To be embarrassed to tell my parents I’m pregnant?

[Lolois]

It’s so stupid and I know that- I’m 32, married and the baby is planned for and I’m over the moon about me being pregnant but I’m worried about telling my parents. I know they know I have sex, but telling them feels so uncomfortable because it’s like yep we’ve had sex and now there’s proof of that in my stomach. I know that that’s not what they’ll focus on but ah I feel so awkward about telling them. Did anyone else feel like this?

I had a very silly friend at work who said to me after I told her I was pregnant in a playground sing song voice "I know what you've been doing!"
Honestly the fact it proved I'd had sex didn't occur to me, I thought it was really funny.

Hope you didn't conceive doggy style and you present them with a dgp (dear grand puppy!!)

If it's in your stomach then something may have gone wrong?!

I kind of know what you mean. I felt awkward telling my dad I was pregnant especially as he responded "well done", which meant he had essentially congratulated me for having unprotected sex. Weird!

I felt like this! I was dreading telling them. I finally did and they were delighted. No embarrassment at all

I'm with you on this. Mine were ecstatic and in fact my Dad had hinted that he wanted to be a grandpa but telling them felt strange. And I'm 31

I’m dreading telling my parents that I’m pregnant with baby no3.
They were shocked when we told them about DC2, as DC1 was only 8 months old at the time.
I’ve mentioned a few times about wanting another child and every time my mum shuts it down with “no. Two is enough”.
I can see the looks of disapproval already

I felt the same at 31 having to tell my parents, funnily my parent’s reaction wasn’t “OMG this means you’ve been having sex” ! It took me an hour to psych myself up to say it, in the end I couldn’t say the words and my husband wanted me to tell them so I found a thing on google that said “keep calm, you are going to be grandparents” and sent it to my mum’s phone (it sounds ridiculous I know) my mum looked at it and didn’t get it for about 10 minutes and asked who is going to be a grandparent? My dad was watching the football and not listening. It was so awkwardly funny, in the end I had to say “I’m pregnant!!!”

Whenever someone tells me that they are having a baby, the last thing I think of is the mechanics.

I think how wonderful; my Mum and Dad were really happy when my siblings told them that they were going to be Grandparents and no-one thought of anything else

I felt the same (aged 26 and married), I phoned my parents and told them we had some news and that we were expecting a baby. My mum was delighted and very squealy. My dad said "very good, yes, well done" because I don't think he really knew what to say. He was a bit uncomfortable about it all during my pregnancy, as he views this sort of thing as "women's things" but as soon as DS1 arrived (nearly 8 years ago) he was besotted with him. He was much less awkward about DS2 though, I even told them face to face!

It'll be fine, they'll be over the moon! Congratulations

When I told my boss I was pregnant, she started singing "we all know what you've been doing"

F**k!!! Mortifying!!
I thought it was awkward enough when my boss said "well done"!

I won't be getting pregnant again for fear of hearing those words...

I felt like that too! 37 when I fell pregnant. My dad showed up (from another country, flew in and all) when I went into labor. Even more embarrassing as there was no denying at all w him in labor room that I’d had sex. Totally irrational thought of course and in hindsight, the most brilliant thing my dad ever did. 1st one there to hold the baby after me and DH, strongest bond ever between my kid and him. He died when she was 5. But yup, embarrassed that he knew I’d had sex... silly!

i felt exactly like this. infact I ended up getting my sister to tell them!!!! she also rang our grandparents. i was married, in my 30s and MORTIFIED

I was exactly the same. My parents live on other side of country. We're not that close and I just couldn't tell them. I ended up emailing them about 4.5 months in!!

it would be more weird if you weren’t having sec at your age/married etc.

I’m late answering this but yes, I found it difficult telling my parents, particularly my mum.
However it wasn’t so much embarrassment as dread. My relationship with my parents is distant and my mother never had children (I was adopted). I think the concept of pregnancy and children always brought up difficult feelings in her as a result. And it made everything rather awkward.
She also never particularly instilled a ‘body positive’ attitude in my as a child - in fact she was always rather negative. And I think I came to dread how uncomfortable she made me feel.