Just that really! I am the eldest in a team of around 11 ladies who all work in an open plan office. My ‘children’ are now 22 and 19 so childbirth was a long time ago for me, for some of the other ladies it’s been more recent as we are a large range of ages.
One of my colleagues has recently announced her pregnancy, it’s a bit of a surprise as she nor her husband who is quite a bit older than her (she’s 39) have shown the slightest bit interested in having children - in fact when we’ve all socialised as a group he’s always been more than irritated by having small children around.
Knowing this, some of the other ladies on the team have quite enjoyed regaling tales of long, horror labours, birth injuries, babies with colic, no sleep for 3 years etc - all the worse sides to childbirth and babies. To be fair to pregnant colleague she’s taking it all quite ok and just says that whatever will be etc. I’m getting quite annoyed on her behalf though as it all feels a bit mean. Why do some women do this? I’m trying to balance things by saying that everyone finds their way in the end and it’s a lovely time, life changing but amazing etc. When I reminded one of the girls about not frightening her she said she should know everything warts and all so she’s prepared etc. Not sure I agree!
Any thoughts?