Would appreciate mumsnetters thoughts as rather upset. After an early scan my DH and I decided to announce to friends and wider family that I was expecting. I contacted one set of grandparents and spoke to GF. Informed him and pleased that he was pleased. Asked him to tell GM who he told me was in the bath. Few days later another family member warns me that it is going round that I didn't bother to tell them. GM will not acknowledge child as they haven't been told. They are in their 90s so I will give them some leeway of my GF forgot to tell GM (although he managed to tell other family members before I got to them!) but I get the impression that she wanted a personal call. She believes herself to be a matriarch and can be very nasty and gossipy. My aunt has also gotten in on the act and called me a stirrer when I called my GM to tell her and also express surprise that GF hadn't told her. She was very annoyed that she was the last to know and I saw red and said calmly that if she didn't want to be involved that was her prerogative but I had not left them out. I'm not sure if I've done the right thing although recieved support from most of my family who contacted me as soon as they heard the Chinese whispers. Has anyone else had this? Part of me just wants to say lets not tell her when they baby is born. She has never shown interest in any other ggc. Sorry for the vent.
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Justmuddlingalong ·
02/12/2015 15:46
Congratulations. Don't rise to the bait. Don't stress over her petty behaviour. Enjoy your pregnancy and when your DC is born, only tell those who have had the civility to react in a normal way to your happy news. 
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