AIBU to get butt-hurt about pples reaction to my pregnancy ?!..

[Littlehouseonthepraririe]

Am pregnant with my 6th! I want to share the good news on facebook, not with a fanfare or some obscure balloon riddled/ cryptic sign (tho I do enjoy other pples announcements like that)! But just with a standard f.b post as we have a lot of friends /fam all over the world (and mainly because I'm excited)!

However, when I shared the news of our 5th along with the congratulations I had a Lot of OMG ur mental/ mad etc comments.

Would I look weird if along with sharing the news I tagged on a little light hearted something like ' we know the Waltons life isn't for everyone and we might seem a bit bonkers, but we are really excited to introduce a new member to our clan'.. In the hope that it will ward off What's Wrong With You type comments ?!?

We have a large home for lots of children and my OH works from home so the children aren't lacking in time or space etc and they are always asking for more siblings, and this is the life I've Always wanted, so I don't really Get why pple would write comments like I had last time..
I mean I have lots of friends travelling in the back of beyond or moving up the corporate ladder , which personally is my idea of hell, but I am genuinely happy that they are happy and following their dreams, so obviously just write positive, congratulatory comments when they announce they've landed in a new country / got a promotion..
Am I being butt-hurty and overly sensitive unnecessarily , and would it look rude for me to write something jokey in an attempt to ward off the bat shit crazy comments..?

Ugh typos!

*conversations
*out-catastrophise

6 sounds like my idea of a nightmare and I would think no ways would I want that BUT I would never say anything except a congratulations. It's not my business to give you my opinion.

Surely the last few posts may have illuminated to the op and other parents of 5 plus families why not everyone is unconditionally thrilled at the announcement of a sixth child.

Nyx1 there is such a horror film "mother" with Jennifer Lawrence. Dh and I saw it recently - tough viewing but makes you think about reality of too many people (a nightmare)..

Ra - where are these people who catastrophise? I don't know any. I'd like to meet some

Kerala, um, no, I haven't seen that film but I know what happens and I will not be watching it! I was more picturing people losing their minds and killing each other just to thin out the population.

I watched that documentary on overpopulation. He said that global population would flatten out at 11bn. That is 4bn more people than we have now! It wasn't all 'we'll all be fine'. We will have to ration resources, maybe severely cut down on our consumption, eat artificially grown food and find new protein sources. People who have several children depend on other people not doing the same as them to ensure their hundreds of descendents don't have to live in a world without food.

@Kerala

Aw this is such a derail, but now you’ve gone and mentioned it... I thought that movie was very tough viewing, but complex.

Did you interpret it as the man being God, Jennifer Lawrence being Mother Earth, the house being Earth and the baby the messiah? I have to admit I needed someone to explain lots of it to me! What was the heart? Someone said they thought JL was the muse and the man was the artist and when he’s completely used her and she’s created the art for him (the baby / house?) he starts again with a new muse (the heart)?

Nyx

Raised "People who have several children depend on other people not doing the same as them to ensure their hundreds of descendents don't have to live in a world without food."

yes - or at current standards, just like a pp said about a small family who can't get into a nearby school or on a GP list etc etc.

I am weeping for the future state of your bladder control - 3 did for mine!

OP, you've had three times as many children as the average UK family. Would you be happy to wake up tomorrow and find that the UK population had trebled as well, i.e a population of 200 million, and if so, why not?

Exactly Museum - any behaviour where if everyone did it everything would sort of collapse is for me the definition of selfish. Ie most people queue, a few push in. Most people pay tax, a few dodge it. If we all pushed in or dodged tax the system breaks down. Because most of us toe the line a few are enabled not to. I find it annoying. Sorry probably just me.

BythePowerofRa exactly yes thats the meaning. But I was thinking of the end when more and more and more people pour in and it is like a version of hell...

Ah yeah that makes sense.

and if so, why not?

if not, why?

My OH is the youngest of 5. Absolutely hated it. I see MIL writing all over facebook how her children loved a busy house and are all best friends as adults. It's utter bollocks.

Somehow it only seems to be those with unusually large families who bang on about how happy and productive their kids are. Seems like the old protesting too much thing.

With apologies to you OP: I did post something more sensible on the thread earlier.
This was on my watched items and I misread as 'Butthurt about PILES reaction to my pregnancy' which actually makes more sense but needs a TMI.

Even if you don’t receive ‘government handouts’ you realise you’re still costing the taxpayer a lot and damaging the environment to boot? Have lots of children or don’t, but don’t think just cos you’re a vegan and not on benefits that somehow makes it ok for you and not for others.

6 DC is the perfect number. I so would have had six, but my car and house were full after 3 and my bank account empty

There will always be negative people..my DH will ask "why do they want three DC?" When someone announces their third pregnancy, and I have to remind him we have 3 DC!