S/O Christmas card post- weird to tell people

IdigDirt

I didn't want to hijack but I see Gymnast and some others feel the same way I do. 

I am not excited about telling people because it feels so weird. If it doesn't come up in conversation I am probably not going to tell people other than my parents. I asked DH to tell his without me there but he said no. I just hate when people get all excited about me, it's so awkward.

I had to tell my boss because of a pesticide issue and he was all excited. It makes no sense to me, he will never see the baby and has to cover for me for 6 weeks. What is he so happy about? 

kerrbear72

Butting in from May but YAY - I feel the same exact way and I am glad to know I am not alone! Its just...awkward!

cvl105

I think it all just depends on personality. I love telling people. I love to see them get excited and it gets me even more excited.  Babies are such wonderful things and just because people may never see the baby, doesn't mean they can't be super happy for you.  They know what a blessing it is and know the joy it brings to people.  I don't mind the attention being on me, which is probably why I don't mind telling people.

ccmarinho

cvl105:

I think it all just depends on personality. I love telling people. I love to see them get excited and it gets me even more excited.  Babies are such wonderful things and just because people may never see the baby, doesn't mean they can't be super happy for you.  They know what a blessing it is and know the joy it brings to people.  I don't mind the attention being on me, which is probably why I don't mind telling people.

This. I agree completely.

IdigDirt

cvl105:

I think it all just depends on personality. I love telling people. I love to see them get excited and it gets me even more excited.  Babies are such wonderful things and just because people may never see the baby, doesn't mean they can't be super happy for you.  They know what a blessing it is and know the joy it brings to people.  I don't mind the attention being on me, which is probably why I don't mind telling people.

I should add that I am a socially weird person and just get weird and frozen when attention is on me. This is probably why it makes me so uncomfortable. 

DaisyJanie

I have been excited to tell most people, especially friends. I was leery of telling my boss, but he was way more excited about it than I thought he would be. Now that I'm telling people like coworkers, aquaintances... I feel weird bringing it up. I share an office with a few people (different people on different days) and we chat fairly often, but for most of the day we just sit silently working. It's really weird to break the silence and be like, "uh... I have news?" At the same time it would also be weird to wait until it's obvious, and they have to ask or something.

My boss said last year there was a girl who worked part time in another department, and she didn't tell anyone until like 8 months. Obviously everybody knew, but they were all like, well if she doesn't mention it, I guess we shouldn't bring it up. Then when she did everyone was like, "Oh really? We had no idea!"

~denise~

I think it is awkward to tell people too. If it doesn't come up in converstation, then I don't say anything. Helll I thought it was awkward to tell my own family!!