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.

Eithne reminds me of how difficult it is to pronounce Aoife.

Jeremy is cute, he reminds me of a Geography teacher.

I was the first of my friends to own a ra-ra skirt back in the 80's!

Well, my mam and dad lumped me with the most boring English name ever, I was going to be cooler than that. And like I said, most people don't even know that's her first name.

But please, OP. If you want your friends to visit post baby, you need to tone it down.

I'm 13 weeks and haven't told any of my friends. I think they'll thank me for it. You sound like a looney toon.

Mine have unpronounceable Irish names. I reckoned it was s cunning plan by DH to keep them here forever ....

My kids are older now; are considerate, polite, individuals, much of the time. I took them shopping and chose their clothes. #choiceparentingfail

a little Irish name humour.

Wild I've had an awful evening arguing with ex and that cheered me up no end

m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUteMtNhe3g This is also good. Americans try to pronounce Irish names.

I had to read the open post three times
Bloody three times. My chicks ache. Ffs

I had to skip to the end. I Could not continue reading it. Glad your choosing names.

Oh my days thats hilarious, cackling like a loon here

I know someone called Eilidh (Scottish) most people cant work it out.

I CAN PRONOUNCE EITHNE and Aoife and Caoimhe.

How's everyone with Caoilfhionn?

Is that you, Jeremy?

I just spat fajita all over the screen.

Hope the baby shower invitation and gift list includes a poem.

'choice parenting' ?

Jeeze what if the little snowflakes never want to leave the fecking house?

Bugger that, if I have to do the food shop then so do they they are eating the damm stuff

Re: Irish names - has anyone seen the episode of Castastrophe where Rob is trying to pronounce his daughter's name (Muireann) Fucking hilarious.

Earth-Knee???? I've got that wrong, haven't I? How do you pronounce it?

Agree with a PP that OP is very enamoured with her SILs

BTW, I think "choice parenting" = offer a clear choice and a consequence and not (as suggested) giving children a free reign.
Choice parenting to me is: "you're using your outside voice inside and running in the house, so you can go outside and shout/yell/run all you want, or you can stay inside and use a quieter voice and walk. If you carry on shouting and yelling and running inside the consequence will be xxx"

Amazing.

OP you are something else, please come back after vegan fajita friday and let us know how it went.

Just caught up.

The bridesmaid bit 🤦🏽‍♀️

Mikey easy-peasy! How about Aifric? Siofra?

Easy Peasy. Sadhbh or Naoise

Choice parenting!!!! Oh heck you are going to popular at toddler groups and with the teachers at school

Mikey Medb

Yeah I'm still stuck on you claiming to be 3/4s Irish.

While technically you may be, you're all plastic. While (some) of us Irish may have shame, as in we speak our mind a lot; we do have standards. And by jaysus as an irish mammy I would be mortified if you were mine. I would have knocked seven shades of shite out of ya well before you got pregnant given how you carry on.

Well my nanny would have. I'm too young to be your mother (thank christ).

As an aside you two are putting us to shame as well. The amount of ye and no mention of any soliders...tut tut tut

Now back a few pages I go to finish catching up...

May have NO shame* ffs

Ruadhán, if we're talking Ninja's.
Gearoid
Aifric
Aoibhinn and it's variations
Tadhgh
Brían (and don't pronounce that as Brian, because the fada makes a massive difference)
Saoirse

The soldier comment was meant for Gaelic and Wild. My apologies for the missing words. Sleep depravation has killed all but the last few remaining brain cells my children left me with.