Her latest grid post bothered me and I couldn’t quite put my finger on why, but I think it’s this - she has complained incessantly about this pregnancy, the kind of complaining designed to make everyone around her feel guilty that she’s suffering and they aren’t.
Pregnancy IS hard. I had horrendous pregnancies. But it wasn’t my kids’ fault or my partner’s (other than the obvious
). What Alice fails to realise is that if pregnancy is hard for her, it’s hard for her whole family. Her kids have a mum that’s not fully functioning. Her husband has to pick up the slack with whatever she can’t do. It’s a whole family effort to get through a tough pregnancy! But all she ever does is focus on herself, no acknowledgement of what her kids have sacrificed, no gratitude for her husband, and it feels terribly sad to me.
I look at that photo of her kids with the scan pic and feel so sorry for them. What must they think? Their mum had a shotgun marriage and an instant baby, she’s clearly been a nightmare through the pregnancy…but they are supposed to be excited and think it’s all really special? Poor kids. And weird that there is no mention of her husband, they don’t really strike me as much of a team?