Ideas on telling DD about baby

74dragonfly

After dealing with 2+ years of secondary IF, 2 losses, unsuccessful fertility treatments, etc we are expecting a baby! DD is 4 and has been wishing to be a big sister.  We plan to tell her after 1st tri when hoepfully we will know all is well.  

Any ideas on how to tell her?  I dont use pinterest.  I figured since many of you have two kids or more you might have a good idea.  

 

Thanks for any ideas 

memali26

Congratulations! 

Maybe you could get her a "big sister" gift - a book about being a big sister, a big sister t-shirt, something along those lines? Wrap it up and take pictures of her reaction when she opens it and figures out what it is!

aiche Umm Ayoub

I just told my 3 1/2 year old she was going to be a big sister again ( she has a 2 1/2 year old brother ) she keeps asking when is the baby coming , I want a sister I told her mommy doesn't get to choose if baby's a boy or girl and that God chooses then when baby is big enough doctors can sometimes tell if it's a girl or boy . she's going through her helping phase she will get things for me like diapers and wipes

VTbride05

Congrats!

A friend made her daughter a shirt that said Only Child which she crossed out and wrote BIG SISTER.... you could give her the shirt and cross it out together. 

Mrs.RockyM

don't laugh, but as excited as I was to have a baby, I was even more excited to tell DD.  Seriously I was beyond excited.  We waited till about 18 weeks when we found out the sex, but DD was just 3 when we told her, and we thought it would confuse her if we said we didn't know if she was having a baby brother or baby sister.

We started by reading the Berenstain Bears New Baby book

https://www.amazon.com/The-Berenstain-Bears-New-Baby/dp/0394829085/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368555943&sr=8-1&keywords=berenstain+bears+new+baby

and there's one part where they talk about how mamma's belly was getting bigger and it was harder for brother bear to sit in her lap, and how mamma bear was tired a lot and had difficulty bending, and DH made comments like wow, mommy's belly is getting bigger and it's harder to sit in her lap too, and I'd say yeah, and it's harder for me to bend too.  We were kind of hoping she'd come to the conclusion on her own.  And then at the end we told her that we had some really exciting news and that she was going to be a big sister and right around halloween she'd have a little baby sister.  We kind of made it all about her and how she's going to be the big sister and she'll be the one to teach her sister so many things.  And then we showed her the ultrasound and talked about how the baby needs time to grow so it's going to be a while and stuff like that. 

We also got her this book and read it to her, which talks about being a big sister but at a pre-k level.  It talks about babies crying for no reason and how they can't eat pizza and how mommy and daddy still love you.  

https://www.amazon.com/Sister-Cole-Joanna-Revised-Hardcover/dp/B00BPHI33S/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368556044&sr=1-8&keywords=im+a+big+sister+joanna+cole 

After that we called her grandparents and aunts and uncles and had her tell them our big news as if they were hearing it the first time. 

Mrs.RockyM

AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!   

74dragonfly

Mrs.RockyM:

AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!nbsp; :nbsp;

Thanks! Your story made me cry.

Mrs.RockyM

KKDRAGONFLY:

Mrs.RockyM:

AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!nbsp; :nbsp;

Thanks! Your story made me cry.

Seriously, I think I was most excited about DD having a little sister than anything else.  I cried every time I thought about it, and even now looking at the pictures of when we told her.