For those of you waiting to share the news....

ablabs

are you going to tell after your 12 week appointment?  After your NT around the same time?  13 weeks?  14?  Longer?  just curious!

MarJo03

We're waiting until after we see the baby and hear the heartbeat. So around 10 weeks is when we'll tell everyone.

iris427

I'm waiting until the end of the first trimester.  We've already seen the heartbeat and the baby wiggling around on an ultrasound, but I'm paranoid.

ablabs

MarJo03:

We're waiting until after we see the baby and hear the heartbeat. So around 10 weeks is when we'll tell everyone.

 oh ok...i got to see the baby/heartbeat at 6w5d so told immediate family and a couple close girlfriends after that, but waiting to tell others until at least 12 week appointment....

ablabs

iris427:

I'm waiting until the end of the first trimester.  We've already seen the heartbeat and the baby wiggling around on an ultrasound, but I'm paranoid.

 me too.... are you considering end of first trimester 12 weeks?  13?  14?

alliejoe

We're telling in stages- I told DH, Mom, and friend at work almost immediately. 

We told my Dad, Grandma, DH's parents and siblings, and  a couple other really close friends after the first u/s and heartbeat. 

We plan on telling friends and other people after the first trimester, probably about 12 weeks.  I teach and I'm hoping to keep this under wraps from my nosey high school students as long as possible. 

 

 

katie110505

I have my first appointment around 10 weeks and we will hopefully hear the h/b with the doppler then. We will tell people a week or two after that.

Hels

I'm really conflicted.  I wanted to wait until after the NT scan (12 weeks-ish), but I'm starting to feel like a total lier.  Our friends are straight up asking if I'm pregnant, and I just look at them and say "No".  It's getting annoying.  I'm hoping to make it to 10 weeks...   I haven't been feeling well and feel like I've been in radio silence and neglecting my friendships. I really want people to know there's a reason I'm MIA.

meghanchrisaz

I think we will probably start sharing the news around Thanksgiving.  But, I kind of want to announce it in our Christmas cards. I usually order them a couple days after Thanksgiving.  

pinkflipflops44

Our first appt is now next week and I kind of wanted to wait til after my SILs wedding to tell and since I moved my appt now I can wait another week and not deal with the inlaws.  But most likely will announce after the appt.

Alwaysusie

We saw the heartbeat at 6w2d, but we are waiting until our next u/s at 10w3d.  After that, if all goes well, we will "tell the world."  As of right now the only people who know are my parents.

RinnyAnne

We told our families right away, and then we were going to wait until our u/s at 11 weeks.

But then...

I went to the hospital last week for bleeding (was totally fine) and found out about the twins.  Seeing those two precious blobby babies with their strong beating hearts was just too much for me.  I couldn't keep it a secret any longer!   We called up all of our friends that night and showed off u/s pics to coworkers the next day.

Yesterday, I even blurted it out to the facebook community.  :-O  

The only people who don't know are the 70 kids who go to the after school program that I run.  I figure that they don't need to know until I'm showing. 

 

ablabs

Hels:

I'm really conflicted.  I wanted to wait until after the NT scan (12 weeks-ish), but I'm starting to feel like a total lier.  Our friends are straight up asking if I'm pregnant, and I just look at them and say "No".  It's getting annoying.  I'm hoping to make it to 10 weeks...   I haven't been feeling well and feel like I've been in radio silence and neglecting my friendships. I really want people to know there's a reason I'm MIA.

 i know how you feel... i felt so bad about "avoiding" people and "lying"....so i had to tell a couple close girlfriends.

robbie3982

We're waiting until the NT scan.  I'll be just under 12 weeks.  We haven't decided if we're waiting for the results or not before we tell though.

AMYRENEE27

After the NT scan at 13 wks. Immediate family and close friends already know but that is it.

It is a battle with my closet everyday since I already have a belly (call it bloat or whatever you want but it's there!!).

sdlaura

The plan is for 14 weeks, since that's when we'll see family at Thanksgiving.  But assuming we have a good ultrasound next week, we might move that up.  The main motivation for Thanksgiving is that my Dad is dying for a grandchild and it would be awesome to get to tell him in person (we live 3,000 miles apart), so I think that will be motivation enough to wait....

jwpbride

We're waiting to tell friends (and FB) until we hear the heartbeat which may be at 11 weeks, maybe the next appointment (my dr doesn't do early u/s unless there is a problem, so I don't get one until 20 weeks). 

Raquellyo

We're waiting until we're through the first trimester and it should fall right around Thanksgiving.  We are hosting both families and plan to share the news then.  I already hinted that I'd love to get a big family picture (since both families haven't been together since our wedding) and we plan to set everyone up and get the camera on a timer.  We want to do 1 picture where we go "Everyone say cheese!" and then we want to do one more where we go "Ok everyone, say '<my name>'s pregnant!" and hope to get a comical picture out of it capturing their reactions.

 

jeffrae

I waited for two u/s and then after I heard the hb with my dopper at 10+ weeks.  Just made announcement yesterday.  I choose 10 weeks since I am starting to show (#2 baby) and I am not doing NT so I really don't have that 12 week milestone to hit.

eawebster

I initially wanted to wait until our NT scan, but apparently my OB office doesn't do them until 18 weeks. We had a very successful u/s yesterday, but I think we may wait until my 12 week appointment when we can hear the heartbeat again. That being said, our immediate family and very close friends (those that are like family) and our bosses all know. 12 weeks would basically be making it FB official and telling the extended family.

MaybeBaby2

We have been telling somewhat to a selected few. I saw the baby again yesterday and that was definitely reassuring to feel like we can tell more. Though the hemmorrhage has given us some hesitation now. Our plan is to share it openly after my 12wks NT scan U/S .