Anxious to announce...

rebekahferris

My husband and I just found out we are pregnant with our first baby on Monday!  Being brand new to all this we have no idea when it is good to announce the great news.  I am aware 4 weeks along is quite early to be telling everyone.  Any suggestions on when and how to break the news??

We are considering telling our parents early in some sort of fun way. Appreciate any ideas or things you mommas have already done!

Thanks!

MissEricaK

I honestly think it's personal preference.
Some tell @ 5 weeks, some tell @ 12 weeks. No one can tell you when to do so.
I'm 4 weeks and change and we already told my parents and his- just didn't wanna wait! I also told my best friend.
The rest of the people we will wait a bit longer to tell, but not tons of time- maybe just a few weeks? I just don't wanna wait.. and dh is ok with that, too.

ral1985

We are waiting to tell anyone until we hear the heartbeat, for a few reasons:

1. We have a 4 year old DD who we think we owe it to tell her before anyone else, but we don't want to tell her just in case something were to happen. That would be hard to explain to a 4 year old.

2. 4 weeks along. That is technically 2 weeks from conception.  I mean, the statistics are CRAZY out there, not to scare anyone, but most people wouldn't even know they were pregnant yet.  I say wait as long as you can (which may be TODAY lol) and then only tell the people you would need for support if the worst case scenario happened. 

3. My friend told EVERYONE (even FB friends) and then had a miscarriage.  She had the unfortunate situation of telling each new person who messaged her about her *pregnancy* that she had lost the baby.  That's a lot of explaining to do, when you are already in a pretty dire situation.

 

Fun ways: If you have a pet, you can make a little doggie tshirt that says "I'm a big sister/brother". You could frame a picture of your + HPT and give it to your parents.  You could announce it at Thanksgiving and do something clever like "DH sure did put a bun in MY oven" lol... GL to you!

appylovee

I told at 8 weeks after my second u/s and second hearing of the hb.

cbbsn2008

We are telling after the first ultrasound. We want to tell our parents in person (lives quite a drive away) and won't have a free weekend until the weekend after thanksgivig to drive. After our parents we are going to announce to friends and ext. family. This waiting is sooo hard!

ballerina06

We told our parents only today.  Because we had a m/c in August we are waiting until after we know the pregnancy is viable to tell siblings and we will wait until 12 weeks to tell the rest of the family/friends (we did the same with when I was pg with DS).

minervam830

We found out on Friday night and are spending the entire week in OBX (North Carolina) with both sets of parents. There was NO WAY I could keep it a secret. No alcohol, hot tub, lunch meat, etc...

We decided to get the Tervis cups that say Grandma and Grandpa. We gave my parents theirs when they got to our house and my DH's parents at the beach house. We said "here is a gift to start the week out right". They loved it!

We are not quite sure how far along we are so we are waiting to tell others. DH is deploying near the holiday's so we will be telling everyone before we get to 3 months.

Danaz1

With DD my DH told everyone almost right away.  I didn't tell my friend or announce on facebook until 13 weeks.  We told our parents right away.

We will probably tell his parents this week and I am going to see mine next week.  i made a shirt for DD that says big sister.  As of now DH doesn't even know I just took a test this morning

 

megan777

I'm totally anxious to announce, but I have some reservations - and oddly so does my DH...he has always thought it was silly to wait, but he feels the same way this time. I am due on July 2, according to Dr. Google...I think we'll wait until we have a few more weeks under our belts (haha!) and a heartbeat. I haven't even made an appt yet....  but after that- it's a free for all! It my last babe, so I am going to milk it for all it's worth!