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Nottingham Post
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Grace Hoffman & Michael Broomhead

Mum deeply hurt as just 1 colleague congratulates her on birth of baby

A new mum has told of her devastation - after only one of her colleagues congratulated her on the birth of her baby. She has taken to popular forum Mumsnet to express her sadness.

The child is now four-months-old - and the mum is still awaiting messages from most of her workmates. According to the Mirror, she captioned her Mumsnet post: "No congratulations on my birth."

She explained: "I've had only one message from a work colleague congratulating me. My baby is four months. Most knew I was pregnant.

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"I'm not really saying that everyone should be fussing over me and cooing over my baby. I think I would have just appreciated a few messages just saying 'congratulations, hope you're OK'.

"I think what hurts more is that two of my work colleagues who I thought I was particularly close to haven't even bothered to message me at all. They have messaged others who have had babies but not me.

Seeking advice, she questioned: "Am I being unreasonable or is it just life get over it?" One person replied: "That's rubbish. Could it be that they're waiting for you to initiate contact because they don't want to disturb you? Have you sent a photo etc?"

Meanwhile, someone else wrote: "As work colleagues we would maybe send a card from us all. I wouldn't contact a work colleague to congratulate them though."

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