Reactions from family and friends

Sept1799

When you told your family and friends that you and your significant other are expecting what were their reactions? Of course if they were happy and all positive you were happy as well. But if they were negative or hurtful what did you do? What did you say?

annak23

Mine were all positive.  I think they were waiting forever for DH & I to make the announcement! lol!

stacynikki

Thankfully we had nothing but positive reactions but I would think it really crappy if anyone ever got a negative reaction.  Unless it was an unwed teenage kid.  Then I think that is just expected. 

I'm really sorry if that is the reaction you got.  Is there any reason why?

excitedtobemrs

ILs: "maybe now we'll get our girl."

b*tches.

getnmarried910

My parents-excited, thrilled, etc.

MIL-asked if it was a good thing, said she wanted us to pay our school bills off first (we'd never have kids if we waited that long!), and was pouty about it because at 56 years old she was "too young to be a grandma." (My mom was 45 and was so ready. 

FIL felt the same way as MIL, but we don't have much of a relationship with him anyway. 

This pretty much destroyed my relationship with my MIL, and made DH's relationship with her rocky.  She and I were having problems already with her control issues, but this sent me over the edge.  We haven't gotten along since then.  When I was mid-pregnancy, she said she hoped we had a girl because she didn't want a boy.  Said the same thing when I was pregnant with DS and she's always treated him differently.

Reagan's Mommy

The reaction we got wasn't negative, exactly, but it wasn't what we expected.  The very first time I met MIL, she asked me when we were going to give her grandbabies.  (I had only been dating her son for 3 months!!!)  So, we thought that she would be super excited when almost 4 years later we told her she was going to be a grandmother (its her first grandchild).

She smiled and said "congratulations" very flat and not as excited as we thought she'd be.  Very strange.  We were disappointed, but just ignored it.

firefightersgal

My family was thrilled.  I drove over to MIL's office to tell her.  Her reaction was, "Oh, I wasn't expecting this for another six months."  (We'd "only" been married for 6 months, but had been together for 5 1/2 years). 

belle204

Everyone but my middle sister was excited and great about it. She was awful. I told her if she couldn't be more positive and was going to continue her line of thought I wanted nothing to do with her. We didn't talk for months... and now she and my dd are crazy about each other.