moms of preschool-ish age kiddos

BethS2006 · July 2011

When did you tell your (3-ish) year old you were having a baby. Our plan is to wait until 15-17 weeks, when its noticable... and when everyone else knows. lets face it, my kids are chatter boxes and the world will know if we tell them. And they have NO concept of time.... waiting until February? huh?

Mama_v2.0 · July 2011

My kids always went to all appointments with me....so they knew as soon as we had a solid confirmation. (U/S pictures in hand.)

I agree children are not patient at waiting, but it is all good.

blueLu25 · July 2011

We didnt really talk about it til I was showing, and still ds didnt really even start to even care or think about it til I was pretty big, and we started getting things ready for the baby. Probably started talking about it around the same time you are thinking of doing it. It just seemed less confusing when he could see a physical difference in me.

cmcmillan · July 2011

With W M was 2 1/2 when we found out. We talked about it openly, but didn't really talk to him about it until after the 1st ultrasound (7 weeks).

This time we have told him pretty much since day one. He doens't talk about it, but when we do he wants to. He likes thinking of names and asks if baby will go to the same hospital/doctor.

MrsAmyB · July 2011

We didn't plan to tell Meg until after we told our family (12 weeks) but we actually held off a little longer than that and asked family to not mention it to her as our situation was a little bit different. But I would say 12 weeks for an almost 3 year old.

IkesHawaiian06 · July 2011

We told Emma once we had our ultrasound about 6 weeks. She's done really well understanding that the baby is growing still. I'm surprised at how patient she's been. She talks about him and talks to him almost every day. If you feel more comfortable with it, I'd wait until everyone else knows.

tfarabians · July 2011

we told Cruz right away, mostly because I was so icky and barfy that he knew something was up. He was exactly the same ages as the twins. Just a few weeks off from being 3. Being a boy though he just took that info and filed it away somewhere and went on about playing with his trucks. I suspect Audrey might be a bit more interested in the whole thing?

scarletii · July 2011

I was noticeable by like 10 weeks! LOL And hannah came to the first u/s at 8wks. Of course she was a lot younger and not sure she really understood until she came to the hospital and saw me holding a baby!

preston18 · July 2011

Tell them their birthday gift is a new brother or sister that won't be ready until February?

Seattle_JiLLn · July 2011

I dont' remember when I told Ben. I waited a while though. 3 other moms in our play group were also pregnant and were farther along than I was. So we talked about them having babies in their tummies a lot and one day I just sort of said "you know what? mommy has one too! you're going to be a big brother" and he seemed completely unphased.

WatchPot · July 2011

We told hime when we had a confirmed ultra sound. He really didn't care

My SIL sent a book about my baby week by week and has kid activities and he really likes that. It starts at 5 weeks so we have gotten a lot of use out of it.

KNemo · July 2011

DUDE. How did I miss your announcement. CONGRATULATIONS!! Now I am running off to change my settings from "last reply" to "original post date" because I am tired of missing things!

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