Holiday pregnancy announcements being unexpectedly hard to see?

So, I’m posting anonymously because you never know who’s on the app!

We had a chemical/MC a few months ago which was disappointing of course and have had negatives since. In our friend group, we’re all couples and the boys have all been friends since high school. Well the month before our chemical, one of the couples announced they were pregnant (very early, like 4-6 weeks) and the NEXT DAY had a miscarriage. They were understandably very upset. We felt for them of course and didn’t know they were trying and hadn’t told anyone we were trying. So we decided to wait to share our news just in case… and then that ended up happening to us too.

Well, another couple in our group just posted their pregnancy announcement with baby #2 and it’s adorable! Literally mine and my husbands dream announcement, we’d been talking about doing a Christmas tree/little who is due type thing and that’s exactly what they did too. It’s precious!

I am not upset about them being pregnant or anything AT ALL, but I was just surprised how much it stung to see it from someone “close” to us and feeling like we should be able to make that announcement now too. No resentment towards them, just sadness for us and the other couple).

I don’t know the reason for this post, just to vent I guess. When thinking of ideas for announcements and being excited about getting pregnant, we never through how it would feel to see it from the other side like this and I guess I just wasn’t expecting it to hurt.