She’s Heartbroken And Angry That Her Brother And His Wife Announced Their Pregnancy Two Weeks After She Lost Her Baby
I’ve heard that one of the biggest emotional hurdles a couple struggling to have a baby faces is seeing other people in their lives get pregnant very easily.
One woman got angry at her brother after finding out about his wife’s pregnancy two weeks after having to tragically terminate her own.
She’s married and has been trying to have a baby with her husband for over a year. They’ve seen many doctors, and she’s even had to go to a hypnotist to try and stop obsessing over pregnancy.
A few months ago, just as she and her husband were about to start IVF, she got pregnant. They were over the moon, but things took a horrible turn.
Halfway through her pregnancy, she and her husband had to terminate the pregnancy because their baby’s brain was not developing properly, and it would’ve had no chance of surviving once born.
She ended up having to give birth to the baby early in order to let it go safely, and it was the hardest thing she and her husband had ever had to do. No words can explain what that was like for them, and they’ll never be the same.
“Entering into a hospital pregnant and leaving with nothing but a box of paperwork and some pills is an unspeakably terrible trauma I wouldn’t wish upon anyone,” she said.
Two weeks after losing her baby, she was just barely beginning to feel like herself again and get out of bed. But then, she found out that her brother and his wife were expecting their second child and were seven weeks pregnant. Her mother broke the news to her since her brother didn’t want to tell her directly.
At first, she was heartbroken to hear this news. Then, she became angry.
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She couldn’t figure out why her brother and sister-in-law announced the pregnancy before she was 12 weeks along, like many couples do.
They waited until 12 weeks with their first daughter, but this time they decided to announce it early.
“I felt like it was unintentionally cruel to announce it so soon after my baby’s death,” she explained.
Her baby hadn’t been cremated yet, so hearing the news of her brother’s new baby so soon took a massive toll on her.
She can’t help but feel offended, especially because she and her brother are so close, and he knows so much about what she’s gone through over the last year.
She felt so betrayed by how her brother and sister-in-law announced her new baby that she sent them a very angry text message.
She told them they were cruel and that if their roles were reversed, she would have waited to announce the news a few weeks longer in order to let them heal.
“They could [have] at the very least waited until the next month,” she added.
“I never congratulated them on their pregnancy and told them that our relationship was over and to not contact me.”
She hasn’t spoken to her brother since sending the text, and her mom is making her question whether or not she was too harsh.
Her mom said it wouldn’t have mattered when her brother announced he was expecting another baby, it still would hurt, and she’d have to work through it.
Was she too quick to send that angry text, or should she be allowed to cope with this news however she needs to?
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