Am I being sensitive or is this shit?

[Woodlandwitch]

Family member who has had 2 ivf babies then got pregnant naturally with the third.

Is very Facebook focused and spent many months in the build up posting about their miracle.

This in itself is fine, but every year she posts an anniversary post of when she took that HPT and says how she’s now happy because she feels like a ‘normal’ woman.

Am I just being sensitive or is that a dickish thing to say?

She’s got hundreds of people on her Facebook, many of which are mothers, many of which she would have met through her first ivf journeys.
Many of which might be going through fertility treatment and not be telling people.

Oh hell no. You aren't being too sensitive.

She gets to feel what she feels, but if they'd anyone who ought to know how much all this stuff sucks, it's someone who's been through it. Shoving that stuff out unfiltered on Facebook means it's for sure going to be seen by people it's hard for.

The anniversary thing is weird.
I think now I’ve been through infertility myself if I do end up with a baby I won’t be putting anything on social media, for the simple fact that I wouldn’t want anyone feeling the way I’ve done through this. Even though it can’t be helped, and it seems in no way anyone’s fault and everyone’s got a right to post pregnancy/baby photos but because it seems make me feel so shit and isolated I hurt know I won’t be doing it if it ever comes my time.
I also just wouldn’t do it because I wouldn’t want my child’s photos on fb ( I’ve never agreed with it tbh) one of my friends posted a photo of her newborns shitty arse and thought It was mortifying.
I would probably not unfriend but unfollow so you don’t see her posts. I think to say she’s now a normal woman is vile and I’m actually surprised any woman would say that at all!
Just know you aren’t alone with the social media bullshit either! I take a break now and again when it gets a bit much. X

Apart from anything else, imagine if one day her older two children read these posts, which will surely come across as 'sorry, darlings, you aren't normal and your existence left mummy feeling unnatural'!

What an idiot. Her, not you!

Thank you all
I’m going to unfollow her so hopefully I don’t see these things

Her thoughts and actions are rather odd. Yeah l can see why you may hide her -l have hid / unfollowed a lot of people in the last 6 months

She should have kept those thoughts to herself, it's definitely a thoughtless thing to say.

She should have kept those thoughts to herself, it's definitely a thoughtless thing to say.

She sounds like a d!ck.

Delete, and move on.
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