I hope you don't mind me answering but I totally remember that feeling and I hated all the facebook updates like "poor me, I can't see my feet when I step on the scales now" etc.
What you're feeling is a natural feeling.
I think there is a baby boom going on, but there is also that thing that once you start TTC/wanting a baby you do suddenly start noticing all the pregnant people around you. I never clocked a one til age 27! Then they were walking down the street, everywhere etc!
Some thoughts that may help: (based on my extensive efforts to stop feeling jealous)
- you never know what other people have gone through to get where they are today. 1 in 4 women have suffered a miscarriage/stillbirth and there can be few things as terrible as losing your baby. Also, miscarriage is a taboo subject so you don't know who these people are. And for all the "it happened the first month" people, there may well be people who have secretly being TTC for much longer than they let on, and are only now getting their good news.
- other people being pregnant / having children aren't preventing you from being pregnant - it's not like there's a limited supply of babies to be born into the world (this thought helped me a little, hence me mentioning it)
- I've been on PF and LTTTC for many years (over 5 years!) and in that time, there are very very few women who didn't eventually go on to have a baby, even if they had a really rocky road. So, even if it feels like there isn't much, even though these people are different and not standing there in your shoes, there is still hope.
- There was one guy who irritated me during his wife's pregnancy on facebook, going on a little too much about the bump etc. Unfortunately that baby died from heart failure during the birth. Another person I knew, who annoyingly kept going on and on and ON about how surprised she was to be pregnant, that it happened on the first month on honeymoon etc, she had her baby and then a couple of years later (while still young and in her 30s) developed cancer (she seems to have recovered). While I obviously never wished these people ill will, you don't know what is going to happen to people and what suffering they may encounter in life. So personally I am trying to cultivate a philosophy of being more glad of the good times for other people, if that makes sense.
You have my sympathy - it IS hard, there is no doubt about it. xxx