How did you break the news to family and friends?

[snotdroolanddirtybums]

hi, im i5 weeks pregnant and still havent told anybody! its actually getting harder to bring it up the longer i leave it. its funny really cause this will be my fourth and im 25 years old but still cant quite pluck up the curage to tell my parents! somebody tell me to grow up!

*15 weeks not i5 weeks lol

Can't really help you as I also found it very difficult to tell people - I was 42 and had always been adamant that I would never have a child ............... I had recently moved and did live a long way away from family and friends at the time so I think I just casually mentioned it when talking on the phone ............. I agree that it is not always a particularly easy conversation.

I guess you could just say nothing and let people work it out for themselves when your bump begins to show, I mean there is no 'Law' that says you have to tell people is there - I hate all those announcements about five minutes after people have had unprotected sex .

thanks ragwort, suppose i could turn it around when people start to notice and make them think that they discovered it and i hadn't a clue! its just the initial awkwardness that i hate and the 'how are you gonna cope' comments. ill just have to remind them that they said that about all 3 of my lo's and i havent signed myself in just yet!

I'm going to be 13 weeks when I tell my family, I've got my scan on 11th feb and will be doing the rounds that afternoon. I'm 25 and shit scared of telling my parents even tho I live with my DP and his daughter and they've dripped enough hints they'd like grand children!!

My dad guessed, which saved us a lot of bother! DS is MIL's first grandchild, so we sat her down and said (totally deadpan) that she was going to have to make a very difficult decision (pause for effect). "Do you want to be called Granny or Grandma?" You should have seen her face!

SMummyS- that was my plan but i still havent got my appointment for my 12 week scan so im thinking its gonna be another couple of week before my appointment. im glad im not the only one that finds it hard to tell people

FetchezLaVache- thats hallarious! i could only picture dps parents faces if he said that lol im already starting to show, im wearing maternity clothes now and a bit annoyed that my mum hasnt noticed! she must think i just had too much chocolate and turkey over xmas

We wrapped up a teeny baby gro at Christmas with a note that said 'Dear Granny, looking forward to meeting you next year, love Baby [our surnames]'

First she couldn't find her glasses to read the note, then with tears in her eyes the poor woman (who is dying for a grandchild but used to years of practical jokes from her four sons) kept asking if it was a joke!

I wouldn't recommend the jokey route unless you were sure it was going to be received as very good news!

I had thought about putting a copy of the scan pic in cards, then everyone gets a card and a picture :)

I'm more nervous about telling my brother, I see how he is with my DSD and it's so heart warming. I know my parents will be thrilled as will my grandparents (1st baby in the family) but I'm still scared!

I love the idea of the babygrow :)

We told our parents christmas day and did it thorugh christmas cards.
AS a final 'present we gave them all cards saying 'what would you prefer.....granny or grandma?' (or the equivalent!)

It was so funny counting the seconds that it took my step dad to get the penny to drop!!

IT was a bit different and they all loved it!

My MIL will have a significant birthday a month after DC is due, so we told her we were following the great Blue Peter tradition of making something ourselves!