Facebook announcement 12w3d

Re: Facebook announcement 12w3d

• suchaglencoco member

  January 2016

  Congrats on your pregnancy! I completely understand your apprehension as we struggled for years, had losses and finally had our rainbow babies last month conceived through a frozen ivf cycle.
  You'll never feel safe in your pregnancy, at least not 100%. I always was in fear of jinxing this last pregnancy if we announced or if I visited this person like I did the pregnancy before or if I went to this event or that. This is common with those who struggled conceiving and actually, pretty common with those who haven't.
  
  I suggest doing it when you're ready. We made it Facebook official after 12 weeks and 2 major scares. It was a big step for us and it was hard, but we wanted to finally celebrate a pregnancy.
  
  I also suggest looking into the Pregnant After IF group on the Bump. The women are amazing and are super understanding of your transition from struggling ttc and being scared of your pregnancy as they are going through it all with you.
  
  https://forums.thebump.com/categories/pregnant-after-if

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• Stella9876 member

  January 2016

  Thank you!

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• cMichelle0423 member

  January 2016

  I think it depends when you're comfortable with sharing the news. We shared our news at different times in each of my pregnancies. With our first, we told everyone right away. However with our second, I had an episode of terrible cramping and bleeding, so we waited until around 14 weeks or so. This time with out third, we wanted to wait just because it was fun having the secret to ourselves. So we waited until around 18 weeks to tell anyone. Either way, it's what you and your SO decide! Congrats!

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• sarahufl member

  January 2016

  I'm 30 weeks and so far, not a peep on social media. And I don't intend to post anything till after the baby gets here. I had an ectopic in March and all the pregnancy announcements on FB for the months following really sucked, so I decided to just not post anything. I have to admit, I kind of enjoy the whole world not knowing
  
  I went to Florida to tell my parents at about 17 weeks and we told H's family right after that. I told my parents they could tell their friends/extended family around 20 weeks. I didn't really tell anyone else till I was showing.
  
  I just kind of feel like nobody keeps anything private anymore, so I kind of prefer to just be pregnant and not be documenting it on FB.

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• MommyOfBabyG member

  January 2016

  We posted right away. We figured if we lost the baby we wanted people to support us then too. So far so good though after the first trimester the chances go waaaay down especially with a heart beat

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• goldie987 member

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  We told immediate family early on, told extended family at 14 weeks and gave the go ahead for them to tell whoever they wanted. I'm 18 weeks now and won't post anything at least until the anatomy scan (less than 2 weeks, woo!) or maybe 24 weeks (greater than 50% chance of fetal viability if delivered) if we post anything at all. The people I care about and who would be there for us if something bad happened all know, no need to tell the whole world and then be in the small percent who have something bad happen.

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