My husband's family was not very enthusiastic about our announcement this time around. I was a little bummed about it, but thought oh well.....until I noticed today that his aunt is posting things on facebook about it already. We have not told all of our family yet, let alone an online community!
@Kristalyn85 that's infuriating! I'd be so mad if anyone in my family did that. My DH's aunt did "guess correctly" when talking to his mom one day, but she's swearing up and down that she didn't say anything. I don't really car of she knows, I'll just be ticked if I find out she stole my thunder before DH and I do our reveal on July 4th to his family, and then later we're doing a "social media reveal" for the rest of our friends and family who don't live close and/or don't know yet.
We didn't necessarily have a weird reaction but we had to read it to my in laws for them to get it. They just tried to play it off like it was a cute family picture.
I didn't have any strange reactions, but a little while after I told my mom, I was talking about how I couldn't button some of my pants at only 8 weeks and she's like, "well with all of mine, I was able to wear my normal clothes all the way until I was about 4 months!" Thanks mom, now I feel like a whale.
Everyone in our family was super excited. We texted my SIL and expected a very excited text but nothing for 2 days, and she's glued to her phone and doesn't have a busy job so there's no way she did see it. Finally we got a "Congrats, thats exciting for you guys". I wanted to say its exciting for you too, its your first niece/nephew. My theory is she's mad we beat her to it, she 7 years older than me, has been married for 6 years and has been with her husband for 17 years so I guess she thought we were gonna let her go first whenever she was good and ready lol
Or maybe she's been "good and ready" for a long time and is struggling with infertility or losses. Maybe she's not mad that you beat her to it, but hurt by every pregnancy announcement, whether that's rational or not.
DS: June 2008 Married: July 2015 BFP: 5/20/16 | EDD: 1/28/17 | Twin boys born 1/16/17
We finally told everyone this weekend, and most of the reactions were normal and positive. My MIL did burst into tears because she wasn't going to get to 'be in the delivery room' in January (because they live in another state). Lady, you weren't going to be in there anyway.
We told my in laws this weekend and my father in law said absolutely nothing and hardly even looked at us. Everyone else we have told has had great reactions though at least
My parents were pleased as punch but very calm about it. Typical Irish really. No drama in our house. I love watching the pregnancy reveals on YouTube where the Americans jump and scream with excitement.
My parents were ecstatic when we told them the news even though it was completely unexpected. However my in-laws were just like "oh okay. Congrats!" I kind of expected that reaction from them because they're not very enthusiastic people. However, when we told them the due date my FIL stated that it was "really inconvenient timing" because they were planning on booking a cruise. I got so angry at him and told him to go ahead and book it because I didn't need his negative energy around when I'm giving birth to my first child.
@itsmeraffyv so he was mad that they are theoretically planning a cruise then? They haven't even booked it yet? OMG. That makes it even more ridiculous. Glad you told him off!
@ashanne88 lol yes. He was upset over a cruise that to this day has not been booked. He's a very negative person in general so I'm honestly not surprised that he said something so ridiculous.
@itsmeraffyv oh girl. I'd have been so mad too! I've gotten lots of comments about how a birthday so close to Christmas will suck, but my birthday is the same week as my due date and I never had trouble with its proximity to Christmas. Or comments on how I may have to share my birthday with my baby. Weirdos.
@katesmama0706 that is very weird! In my opinion, sharing a birthday with your baby makes it more special. I got those comments too before we had our official u/s (the due date would have been Christmas day based on my LMP). I've come to find that people make really inappropriate comments sometimes when it comes to pregnancy. I'm trying not to let it get to me but it's hard lol!
@katesmama0706 my son is a December baby and I got comments relentlessly about how much a December birthday would suck (and to be honest it sort of does. But, we do everything we can to make sure his birthday is separate from Christmas). I was so relieved when I got a January due date with this one. However, even though we're all technically due in January, some of us will pop in December.
@itsmeraffyv shared birthdays are so fun! My birthday is very close to my mother's and grandmother's birthdays, and it was always a special time for us!
My SIL and I are actually pretty close, best friends even. We had our daughters 4 weeks apart 5 years ago. Both have been only children up until we were blessed with a second. When my SIL found a pregnancy book lying out that I forgot to put away, her first words after asking if we were pregnant were, "Well how am I going to explain that to (her daughter). She was ok being the only child because yours was the only child too." I didn't even know what to say. It's really not my problem, and I won't apologize about having a second child when she knew we had been trying for 10 months. I was a little shocked that it would be her first reaction.
When we told my in-laws, my MIL started crying and got really excited (we're on #2). My FIL, however, proceeded to tell me a story about his kitchen renovation before my DH made fun of him and he was like "oh yeah - exciting stuff." haha!
My husband's grandma said I can't believe it, I thought you couldn't get pregnant. lol
i seem to be able to get pregnant extremely easily, though i have had 2 mmc last year that she doesn't know about. not sure where she got the idea i couldn't get pregnant though.
Re: Strange Reactions to Pregnancy Announcement
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BFP: 5/20/16 | EDD: 1/28/17 | Twin boys born 1/16/17
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I got those comments too before we had our official u/s (the due date would have been Christmas day based on my LMP). I've come to find that people make really inappropriate comments sometimes when it comes to pregnancy. I'm trying not to let it get to me but it's hard lol!
Jan17 Sept Sig: Pumpkin Spice gone too far
i seem to be able to get pregnant extremely easily, though i have had 2 mmc last year that she doesn't know about. not sure where she got the idea i couldn't get pregnant though.