A Depressing Lack Of Compassion

My sister-in-law has invited my daughter and me to a kids’ group at her church. Afterward, we are talking with another mom. For reference, my sister-in-law has two sons and the other mom has three.

Mom: *Pointing to my daughter* “So, how old is she?”

Me: “She’ll be two at the end of next month.”

Mom: “Are you going to have more kids?”

Me: “We’ll see. I had really bad postpartum depression, and I don’t want to go through that again, so she might be an only child.”

Mom: *Laughs* “All moms have postpartum depression! It’s normal. Besides, you had a girl first.”

Me: “Yeah, that’s not how that works.”

I declined the next time we were invited.