There can be a great, deep chasm between women who have experienced fertility problems and those who have not.
It can be easy, if you’ve never been there, to say something offhand that will slice right through a woman who’s suffered a miscarriage, or who’s been struggling to fall pregnant.
This is never more the case than on April Fool’s Day.
It might feel like innocent fun to pretend you’re pregnant in a social media post on the world’s number one day of pranks.
But, for someone existing an eternity away in experience, it will not feel humourous or harmless. It will feel like a punch in the gut, and the wind – for the umpteenth time – will be knocked entirely out of her chest.
“This is what it looks like to have a miscarriage,” Kayla Lee Welch posted to Facebook last year, though the post has resurfaced again ahead of April 1.
“This is why your April Fool’s joke isn’t funny. This is why it’s not funny to lie and joke about being pregnant.
“A week ago today I started spotting. I convinced myself it was normal because I did it with Keegan. This time it wasn’t. I avoid laying down to go to sleep because as soon as I hit the bed I’m alone with all of my thoughts.”
In vivid detail, Welch detailed her broken heart.
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The day is coming (fast) where we will all need to live in silence while fearing the PC police knocking on our doors. Every one of us has topics that are sensitive for various reasons but life goes on. I do not like how this world is progressing and frankly feel that the cons of social media are starting to outweigh the pros. The idea of a robotic world without any emotion doesn't sound too appealing to me. I pity my kids and what the future holds for them. :(
It is a joke fools. If we worried about offending anyone we’d never do anything and humour would be outlawed.
If you choose to link a pregnancy prank with your own misfortune, that is your problem.
But then again, that’s the point, they like getting more people to feel sorry for them & divert the attention on to them.
Have some compassion ffs. Joking about pregnancy isn't funny.