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TTC After a Loss
Holding my tongue around work friend BFPs
I have two work friends who have recently gotten pregnant. Both told people at work RIGHT AWAY. Like 5-6 weeks pregnant type of right away. I found out after the fact that they did it, but wish I had the chance to talk them out of it. The first I understand her reason for wanting to tell because she will be about 8 months pregnant when they have a big project and will not be able to work her job as required so she wanted to warn them now to start finding help. The other is just naive. She is so completely clueless I don't think she knows that miscarriages can even happen.
I really hope everything goes well for both of them, but I can't help but want to tell them that it probably wasn't a good idea to announce it right away like that.
Or maybe it's just me being bitter since neither of them were trying.
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Re: Holding my tongue around work friend BFPs
I know that is hard to be jealous/bitter about things when that happens.
I was also thinking though, that although I won't tell our whole office for a loooong time when I get my BFP, there are a couple of friends here that I will probably tell pretty early. My reasoning is that they were really there for me and helped me get through the days/weeks/months after losing Sophia, and I know I'd want their support again if I had another loss.
I'm sorry you're having to deal with that though. ((HUGS))
I'm actually with Mia on this one. That we'll tell our friends and family right away. We'll need their support again if we have another mc.
But, I also agree with OP about leaving it out of the work place for a while. Dh's entire company knew about our pg early and then the mc, but by 13 weeks we'd have told anyways. After the mc, I was terrified to go to his work place for over a month, it terrified me!