I've 2 dc of my own, AIBU to feel slightly 'funny' when I hear pregnancy announcements?

[WalkingZed]

Does anyone get like this?

You are happy for the person but there's just something that wishes it was you again?!

I've one of each aged 1 and 3! My hands are full.

I'm 38 so there will be no more dc!

I did had a silent mc a few months back, got to 12 weeks, awful shock.

I feel awful that I feel like this when people announce pregnancy.

Is it just me?

Very very common when you've had a miscarriage I think.
Don't write yourself off at 38 either!

I will always, always, always get the pang about a new baby announcement, there's just something about a tiny perfect newborn baby. And I loved the newborn and baby stages with all mine. It was the time of parenthood when I felt most instinctively contented and confident that I was doing it right.

Unfortunately babies have a habit of growing into toddlers and toddlers grow into school children and school children become pre teens and so on and so on, and I find all of these stages bloody hard work and I no longer ever feel confident that I'm doing it right. Am rapidly approaching the teen stage with my eldest and I'm dreading it. It's not that I don't enjoy my DC as such, it's just that I find parenting children so much harder and more complicated and stressful than parenting tiny babies.

So my baby announcement pangs are always followed by immense sympathy for the new parents who are going to have to deal with all those parenting stresses later down the line.

I had a pang today when my youngest (4yo) said he wished he had a sister. I'm early 40s and don't intend on having 3 kids, but I would love a daughter.