Author: 
Mom2GCNJ
ID: 
087
Type of Post: 
discussion
Keywords: 
God, Christian
Religious Affiliation: 
unknown
Type of Loss: 
stillbirth
Codes (Bakker): 
Age at time of post: 
41
Living children at time of post?: 
yes
Time Since Loss: 
1 year, 7 months
Months since loss (at time of post): 
19
Gender: 
F
Images in Post: 
NA
Date of Post: 
3/30/2010
Date of Access: 
6/23/2012
Number of Comments: 
NA
URL of post: 
http://www.glowinthewoods.com/discussion/post/1055904#post1056771

Pregnancy and living child mentioned)

Steph, I'm with Julie. The post in question would be perfectly appropriate for you to claim as your own. Perhaps you can turn your hurt into an opprotunity to teach others how you want to be treated - as the mother you are.

I did not enter the FB world until after Noah's death. I can't say that it has been all positive for me, but over all I enjoy the time I spend there. I am actually more upset about friends whose political views are either (in my opinion) poorly informed or completely divergent from my own. Those folks I need to hide.

I post about Noah on FB. I have a charcoal image of him that I sometimes use as my profile picture. I mentioned him on his birthday, and posted pictures of his decorated grave at Christmas. I posts links of interest to the babylost. Several of my friends usually offer kind comments.

However, there is one acquaintance of mine on FB who always seems to post things that rub me the wrong way. We were pregnant this last summer at the same time. In fact my "rainbow" baby and her second daughter were born a week apart. I don't know her well but she is, apparently, a very conservative Christian, and her posts about "God's will" and her family being "blessed by God" just irritate the heck out of me - irrationally so. My thought process goes along the lines of - why does she think she is so special? And - doesn't she understand there is a flip side to God's shiny happy plans? And why exactly did God plan for my sweet baby boy to rot in the ground? I read her posts as "HaHa God likes me better than you!" It also really really bugs me that she got to thoughtlessly enjoy being pregnant at the exact same time that I was white-knuckling it through the most harrowing 37w5d of my life. I feel a twinge of this "insult" with most pregnant women I meet - but this one woman, for some reason, drives me to distraction with the blissfulness of her ignorance - I read it as spiteful arrogance instead of the luck of the draw and I really can't say for sure why. Thank God for that "hide" button :0)

Peace to you all.

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