I clearly am bvu but I can't help but be annoyed by this status update and the like: "Being a mummy is the best feeling in the WHOLE wide world :) xxx."

[Tizzylizzy]

I am clearly an awful human being but it just sets me totally on edge. Yes being a mum has moments of total euphoria but no one's convincing me it's a bed of roses 100% of the time. Or it could be the calling yourself 'mummy' and talking in baby language. I dunno, just pisses me off. I'm awful aren't I?

It's twee and cringey. And not pleasant for any friends suffering fertility problems.

YANBU.
fb alas feeds into the belief that some people have that their children are better and more interesting than anyone else's. Nope, they're pretty much all the same. Interesting to their parents and close family but not really to anyone else.
I also get fed up of gloaty fb statuses about babies such as 'took x swimming today, already best in the class!' Or 'took x to hv for check and hv amazed by advanced head control.'

Yes, I'm sure that most people who go to oxbridge started out with advanced head control.

I think YABU, from the women I know who post like this a fair proportion have had a short sharp shock with motherhood. One seemed to think giving birth would be on a par with being licked by kittens and she wouldn't mind being sleep deprived cos she'd love her child so much it wouldn't bother her. Her love would override all adversity. If this public declaration helps her get through her day or feel a better mother then power to her. They're great Mams from my experience, just insecure and muddling along like the rest of us.

Nope, I don't. Maybe I should though!

It's lovely that she is so deliriously happy with her lot, truly it is, but personally I am all for shooting sentimental sappy over-sharers.

I agree with you soo much OP.

My friends looked at me like I'd pissed on them when i said 'yes, i am a mother, but i still want a life of my own aswell'

Yanbu its very annoying. And often I think 'who are you trying to convince?'

Fake it till you make it then Debeez? If that is the reason then it doesn't sit well with me. I've found motherhood unspeakably hard. For that reason I made a vow that I'd be upfront with anyone who asks me about what it's like to be a mum: not a bed of roses.

How does it make struggling mums feel reading this stuff? Not good.

If they honestly have had such a good moment they have time to log onto to the Internet, log into Facebook and then update their status then fine. Also fine(ish) if it's just harmless airheadishness.

But no - if you're saying it's cos they're finding it hard and it cheers them up then I think it rather selfish. There could just be someone out there who reads it and thinks 'why the fuck don't I feel like that?''.

gushy mum=ardest job in world sentimental schmaltz.really irks
all a bit too clintons cards

One of my fb friends works part time mon to weds & EVERY week she posts 'gotta love the four day weekend with my little man, working part time is fab' on weds evening

Seriously?! Every week?!

I can put up with most posts and just think you complete tit.

But if i saw that. Delete!

"Fake it till you make it" Not as such. More revel in your happy moments and make the most of them. It used to be over the garden fence, now it's fb. I don't think the stealth boasts are a new thing, just in a different format.

FWIW I'm not a huge FB poster about my DS, but as I've just pointed out on another thread he's like Ben from Outnumbered. I'm proud of him and think he's fab but I doubt others would get my pride in him :o

I understand the fertility issues too, luckily even after a MC I was in a position to love the pregnancy updates from friends and the bump pictures, I tried hard to think at least it's going well for someone.

I did have to remove another friend as her constant posting about her yearning for a baby and how hard ttc was was too close to home for me. We weren't close, I doubt she misses me. Don't blame her for sharing though, her life, my problem that I found it so hard.

Yup...EVERY week. We do get some minor variations on the theme. I have replied once:

'hello 4 day weekend, gotta love working part time'

-Slacker ;-)

She is nice enough just a bit self centred. Don't really want to block her.

Happily none of my FB friends post such awful bloody guff. And neither will I. Ever.

good grief a fb fan decrying the complainers
or haters as you Huns love to say
tbh,fb us inane dribble and op is spot on to be irked by it

I like facebook and use it often, although not given to inane dribble.