Just had a lovely email from DH saying that today (the very day he was planning to tell his colleagues I am pg) his best friend (one of his colleagues) told him his own wife is pg with their second.
This is lovely obviously, they want a big family and I am so pleased for them :) Also selfishly pleased that DH can now really talk to his friend about all this stuff as he is usually reticent with his friends and stores up his worries. Nice experience for them to share together.
SMALL issue is that - and I have tried and tried - I have never got on with DH's friend's wife!! I have made a lot of effort with her but at the end of the day we are just 2 very different people. Never likely to choose each other as friends. DH's friend is already (very sweetly) saying that I must call her and we must hang out and do/talk baby stuff... (also not my thing, no matter who with!) I of course want to be nice and polite and the idea is nice in principle but oh dear. She is like my opposite, I already know from listening to her about her first pregnancy that she is (no criticism of people who are!) a real hippy-dippy, no pain relief, squeeze a baby out with two-pushes-and-a-camomile-tea kind of person. Um - NOT my plan.
Obviously I can and will do a lot of smile and nod but she really did have a way of getting my goat and making me feel inferior even BEFORE we were co-experiencing a pregnancy!!!
Any advice, apart from avoid her like the plague?! Honestly, she is not at all a bad person, just a million miles from my personality PLUS very bossy and opinionated about children/childbirth...