Considerate About Feelings

I might get a lot of hate for this but oh well 🤷🏾‍♀️ it really annoys me when women who can’t conceive make women who are pregnant or have kids feel guilty for complaining about their pregnancy or parenthood. While I was pregnant my best friend was also trying to get pregnant but wasn’t able to and every time we talked and I was being honest about how my back hurt, or my feet were swollen or something she’d always say things like “at least you can have kids”, or “I’d take my feet aching anytime just to have a baby” so throughout my pregnancy I’d be walking on eggshells around her, and after I had my son and those first few months were incredibly hard and I needed someone to confide in besides my husband, I always had to tell her everything with parenting was fine just to not upset her. I wish every women who wants a child could conceive in a heartbeat, but unfortunately it doesn’t work like that. Let’s be honest being pregnant is such a life changing time for a women and parenting gets hard as sh*t! We should feel free to complain and express or frustrations with pregnancy and parenting without fear of upsetting someone who can’t conceive or is having trouble ttc. Don’t get me wrong, I’m definitely not saying don’t we shouldn’t be considerate about what women who conceive are going through and that their feelings aren’t justified, but also be considerate of what pregnant women go through and how hard parenting is.