hey silly sister. Your thread really interests me as I think I might be experiencing what you are feeling from the perspective of the younger sister. I"m 5 months pregnant with my first, and my elder (by 4 years) sister has two already. She was the first person I told about my pregnancy, and I told her when I was 5 weeks. She reacted as you describe you feel, excited and supportive, but certainly broody, saying that she couldn't give me her baby stuff as she'd love another, offering to look after the newborn so I could go to glastonbury, ringing me up everyday to ask about everything, wanting scan photos.
I was initially very unhappy about the pregnancy as it was a big surprise at a very difficult time, so her excitement and support was great. But recently it's all gone weird. She told me about a month about that she's pregnant too. And she's 7 weeks behind me, which means she got pregnant after I told her that I was expecting. She has now totally changed her tune too, saying that she's devastated, had never wanted another baby, is disgusted at the whole idea and refuses to talk about the pregnancy atall. Which means I can't now talk about my pregnancy or be excited to her. She also gets very ill when she's pregnant and therefore is now the focus of my families concerns.
I feel really really weird. totally usurped and confused as to why she would do this? I'm presuming that when she heard I was pregnant broodyness took over, and she lost her mind for a while. And now that she's found it she's regreting it?
I'm trying really hard to look at the positives, like how nice it'll be for our babys to have a cousin so close in age. And that maybe we will bond over being in a similar position. But at the moment she's totally shutting me out. and I'm also really sad and angry and confused. Can you give me a better perspective?