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telling friends and family?
when did you start telling people you were pg?
did you do anything special to announce it to your relatives?
Re: telling friends and family?
with isabel we told immediately family-parents,bro and sis the day we found out since we were seeing them anyway, and we were in such shock that they would of known something was up anyway. Nothing special just told them.
With Joaquin we told them like 2 weeks after we found out, we had Isabel wear a "I'm the big sister shirt" It took DH's family about 45min before they realized what her shirt said. It took my mom 2 secs.
Told parents at about 6 weeks (2 weeks after we found out). Took my parents to dinner and told them about my new job first and then the baby. They were more excited about the baby. Told MIL next, just came by her house for a visit and told her. Told the rest of extended family at about 12 weeks (which was Thanksgiving and my grandma's b-day so that worked out to tell people in person). At grandma's b-day gave her a a b-day card and inside was the pic of the ultrasound. At Thanksgiving made an announcement to family. It worked out to be able to tell people in person.
Dh had trouble keeping his mouth shut and so many friends knew around 9-10 weeks and best friends even earlier. I told work at 13 weeks.
with both babies, I told work when people caught me throwing up the bathroom 4 days in a row
We told our parents as we got our beta results (so, immediately).
We plan to tell extended family tomorrow (12 weeks) at FIL's 60th birthday party.
Work has known for a few weeks because they see me throwing up/gagging. Nice.
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
We waited until the first doc visit, so about 11 weeks. We did not tell anyone besties, family, work, internet etc. There was really no reason except we wanted to keep it to ourselves for awhile until we heard and saw from the doc that everything was okay.
We announced it to both sets of parents together. Each set of parents thought they were coming over to take me out to a belated birthday dinner, instead we brought out a cake that was decorated in baby shower style and read "Congratulations Grandparents."
They loved that we told them together and I was glad we did that too. There was tears, excitement, etc....it was cool. I also liked sharing it with just dh for a bit. Everything is so very public now adays... it was just nice. It is a very exciting time for you...let us know what you choose to do
We told family the day we got our BFP. I knew that as long as it had taken us to conceive a miscarriage would be devastating and I would need their support.
I told work at about 6 weeks (two weeks after I found out) because I couldn't stop vomiting all.day.long (still can't!!) and they needed to know.
Everyone else we told at 10 weeks after we'd had our second ultrasound and saw the heartbeat.
Hmm. By my post I did not mean to imply that someone who conceived quickly and miscarried would be any less devastating. My post kinda came across that way. Hope I didn't offend anyone.
i told my mom the day we found out as i saw her an hour later and i had a big grin on my face so she knew something was up LOL
but i think i will just wait till after my dr appt next week and tell everyone else...i just need that ease of mind to know everything is fine and dandy first
Found out the morning of DH's mom's birthday dinner. ?Since we decided that we were going to tell my parents first, we didn't say anything to them then.
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Told my parents when we went up to visit at about 9-10 weeks, the day after a U/S. ?Gave them the photo and said, "You are now officially old, congratulations grandma and grandpa." ?My dad chuckled and went back to his computer to finish scheduling youth soccer. ?My mom cried. ?Started telling my friends and family then.
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Told DH's parents three days later at dinner. ?Said we were going to show them photos from the latest NZ trip. ?Showed the U/S photo as well. ?Started telling DH's friends and family then.
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Told work at 6 weeks after I broke down in tears just before a big presentation and had to make my boss finish it up. ?Never had morning sickness, but I was pretty dang emotional.