feel. We are the last out of all of our friends who don't have kids and we have been trying the longest.

I must admit that i do not cope too well. When someone tells me they are pregnant I am the first to admit that it kills me and I am very jealous. I go home have a cry to DH and then try to get over it.

The last couple of months have been hard for me to be around my pregnant freinds so I have been having a bit of time away from them. I have explained why I don't want to see them and they all seem to understand.

When I am having a bad day like your day I turn my fav music up really loud and drown out my surroundings.
I hope it gets easier for you!

Goodluck!