So one of the women who I have been chatting with on Mumsnet through the Due in June thread had a stillbirth on Friday. She’d been having some severe pain in her bump for a week or two and the doctors were just calling her a worry wart and neurotic. My heart is breaking for her and her family. She was due about a week before I am, so it hit very close to home.
So many people ask me how I can call people I’ve never met my friends. Well, because I care about them. I am crying for my friend at Mumsnet. We’ve spent the last 24ish weeks talking about nausea and heartburn and baby movements. We’ve discussed furniture and labour and birth plans. We’ve laughed at each other’s cravings and worried when one of us didn’t post for a few days. We are friends. Just much friends as people I actually see every day.
And now my friend is grieving. And so are all the women who post on the June thread at Mumsnet.
Of course they are your friends – just as you are all my friends too.
The woman on the tv saying you can’t form real frienships online didn’t know what she was talking about.
Again, I am very sorry for your friend.