Have you told anyone else you're TTC?

[rosti]

Other than your partner, of course

I really want to tell my mum but I'm afraid she'll get overly excited and constantly be expecting a pregnancy announcement. It's probably going to be hard for me to conceive and she knows this but I still think she'd get too keen. She would also probably tell my dad, who is ridiculously eager to be a granddad and I'm the only one of his children who is at the TTC stage.

I just really want to discuss the journey with a woman who gets it, you know? I'll probably just post here a tonne

I’ve always been very open about it to family and close friends, some close work colleagues too. But I think its very personal -many people are very private about it. I’ve also been open about our challenges -I want people to know so they don’t keep expecting a pregnancy announcement and being insensitive. I also think it’s important for people to be aware it’s not always easy-particularly people that get pregnant straight away! I think I’m quite an open book generally tho!

If you decide not to tell people -I’m sure you will get lots of support here-good luck!

I haven’t told anyone. I think everyone expected that I’d be pregnant by now but the truth is we only started trying a few months ago. No one knows that. I’d like to tell my family or friends, and I’m generally very close to them. But there’s something about this that’s intensely private for me.

I got a BFP a day or two ago and probably won’t tell anyone unless I make it to tweve weeks. If it’s unsuccessful, I don’t want to have to tell people. If we make it to twelve weeks, I’d like to enjoy this being ours for a while. Before all the advice and opinions roll in!

I've been really open about it at work, partly because there are aspects of my job I can't do even in the TWW so rather than try to avoid certain things and people going "ooooh are you pregnant??" I can just openly say I'd rather not just incase. We also have fertility issues, and I've been open about this because I think it's stops people speculating in my job if I refuse certain tasks. As for family I've told my close family, and a few of my close friends but I'm less open about it outside of work. I think it's a personal choice, it's not something we have to hide if we don't want to :)

Ive not discussed it at all, other than with hubby and I’ve been very clear I want to wait until 12 weeks and the first scan if we did get pregnant before we told anyone. Mainly because I’ve had so much pressure on me from family to have a baby, but also because I’m worried about MC or something going wrong I’d rather make sure I was in the clear before I said anything.

It’s so very hard though, I really want to talk about it as well!

I didn't tell anyone, either did DH. It's completely personal but for me I would have felt anyone I told was waiting/wondering!

I told a few friends when we were trying for DC1 and I regretted it as they kept on bringing it up and it actually took us a while for me to get a BFP.

With DC2 we didn’t tell anyone but when we announced I was pregnant (after my 12 week scan) I don’t think anyone was hugely surprised.

I’ve told my closest friends as I feel if it takes ages or if something went wrong I would want them to know and be there for me x

I did, and honestly I regretted doing so.... the tips I constantly got were irritating to say the least. A friend was the worst, every time I phoned her she asked if I was pregnant..... no, no, just into month 13 and still not pregnant!! 😡
Month 14 was the winner however, so I can't complain.
I'll be keeping it to myself in future though xx