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.

nobody is better than anyone else

Not true. I'm bettern alla yiz.

Phyllis, you can't be 3/4 Irish. You're either Irish or you're not.

Am I the only one wondering why HQ haven't commented on this?

It really odd isn't it? I wonder why 🤔 There have been a couple of deleting but there are dozens of troll hunting posts that have been left up.

but I don't get to go on holiday with my friends this year or my husband

I think if I were your husband I'd want to go on holiday with your friends too.

I'm amazed you actually found someone to marry you at all let alone get you pregnant. How on earth did he manage to find you through the fog of smugness??

He must be quite a guy.

4 bed here too. Parents in room 1, two youngest brothers in the box room, three girls in the second smallest, 4 brothers in the second and oldest brother moved out is the earliest I remember it. I'm the oopsie years after they thought they were done, I have no idea how they worked it before I remember that arrangement.

And DD's stepsister thinks it's awful she has to share every other weekend

"Why do posters think it's worthy of classics?

It's a pile of steaming bollocks with no wit or humour in the writing .

It's shit."

^^ yes to this!!!!! Honestly not getting all the love for either this pile of crap or an extemely dense OP who has zero self awareness.

Phyllis, by any chance were you spoiled at home?

Zeppo My theory is that MNHQ are already in negotiations with Channel 5 over how to split the Royalties for the new soapumentary series, PREGZILLA, that has been inspired by this thread.

Gaelic, your family is almost a mirror image of mine!

Trust me Phyllis, it's not your star sign or the colour of your hair that's causing the 'strong reaction'!

Wow....just....wow.
I have recently had a much wanted and planned baby boy. I found people's desire to talk about my pregnancy a bit strange and would have a stock set of answers (yes I am big, yes I'm all bump, we think he'll be early, no I don't mind a boy or girl).
Equally I find 'congratulations' an odd sentiment as I hadn't really achieved anything.
My friends threw me a baby shower but it was not expected. I now have pregnant friends and while I enjoy talking to them about it, it's about a 10th of our conversation.
My friend had a new kitchen this week and she's sending me photos tomorrow. I'm genuinely interested.

I'll wait for someone to mention the pregnancy.

I truly hope no one does. You really need to learn that you have no right to be centre of attention just because you're pregnant. Though your referral to being an Aries (and the 3/4th Irish bollocks) just shows you really believe any old crap that comes to your mind.

Have you bought the baby any lovely little cashmere gloves? They are a must. Stick them on your wish list for the baby shower.

It's going to kill me to say this, but you technically can be 3/4 something. If one parent is 100% Irish, and the other is, say, half Irish, half whatever, then their children would be 75% Irish.

Also, OP may have a point about the astrology too. She's an Aries and lots of people are allergic to pseudo-scientific bullshit.

I would take a guess that you've been putting your hand on your stomach and pushing yourself up from a chair huffing and puffing since you found out you were expecting?
Pregnancy is great, having a baby is great. But just remember there's always people "one step" ahead of everyone. I was the first of my friends to be married and have a baby. I was also the first to get divorced and have a PFB that went off the rails. I also thought she was destined for great things, I boasted and bragged about everything that she did. But boy, did that come back and bite me on the arse. Just remember the higher you put yourself, the further it is to fall!

Crap, I know you can be 3/4 genetically but that's not what being Irish is about. That's what the American's argue and we call them plastic for a reason.

I'm so hungry right now.

I bet this post is sponsored by Old El Paso...

Fajitas need sour cream. Otherwise they are just a wrap

I don't agree. Don't get me wrong, I love sour cream but guacamole is vegan and perfectly acceptable in a fajita.

Has the op said she doesn't intend to provide cheese/sour cream for those that want it? I assumed she was making the actual fajita mix vegan but it's easy enough to have the non vegan bits on the table.