Telling infertile colleague I'm pregnant

[lockdownbabyx]

Just as the title says really. She's been trying for a baby for over 5 years and is starting ivf treatment later this year.

We're a small team and one of the other girls have announced they are pregnant. She took it well initially when told of the pregnancy but has admitted to me recently that once home from work it really hit her and she couldn't get out of bed for 2 days.
I'm now pregnant aswell (only 5 week) so I won't be mentioning anything yet. But I just keep thinking about when the time comes and wanted some advice on how to break the news to her. I know it will be hard for her to hear and I want to be as sensitive as I can.

@SingingSands thank you ☺️

One of my colleagues just an experienced a significant bereavement and the pregnant one somehow managed to work her pregnancy into the condolence email?!

You are a kind friend/colleague.
The brutal truth is that women will get pregnant and have little babies, and some people will be heartbroken.
But you can be pleased for someone else at the same time.
I know, because I'm one that could never have children.
Congratulations @lockdownbabyx

When I was struggling with secondary infertility, a close friend who I had supported through her 3 years of primary infertility was pregnant for the 2nd time. She was an artist and decided to apply for lottery funding to celebrate her pregnancy through performing arts. Not only that, but there was a public fundraising appeal to match fund her application and a video to go with it. We aren't friends anymore.

That is awful and I say that as someone has coming dangerously close to writing a musical about IVF a few nights

I sympathise. Mine would be "Clomid: The Musical."