To think this April Fool's joke is not funny

[SweetTeaVodka]

I'm a member of a "due date group" on the dreaded Facebook. We are all due March/April. One of the (yet to give birth) members has just shared a post her husband made on his timeline announcing the "safe arrival" of their newborn with a picture taken Google. It's had likes and congratulations posted on it.

Am I alone in thinking this is not at all funny? Maybe it's my anxiety disorder speaking but I'd be terrified of somehow "tempting fate" (even though I'm not sure I believe in fate to begin with) and what if something traumatic/the unthinkable happens when she does actually come to have her baby.

I also think the safe arrival of a healthy baby is nothing to joke about when so many people's babies don't arrive safely or healthy.

Or am I just having a sense of humour failure and need to get a grip?

[maggiethemagpie]

I thought you meant at first that the joke was that the DH had given birth himself - that would be slightly more funny but barely. As it stands, its not very funny.

FWIW at the age of TEN my parents played an April Fool's trick on me of pretending my step mum was pregnant.. I was all excited thinking I was getting a little brother or sister then after 12 they turned round and said April Fool!

They're the bloody fools....

[lilone1234]

I think the OP actually said it was posted on the DP's status, then the woman posted it on the group. So not just seen by fellow preggo's. I also don't think OP would be alone in thinking that could be tempting fate at worst and very insensitive at best. YANBU. Bloody stupid man. I would be livid if it were me!

[Spandexpants007]

It's not a funny joke but i wouldn't take offence

[FatimaLovesBread]

It wasn't posted on the due date group.
The DH posted it as his fb status. The wife then shared it on the due date group in a 'how funny is my husband' kind of way

[AppleSetsSail]

Not funny, but it would hardly give me pause.

[MackerelOfFact]

YANBU. It's just not 'funny' is it?

People believing a fairly mundane and completely plausible thing they have been told = not funny.

People believing a ridiculous and utterly implausible thing they have been told = quite funny.

I had a friend who did the 'pregnancy' April Fool. She posted it in the afternoon as well, adding to the confusion, and was getting congratulations for about 3 weeks afterwards. She got quite pissed off with it and ended up as the one who looked like a fool TBH.

[lljkk]

gosh you guys are serious. It's a silly fluffy joke.
It's not "tempting fate." Nothing about posting this joke will make a bad outcome more likely. The gods don't punish us for hubris.

No joke would ever be funny if we thought instead of all the parallel universes where something horrible happened, instead.

[Zucker]

Weird April fools surely all going well there will be a new baby for them soon. People who aren't glued to their Facebook feed for 24 hours per day will just be confused by it. Didn't she have that child weeks ago!?!
Nowt as strange as folk.

[Skittlesss]

I'm not saying that you can't talk about babies infront of people who have fertility issues, I'm saying that it's not very nice (or funny) to joke about being pregnant. Surely there's better things to joke about? I saw a nice cath kidston floral paint on Facebook earlier - that was a better April Fools joke.

[Sandsnake]

It's not funny in any way but I would say that YABU to let yourself be upset / offended by it.

[SweetTeaVodka]

Ok, let's clear some things up.

It was originally posted on the husband's feed, then the wife posted a screenshot in the due date group saying something along the lines of "look at how funny my husband is (baby not really here yet).

Several of the women in the due date group have had late term losses or babies born very unwell, a couple are expecting babies likely to be very unwell after birth.

I am not personally offended or upset by it, beyond thinking "I'd be furious if DH did that, I'd feel like it could maybe "tempt fate", and what about those that didn't have good news to share/what if later something went wrong for them - how horrible".

Then I recognised that I am more prone to worrying about this sort of thing due to my own issues so that I'd canvas opinion on if I was missing the funny here. And then I got on with my day.

My anxiety disorder does not make me such a nervous wreck as Armchair seems to be imagining - I have a decade of experience coping with it, have had some very useful therapy and CBT and haven't needed medicating for about 18 months, however as I approach the birth of DC2 I am becoming a bit more worried about that aspect of things - somewhat natural I imagine as I had a traumatic birth with DC1 and some concerns were recently identified about DC2 (which will hopefully be allayed at scan and appointment later today) - so as I said perhaps these things were making me a bit sensitive to not seeing the funny side, but I'm not cut up about the "prank", I just posted my musings here.

And I forgot who asked, but my baby is due next week.

[SweetTeaVodka]

Didn't mean to write such a long run on sentence there, bloody hell. I promise I did take a breathe while typing that!

[SylviaWrath]

Its not funny, but I don't see what your anxiety about your birth has to do with it. Its a due date group where everyone will be making announcements one after the other, so what difference does a faked one make?

[KayTee87]

It's not funny but shouldn't really offend anyone.

Now this is an offensive April fools... someone I know has suffered 2 miscarriages. 3 months after her latest miscarriage (last April fools) her 'friend' got a hold of her phone to 'frape' her and uploaded a picture of a positive pregnancy test to her Facebook wall and announced that she was expecting.
The victim of this prank has been trying to get a bean to stick for 2 years now :(

[LagunaBubbles]

God why on earth would someone do that kay, that's awful!

[KayTee87]

I know laguna - can only guess that this 'friend' is a bit dim at best or a total bitch at worst.