To ask how long you waited to officially announce your pregnancy?

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By official i mean where telling anyone not just close family.

I am in the early stages of third pregnancy. We told everyone when i was 8 weeks pregnant the first time and now have a beautiful 3 year old girl.

Second pregnancy only told my mum and hubby and found out at 3 month scan we had lost baby. Am pondering how long to hold off this time am currently 5 weeks

21 weeks today and not told work yet (apart from also pregnant colleague who was also spending lots of time puking in the loos a few weeks back!) planning on sitting down with other colleague and boss this week and blurting it out- new job micro-company, only been there 4 months :-/
Most other people know- I'm the size of a house, ex-h hasn't yet twigged either though.

First two DC at 6 weeks. Third DC couldn't be arsed with all the kerfuffle pregnancy and families seems to create so 'didn't get around' to telling anyone until I was 32 weeks! Don't ask how I got away with it but I did. I get huge during pregnancy as well, somehow managed to hide it under baggy clothes and crossed my arms a lot. It's possible everyone thought I'd suddenly gained a lot of weight too I guess, everyone seemed genuinely shocked.

Before 12 weeks it's need to know. With DS2, a group of friends were told together at 11 weeks. It was looking rather obvious, and they had a strong chance of guessing from symptoms and behaviour. I'd already seen a heartbeat at 6 weeks so statistics were in my favour.

By halfway through the second tri, I look fit to drop!

I am nearly 8 weeks- we told in laws at 6 and my parents and siblings a week later (on days where everyone could be together, nothing deliberate) I am
Going to tell my 3 best friends at the end of this week. These are people who would support us if the worst should happen. Everyone else after 12 weeks although I don't think we'll
Have a big announcement

After my 12 week scan I turned up at uni waving the picture about and showing everyone. Quick post on facebook. Job done

First pg, dp told everyone (absolutely everyone) and we lost it at 16 weeks.
Dd - 7 months which was actually when we found out
Dd2 and ds - after 20 week scan. Couple of people asked and we told them but there was no big 'reveal' at any point.
Once bitten and all that.

Told our parents at seventeen weeks, though various friends and colleagues had guessed before that (clues were in sudden teetotalism and leaving meetings to throw up) but no one was rude enough to ask. Didn't make any announcements at all, other than to my head of dept in relation to maternity leave.

About sixteen weeks after the amino.

I told at 19 weeks after second scan. Was scared to tell before then as a very close friend had a late miscarriage earlier that year and I was made redundant and had to reapply for my job at 10 weeks.

First of all - congratulations.

With DC1 I was determined to hold off until after the 12 week scan. But there was a mix up and my 12 week scan was done at 14 or 15 weeks. That, plus the fact we were having a huge family gathering around 12 -13 weeks meant we told 'early'. I did worry I had jinxed myself but everything was fine.

With DC2 I was taken into hospital regarding another matter at 10 weeks, the Doctor was my brother so there was no chance of keeping the secret, especially when the nurse had already done a pregnancy test as part of the routine tests and told him! I told everyone else after 12 weeks.

We told our parents after the 12 week scan and a few special friends who could keep the secret from about 16 weeks but we waited until we were clear of the 20 week scan before making it general knowledge. I think I was so worried about the risk of anomalies at the 20 week scan that I wouldn't have felt happy telling the world at large in case we discovered anything serious at that stage.

Congratulations!
12 weeks with ds1
16 weeks with ds2 (waiting till after family wedding so as not to divert any attention)
22 weeks with dd (didnt tell anyone but our mums until after we had told the boys and didn't want to do that too early)

DS1, DS2, DS3 after the dating scan. DS4 after the 20 week scan and DS5 close family at 31 weeks and everyone else after the birth.

With our first pregnancy, we told people really early, at about 5 weeks. I then mc at 9 weeks.

With ds1 and ds2 we waited until after the 12 week scan.

with the second we made it common knowledge about a week after we found out so about 4 or 5 weeks along. I lost my first and I can assure you it didn't make it any easier with people 'not knowing' I was pregnant to begin with so that's why we made the decision second time round just to get it out there.

I've only had the one, who was unplanned (but is now a thriving nearly 10 year old). So I discussed my suspicions (OMG think I might be pregnant) with a couple of close friends at about 7-8 weeks, did a test at about 9 weeks and told two good friends and the baby's father the next day. Told my parents at 11 weeks (I had been meaning to wait until 12 weeks or so, but knew I was going to be seeing them for a birthday meal and didn't think I could do the meal without telling them...) Then started telling people as I saw them/need to know basis from about 13 weeks onwards. By about 20 weeks it was pretty obvious anyway.

I had to admit it at about nine weeks, I was GINORMOUS. Many people were relived to know I was pregnant, not just rapidly fattening!

My youngest was disclosed at about 28/29 weeks all the others about 12/13 weeks.

It was usually based on my level of worry

Told PIL (my parents are dead) at 9 weeks- MIL took one look at me with MS and guessed.

Told friends at 16 weeks.

Am now 21 weeks and will tell work colleagues when I go back on 1st Sept - am teacher. The Head knows.

MS? Not an the acronym list. Please explain!

After the first scan all 3 times I think. Before that only DH and my mum knew.

I had recurrent mc and by the third one I was telling people as soon as I knew TBH. The nature of my work meant that managers etc needed to know as soon as, and in any case I found it was actually worse in the first and second mc when people didn't know what was wrong. I think it depends on who's around you - my work at that time was quite a tight-knit bunch.

Fourth pregnancy was the successful one (with IVF/PGD) and knew it was more likely to succeed and we kept it quiet till after the scan. Had to tell people pretty soon after as I was rapidly getting bigger...

I didn't tell any one apart from my immediate boss and the head of HR until after I'd had a clear amniocentesis result. I was borderline on the first test as to whether an amnio was recommended. I think I'd told my boss and HR before that but they were the only people who were told until the results were through. That was quite a few weeks in.

Actually I knew I was pregnant within days of conceiving in early November 1989 and it was at least 3 months before I told anyone apart from my boss and HR head.

MS morning sickness, or all day in my case for the brief couple of weeks I had it.