AIBU with my friends?

[PhyllisNights]

I'm the first one in my social group to get pregnant. I talk to my friends on a daily basis through WhatsApp and see them all in person at least once a week.

As it's my first pregnancy, I'm very excited. I can't stop talking about it. I'm so lucky, so happy, so fortunate & so privileged. My baby feels so special, like I know my baby will do something incredible in this world - I can feel it!!

And yet, my friends have started to turn on me. They've become very jealous. They make snide remarks, they mimick me & give me side eye. I feel like my pregnancy is the butt of all the jokes.

I can't help that I've been so blessed and so fortunate to get pregnant out of my friends first. I went to college, uni, started a professional career first & got married first. I've just always been up step ahead - I can't help it!!

Would it be unreasonable to sit my friends down and ask them to stop being so negative? I want to ask them to support me better and help me out.

[Oakmaiden]

Ah. For some reason I always read it as "Gina Ford" which sort of fits too...

[MiddleClassProblem]

Oakmaiden

[Chavelita]

I'm surprised they only give you the 'side eye'. I'd be planning an assassination attempt. Or trying to get you sent on the Mars mission.

[Trb17]

Just. Wow!

[Bloggybollocks]

Well your post is fucking nauseating so Christ knows what you're like in real life. You're friends are being unreasonable yes, but only because they haven't cut you off yet.

[Trills]

I can't help that I've been so blessed and so fortunate to get pregnant out of my friends first

If you are talking like this I can understand why they don't want to talk to you.

[bookworm14]

Fake

[Reow]

Who is Gina Ford?

[flibberdy]

Hahaha 2/10. Are you the first of your friends to receive a MN ??

[PeachPants]

God I really wish I was you.

I call bollocks

[Waffles80]

Baffling.

[noodleaddict]

Well if you went to college before all your friends you must be older than them? No surprises you're a step ahead then

[Blueemeraldagain]

R-E-V-E-R-S-E (to the tune of Respect by Aretha Franklin).

[pasturesgreen]

Jesus wept

You're very welcome to my first MN

[PhyllisNights]

I thought gf meant girlfriend as in female friend.

And it is me, and it is real. I just wish people would be happy for me. I'm naturally a very positive person. People have said that I'm competitive, but it's not that - everyone has their time to shine!

Maybe I need to go and find a local mums group or something?! I can't surround myself with people who refuse to be happy for me. The real test will be when the baby is born - then we'll see if they stick around when I'm seem as boring for staying home and being a loving and responsible mother!

[TheZeppo]

Nope, still not buying it.

[Fragglez]

Do you actually talk like this?? Does anyone talk like this?!

Try looking at it this way - your non pregnant friends either don't want to be, and so are a shade past disinterested in the in depth details of your pregnancy, or they do want to be and aren't, so you shoving your pregnantness down their throats is down right cruel.

You 'know' your baby is going to be the most perfect human ever. It's called hormones. And love. It's normal, but no one else is feeling it and if you carry on like that they are going to think you are nuts, not just annoying.

And fwiw people that use the term 'blessed' make my teeth itch.

[BlessYourCottonSocks]

Fucking hell...

[MiddleClassProblem]

BS BS BS!

[Imamouseduh]

Oh, bore off.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

Is this Maui Haylee under another name?

Feeling blessed.

[Allthewaves]

As it's my first pregnancy, I'm very excited. I can't stop talking about it. I'm so lucky, so happy, so fortunate & so privileged. My baby feels so special, like I know my baby will do something incredible in this world - I can feel it!!

But before you have kids pregnancy is a boring subject, your friends have no interest in your pregnancy stuff, the whole world does not centre on you and your pregnancy. They probably were happy for you but are now sick to death of the subject. Ditch the baby talk around them and save it for people who have babies. Plus your coming across as smug which isn't attractive

[WhereYouLeftIt]

"They've become very jealous."
No. They've become very bored.

"I can't stop talking about it."
Try harder.

"I went to college, uni, started a professional career first & got married first. I've just always been up step ahead - I can't help it!! "
Righhhht - Little Miss Competitive. Gotcha.

"Would it be unreasonable to sit my friends down and ask them to stop being so negative? I want to ask them to support me better and help me out."
Yes it would be unreasonable. And self-absorbed.

[Allthewaves]

And they probably won't have the slightest interest in your baby - sorry that's just how it is

[MagicMojito]

I can totally believe this is real. Takes all sorts