sharing the news with family/friends

audrey10607 · August 2009

The first time hubby and I held off from telling anyone until I was 16 weeks along..and it was Christmas.(I stuck a big read bow on my belly and stood under the tree)

If I'm expecting again (I feel I very well might be, but am too scared to be disappointed, so I'm chickening out of testing)...I am wanting to make a big announcement again.

What did you do?

Did you wait until the first tri was over? Spill the beans right away?

Make a big announcement? Just tell people as it came up?

nferrante · August 2009

I'm still really early...but we've been kind of telling people as we go! I wanted to keep it a secret..but we decided we wanted our family/friend support!

KateAndMark · August 2009

We are waiting until 13 weeks. We are going to be meeting DH's parents in Mexico so I think I might get a cute shirt that says Baby in the Belly or something like that. We will probably tell my parents right before we go on the trip but they are 1,200 miles away so I'm not sure how we will do it.

kristinem17 · August 2009

We told our immediate family right away (parents and siblings) and then also 3 close friends. We made it clear that we were not going public with it until 2 trimester... here we are now almost at 14 weeks and we still have not gone public. We did well at the NT scan, but now we want to wait for our screening bloodwork to come back. So it will be nearly 17 weeks before we spill the beans.......

PeetiePie · August 2009

We told DHs mom, step dad, sister and his sister's DH the week after we saw the heartbeat. I was a little over 7 weeks. Then we told his dad at 8 weeks. I just told my mom this past Tuesday. These are all the family members that knew about the loss, with the exception of one aunt. My MIL really wants me to tell everyone else sooner, but I'm hesitant. I have a follow up tomorrow where they will check the heartbeat on the doppler. Maybe I'll change my mind.

Everyone else in the family will have to wait until I'm past 12 weeks. I'll tell my boss at 13 weeks (we already have a meeting scheduled, so I figure that will work out fine).

labbie1821 · August 2009

We told immediate family (MIL, my mom, my dad, and a few close friends) at around 9 weeks. We went for our first u/s and because it looked so good and my numbers were so high my Dr. said she would tell if it were her so we felt comfy enough to say something.

MIL & Mom~ I wrote them a poem and gave them an angel suncatcher that was pink and blue

My dad & step-mom~ We went to their house for the fireworks and I brought dessert ( I made cupcakes and did pink and blue frosting. Then I wrote on the icing in black "Baby D due 2010")

Good Luck deciding how you will tell!

bootcampbride · August 2009

I haven't told anyone because I am totally paranoid. My DH really wants to tell his mom and dad (who are quite elderly) as soon as possible. I made him promise to wait until we saw a heartbeat at the u/s at 9 wks. Fast forward to some bad blood work and I had an early u/s yesterday and saw the heartbeat (yay) and now he wants to tell. If we had it my way I'd wait until Canadian Thanksgiving when I'll be 14 weeks because I'm concerned about losing another one and having to tell everyone we had a third mc. When I do tell I'm thinking I'm going to tell my nephews (5 and 7) and they can announce it at dinner.

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