To think this pregnancy reveal is cringey?

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Friend invited us over yesterday (group of 6) and then she asked us to play a board game.

One friend lifted the lid to reveal the scan photo and then the big announcement

I’m happy for my friend but I just don’t understand why the big reveal ...

Is she happy?

Clearly.

Are you happy for her?

Clearly not.

Well I agree with lamagreyhound tbh, attention seekers bleurgh.

I think all you've demonstrated is that you're actually quite childish. Saying a friend is 'BOOOORING' is actually what I'd expect from kids in the primary school playground tbh.

"Are you happy for her"
Clearly not.

What law is there that says you have to be happy for pregnant women.
Okay so op may not care but she doesn't have to care

If there were only 6 of you I'd guess you were a close friend who she trusts with this information. You seem very mean.

Of course she doesn't have to care. I'm just answering the question of whether or not she does. She doesn't, fair enough. However, if you don't care about someone's pregnancy, indeed use it as an opportunity for mockery, perhaps you should not pretend to be their friend?

No obviously you don't have to be happy for pregnant women in general. But if you're a good friend, you would be happy that they were happy surely? At any rate, you wouldn't ridicule them online.

People are a bit odd sometimes, I remember years back a colleague/friend at the time invited me and my husband to lunch to announce to us they were trying for a baby

Ok, if that really was the reason they invited you and not just something that came up in conversation (which would not be weird if you were close mates), then yes, that is a bit odd.

Yes, that would be odd, if they invited you around to reveal that to you, @DesertSky and it didn't just come up in conversation. (Although if you weren't close friends why would they talk about something so personal?)

But in the OP's case, they were seemingly close friends so that's not weird at all. And announcing a pregnancy isn't odd, unlike announcing that you will be trying to get pregnant, which is very weird.

Yes the pregnancy announcement is far less weird! I can see how they thought it was a fun way to tell friends. My incident was v different, in a lunch break and suddenly declared to us. It was pretty uncomfortable really!