When did you announce?

lovealwaysfindsaway8202011 · August 2015

I know this probably splitting hairs but I'm just curious...how many weeks were you when you announced your pregnancy like to Facebook etc. our parents, siblings and a few close friends already know, we told them after my 7 week ultrasound. I'm thinking after my appointment on the 11th, we might. I'll only be 11 weeks though. Not sure if I wanna wait till I'm totally out of the first trimester or what.

So share your stories

Penguin129 · August 2015

So, we are probably not the norm, but we announced to family the day we found out. I bought H a shirt that had a newsboy on it holding a paper with the headline "Extra! I'm going to be a father" (pic below). He wore it to the Shear Fear event his brother has every Halloween and we just let everyone read it on their own. It was dusk when we showed up so not everyone saw it right away. We announced on Facebook the day after we told our immediate families. Depending on when we find out this time I might want to keep it a secret and do an extra special reveal. Like Thanksgiving or Christmas or my Birthday.

Penguin129 · August 2015

I also want to do a webcam chat with my parents this time before we tell anyone else. We're still a month out from NTNP.

ImperiumWife · August 2015

I was going to wait. J doesn't want to wait too long to tell our immediate families, but I would much rather wait until after the first trimester. I don't want to jinx anything, so right now, only you here and a couple of other people I know from online know yet. I promised my FSIL that I'd tell her first, since she knew we were trying, and no one else did. I might feel comfortable after the ultrasound at 8 weeks. But public knowledge won't happen until after the first trimester. The only problem is our parents SUCK at keeping secrets. I have a great idea to reveal it, but I don't know if I want to wait that long.

jjbmstinco · August 2015

We waited bc of our history

Pg in Oct.

Told parents after NYE

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lovealwaysfindsaway8202011 · August 2015

I'm thinking about my birthday which is the 15th of September, if all goes well on the 11th. I'll be 11 and a half weeks. Guess the doctors appointment will tell.

Am12712 · August 2015

We told parents and siblings as soon as the stick was dry. We told friends and all that as we saw them after the first ultrasound at about 8wks. FB was when we found out she was a girl at our anatomy scan.

Personally after our MC my mindset changed. Who I told and when I told wasn't going to change how my pregnancy turned out. I felt that I would rather have the support should things not work out again.

shellyamf · August 2015

With Lily we told family the day we found out we were pregnant. I announced on FB at about 13 weeks. This time around we waited to tell family until I got the positive blood test result from the dr but mainly because we were traveling to see family that weekend. If we hadn't been traveling I probably would have called them sooner. We told friends as we saw them. I announced on Facebook around then end of my first trimester. I can't remember if it was 12 or 13 weeks. The first time we asked our family to keep it a secret. This time we didn't. Because we knew they wouldn't and like Am said, we didn't mind people knowing earlier since it wouldn't change anything.

TaraW1979 · August 2015

I told my mom and dad the day after I had the positive test. We told his parents 2 weeks later. We annouced to extended family and friends around Christmas time with a picture on our Christmas card of three stockings, Tara, Dennis, and Baby. That was when I was at about 14 weeks. My close friends were told when I saw them.

ImperiumWife · August 2015

You guys have kinda changed my mind, yet all of the people I would want to tell first are terrible secret keepers. Did you have anyone tell someone you didn't want to know? We even asked them to keep our house building a secret till we got to see people and they didn't.

jjbmstinco · August 2015

The only reason we waited so long the second time was we saw how devastated people were when we had a MC. We personally didn't want to put people through that again if we didn't have too. If something had happened, we would of still told people but it would of been on our time. I did have people spread it through school like wildfire.

ImperiumWife · August 2015

That's what I'm worried about. I don't think my mil would know what to do if something went wrong.

one2andnow3 · August 2015

After the mc I decided not to announce on fb. It was kinda funny when people would start to see my bump and say I didn't know you were expecting. My fb is tough because it has become more of a networking tool and I don't really like for people to think I am going to be taking time off because I'm pregnant.

ImperiumWife · September 2015

So, opening this one back up. I had this great idea to tell our parents, since my mil's birthday is Tuesday. I was going to make sure that my beta numbers came back high, and then tell them. But my doctor apparently doesn't do beta numbers. I just have to let go of the idea, I guess.

ImperiumWife · September 2015

So, opening this one back up. I had this great idea to tell our parents, since my mil's birthday is Tuesday. I was going to make sure that my beta numbers came back high, and then tell them. But my doctor apparently doesn't do beta numbers. I just have to let go of the idea, I guess.

jjbmstinco · September 2015

You could still do it. Most places that I am aware of won't do beta numbers unless you have had a MC or bleeding.

ImperiumWife · September 2015

I asked, and they didn't want to do it. I'm not sure I'm ready to tell them anyway, with the whole secret keeping issues, but it would have been nice. I really don't want to tell anyone until I have some sort of proof. Just relying on a home test doesn't seem like enough to me.

shellyamf · September 2015

We told everyone after our home test with Lily. But we waited until after a positive blood test with this one. Not sure why, but we felt better waiting for that.