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How to tell your other Children you're expecting?

vomitrosavomitrosa member
in November 2015 Moms

My S/O and I have decided to wait to tell my 6 year old DD that she is going to be a big sister until I'm about 10 weeks along. She has been talking about being a big sister for the last year so I know she is going to be thrilled, we just aren't sure how to tell her yet...I have seen a handful of fun reveal ideas and I am thinking it would be fun and get her involved.

So how did the rest of you mothers expecting your 2nd or 3rd tell your children you're having a baby? How did they react?


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  • vomitrosavomitrosa member
    That's really adorable! I love it.
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  • jasbaby2jasbaby2 member
    We have a five and half year old and we are waiting for quite awhile to tell him. We made the mistake of telling him after we saw the heart beat in November and ended up miscarrying in December. It was very confusing and sad for him so we want to avoid repeating that
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  • jolanie1jolanie1 member
    Told them with a letter. Had my 7yr old son read it tovhis 2yr old brother. They were more interested in the lollipops that came with the letter though...boys!!!
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  • peachmuffinspeachmuffins member
    I told my 3 year old that mommy has a baby in his tummy and he was excited about it. I was actually watching a natural birth video on youtube and he came over and was like so interested in watching the baby come out and kept telling me it was still stuck... and then when the baby came all the way out he laughed like a maniac and said "it's born!" and then went and played with legos. It was weird but cute.  


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  • mosoria8mosoria8 member
    I have a 5 yr old girl and 3 yr old boy i gave them each a gift bag filled with baby stuff (hats and bibs) and had them open it at the same time when they opened the gifts and laughed i asked them who uses the items they had in the bags and they said babies and i told them i have a baby in my belly. My daughter was more excited then my son i dont think its processed for him yet lol
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  • amh0411712amh0411712 member
    I think when we know things are safe well tell them, but not until viability or so. I don't want to deal with a hundred questions every single day.
    I saw a Daniel Tiger Big Brother book and will probably pick it up for my 2.5 year old boys. Other than that I plan I just saying "mommy's having a baby". No need to go pinteresty on this.
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  • Pontot31Pontot31 member
    We are waiting to tell my 3 year old because I don't want constant questions for 8 months.
    However I feel like she's picking up on things. She's never been a doll person. She has one that was buried in the toy box. This week she dug it out and has been playing with it and yesterday she put it under her shirt saying there was a baby in there.

    I think we are telling our families on Easter so I'm sure she will hear about it then. I'm going to try and down play it a while though.
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