We've only told a select few, and my job since I work in retail, and there's plenty of heavy lifting involved. Now, they don't want me to do barely anything. I really just want to start showing and surprise everyone else. I found a custom shirt that says "This is what I'm thankful for" (on the belly) I figured I can share with the rest of my family around thanksgiving. My birthday is a few weeks before then, Idk what I'm going to do. But it's 230 in the morning and my stomach just growled really loud, thank goodness I decided to save this salad.
We're keeping it a secret until Christmas. We have lost 3 babies in 4 years, 2 missed miscarriages one in 2011 and one in May of this year and a stillborn daughter last Feb so we need this time to focus on a healthy pregnancy without any negativity. Only a few people know. My mum, my youngest sister, my aunty, my boss and of course my hubby lol. We have decided to wait until we find out the gender. Most people won't be happy but too bad for them lol
I too am waiting to tell ppl until 12 w after my ultrasound! We told our parents and siblings but that's it! It's so hard to keep secret but sofar I'm doing it!
It's so hard!! My appt is 10/7. Like others, we'll prob tell our parents and siblings. Two of my girlfriends know. We have a Halloween party on 10/24 and are supposed to be going away to Jamaica on 10/31 for a family wedding?! I'm sure I'll have to tell then.....I can hide not drinking for a week!!
We went to dinner with our close friends last night and I was bursting to tell them! I'm only at 6w1d though and we haven't heard the heartbeat or seen anything yet, so it's definitely too early. Our only appointment so far was to confirm pregnancy. I want to tell people at 12 weeks (Nov 4th) but my husband wants to wait until Thanksgiving. I'm starting to think I can wait because I'd rather tell our families in person, and that's when we'll see them. I might tell my one close friend when I see her on Oct 17th though. She has a 5 month old and I'd love to talk to her about everything.
Me: 29, DH: 31 Married: October 2014 Began TTC: April 2015 BFP #1: 9/18/15. EDD 5/18/16. MC 10/26/15. (9w) BFP #2: 2/27/16. EDD 11/7/16. MC/D&E 4/20/16 (11w) BFP #3: 9/22/16. EDD 5/29/17. DS born 4/24/17 BFP #4: 5/20/18. EDD 1/23/19.
We are keeping it a secret even from family for now. My mother means well, but she is completely incapable of keeping even the smallest secret, so I know she couldn't keep this one. (She accidentally let my sister's pregnancy slip at a family function weeks before my sis was planning to tell anyone.) I want to tell my ILs before my parents because I trust them to keep the secret, but I don't want to tell them much sooner than my parents because my mom will have her feelings hurt that they were "in" on the secret well before her. Both our our families live out of state, so we are still trying to figure out when to tell them because we want to in person.
I will probably tell my best friend this week, and I am debating telling my sister when I am in town for her baby shower in 2 weeks. DH's grandmother and I are very close, and she will be in town in a few weeks. Depending on how DH feels about it, we may tell her then, too, as long as she promises not to tell his parents until we can in person.
I also have a dilemma with a friend's bachelorette party coming up in a about 3 weeks. The plan was to go out of town for a long weekend, and I had already committed to go months ago, so I'm still going to need to pay my share of the room. A weekend of being the only sober on that kind of trip does not sound fun, and it will definitely raise red flags if I'm not drinking, so I am not going to go. If I back out now, I will either need to tell her the real reason why or risk hurting her feelings. DH is going to her fiance's bachelor party that same weekend, so I can't even say that we are going to be out of town. The problem is, she is a good friend but she isn't one of my "best" friends, and I feel guilty letting her in on the secret before my family and closer friends. DH and I are having dinner with them tonight, so we will probably just tell them then...
We are going to try and hold off until Christmas to say anything to anyone. We are going to my in laws for Christmas and planning on surprising them with the news then. at that time we should also know if we are having a boy or a girl, and we should have a better idea of the due date as well. Then we can let everyone else in on the secret.
It's our first baby and we are very excited, but we'd like to keep it a secret because of the obvious reasons. My mom is a bit of a chatter box and would tell everyone. A miscarriage would be devastating, on top with so many people knowing would be horrible. As my family lives in Germany we are going to visit them over Christmas and surprise them with a little baby bump. They'll be over the moon! I can't wait to see their faces
I told my sister in law and my best friend, my husband seems to be letting it slip to coworkers! I want to keep it a secret until I'm 12 weeks because I am beyond scared of something going wrong. I feel like all I see on these pregnancy apps is people talking about MC. IT'S TERRIFYING. In fact, I'm finding it hard to be excited or stay positive because of everything I'm reading.
We've told immediate family and very close friends. We will tell everyone else that we are close with around 8-12 weeks and make our FB announcement for other friends around Thanksgiving. I'm 5 weeks today.
We are waiting. I'm not sure how long yet, ideally, I'd like to wait until at least Thanksgiving. We had a missed miscarriage in May and I am terrified of it repeating.
Our doctor doesn't do ultrasounds until 10 weeks now (policy change, I hate it), which will be 11/2. I want that to be behind us and for things to still be good a few weeks later before telling anyone.
Re: Anyone keeping it a secret?
Married: October 2014
Began TTC: April 2015
BFP #1: 9/18/15. EDD 5/18/16. MC 10/26/15. (9w)
BFP #2: 2/27/16. EDD 11/7/16. MC/D&E 4/20/16 (11w)
BFP #3: 9/22/16. EDD 5/29/17. DS born 4/24/17
BFP #4: 5/20/18. EDD 1/23/19.
BFP #1: Sept 21st 2015
MC: Oct 13th 2015
BFP #2: May 7th 2016
EDD: Jan. 10th 2017
We are waiting. I'm not sure how long yet, ideally, I'd like to wait until at least Thanksgiving. We had a missed miscarriage in May and I am terrified of it repeating.
Our doctor doesn't do ultrasounds until 10 weeks now (policy change, I hate it), which will be 11/2. I want that to be behind us and for things to still be good a few weeks later before telling anyone.
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