To be fed up with pregnancy announcements

[pregahes]

Literally just that.

Bitter post yes, but I've had enough of them. They make me angry after five years of infertility,

I know how you feel. I always always outwardly display happiness for anyone announcing a pregnancy. No one will ever know how I really feel.
But after years of infertility and now in my 40s i am now accepting it will never be my turn and that hurts so much.
I think even when some people are going through infertility but are quite young you still always have that hope deep down that one day it will be you. I was the same. It still hurt 5-10 years ago when people announced pregnancy but I told myself one day it will be me. But now I can't really tell myself that anymore.
So each announcement I smile and hug and congratulate. Then I go home and cry.
I would never expect anyone not to announce and be happy for themselves. But that doesn't make it not hurt. And I'm not ashamed to admit that. I don't know if it ever will get easier. I'm hoping it will.
But for now I just pretend I'm fine with not having kids when asked. I smile and nod and agree when parents tell me how lucky I am that I get to sleep in and go on holidays (I don't mention that after spending 30k + on fertility treatment I can't afford holidays and won't do for many years) and I join in with everyone congratulating new pregnancies.
But yes. It really really fucking hurts.

We had a long journey to a baby, not fertility related (it turns out there are other reasons folks have to wait) but it was very difficult to see others' announce their pregnancies.

When I became pregnant I didn't want to announce, partly because I had hated announcements but also because it's not really my style. I tend to use social media to share a particular activity that I am involved in and to connect with others interested in that activity. But I also didn't want to stop posting about my hobby just because it was increasingly obvious that I was pregnant. I didn't want to hurt others feelings but I also didn't think I should be "banned" from social media just because I was pregnant... don't know if that made me a hypocrite..?

To make it clear, I don’t think pregnancy announcements should be banned and I don’t think k the OP or other posters who have empathised think that either. We are just saying how we feel (or in my case felt) about them.