Something in the water?

YAAYYY Brooke Shields, Gwyneth Paltrow, Christy Turlington and now Claudia Karvan (Aus actress) are all pregnant with their second babies – anyone else? How wonderful now they will all have perfect nuclear families on top of everything else in their fabulous lives.

I wish we could just get all the announcements out of the way in one go, so I can go back to reading magazines or newspapers as a means of escape, without having to confront my own IF yet again.

Right now you can’t leave your house without tripping over the maximum coverage of the wonderful fairytale of Princess Mary and Frederick – every magazine with the official ‘family’ photo on the cover. I mean Mary leaving the hospital to go home interrupted regular broadcasting on national tv! But everyone sucks it all up and wants more!. Aaaahhh aren’t they perfect? Isn’t it wonderful that she sat in the backseat of the car with her baby? Who cares? Just loved the way she referred to herself as 'one' (snicker!)

It’s filthy enough having to hear announcements from family and friends, but are we expected to be ecstatic at every celebrity pregnancy and birth as well?

The cult of celebrity is so extreme that these announcements have this hideous knock-on effect into our personal space. You can’t go out to dinner or even to work without being dragged into a conversation about the latest star’s pregnancy, whether they look good, do I think they’re having a boy or a girl aaaahhh! Why are these people so much a part of our own lives?

I’m not entirely convinced that my attitude is solely because of our IF. I mean is this what passes for interesting conversation now?

I just want a celebrity to get pregnant and tell everyone that they’ve been through hell to get there, and the only way they coped was by writing a blog and reading everyone else’s. Is it too far fetched to imagine that Brooke or Courtney (the only celebrities to be half-honest about IF) actually got on the internet and read forums and blogs?

I think because we’re going through IF I never publicly express what I really think.

There would be nothing more likely to give away my embittered state than letting the toxic and sarcastic remarks that I’m forever thinking accidentally slip out.

The fact that there are so many pregnant women at my work means that not a day goes past without conversation about babies. If I have to hear one more person say ‘oh there must be something in the water, so many of us are pregnant’! Yeah well guess what - I’ve been drinking my prescribed 1-2 litres of this f****** work-water every day for 3 years, and it’s done nothing for me!

Yep, that'd do it.