June 2011 Moms
advice pls/ feeling awkward/ when to announce
Hi all, so why do I feel awkward about announcing our pregnancy? Anyone else feeling this way? I just feel like I have been keeping a secret. I remember my good friend telling me she was 4 months and I was like wtf!? and then another good friend telling me she just took the test and that just seemed more normal.
Anyway~ we just had our first apt today and our baby was partying away on the screen! Amazing. Do I tell work now or after New Years? Would that be weird to be like, oh by the way I'm four months and showing, compared to three months and just a little pudgier than usual? I guess my reason to wait is we are going to Mexico and ... I am being illogical. WWYD?
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Re: advice pls/ feeling awkward/ when to announce
Everyone is different and there's no right answer
With DS, we told BIL and SIL and our friends the day we got a BFP (about 3w 4d) and the rest of the family at Christmas (about 5w). We figured that if something were to happen, we'd want all the support we could get
This time we're waiting. BIL and SIL are pregnant with their first, so we wanted to give them enough time to enjoy being in the spotlight and tell everyone when they were ready. (They wanted to wait because a friend went through an early m/c and SIL didn't want to deal with the "untelling".) We'll be home for Christmas when I'm about 13w along and we'll be announcing then
ah, scrolling to page 2 I see lots of these posts! I've been out of bump land for a bit. I've already told family and close friends~ work just feels awkward, and looks like I'm not the only one feeling this way.
Will announce facebook after 18-22 week scan. Simple "its a boy, its a girl"
Announcing is a bit awkward, it's like asking people to congratulate you (I think). BUT once you start telling people it's so nice to have that extra love, excitement and joy it's not weird anymore.
Tell whenever feels right for you, true friends won't care when you tell, they will understand!
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I get nervous every time I tell a new person. My family found out at around 7 weeks because my grandfather passed away and I wanted to spread some good news through the family. But as for friends and coworkers I've been slow to spread the news.
Every time I go to tell someone my heart starts racing and I get really nervous. I don't have my first u/s until tomorrow so the worry wort in me is probably making me anxious about telling people.
I'm not telling work until just before the new year. My bosses have 10 kids between the two of them so I am sure they will be more than supportive!
I agree that it's different for everyone. We've told immediate family and my BFF only, and that's because she randomly asked me on the day of my missed period if we started trying yet... I couldn't hold it in!
Because I start my second trimester just before Christmas I'm telling extended family then, as well as friends. Since I want to tell family before work I'll be waiting until the NY to tell work, due to bosses vacation schedules/holidays.
I'm only 10W now though so I'll be 15 weeks when I tell work... It's a little later than I would like, but because of the holidays it just works that way. I'm debating telling the two people I'm closest to at work, but I'm just afraid of it getting out and my bosses finding out from someone other than me, which I'd rather not happen.
I don't plan on telling Facebook at all either and having been telling friends and family not to post anything about it. I just feel weird having every acquaintance know about my pregnancy, seems a bit much for me...