How did you/are you going to tell your family that you're expecting?

[Penny2012]

I'm 10 weeks pregnant and looking forward to being able to tell my family that I'm expecting on 9th March after our scan and nuchal tests are all hopefully ok. I'm trying to think of creative ways to let parents and family know. How did you tell your family or do you have any good ideas about how you'd like to tell them? :-) x

Haven't got any good ideas, but we phoned the in-laws to tell them that we had a small (4 numbers) lottery win. She was so excited to be able to give us the news that BIL and his wife were pregnant that we couldn't not tell them that we were also expecting, and due one week earlier. Had hoped to keep the news to ourselves for a few more weeks, MIL was beside herself as sons had been married for 10 and 5 years and she was giving up hope of ever becoming a grandmother.

Ahh that's a lovely story!! Hope everything works out well for you x

Oh, and congratulations. Can we look forward to a live birth thread I love a live birth thread?

It did - he's going to be 16 this year

Maybe we are just horribly boring but we just rang our parents and told them I was pregnant.

Phoned all immediate family (inc cousins) and texted those who didn't pick up the phone! Then made a list of 'proper' friends and emailed/PM'd/texted all of them. Everyone else was informed via Facebook :-)

I would hang off telling them until mothers day and get a grandmother card and put a pic of the scan inside it!

Ooh, just remembered: I did text my sister a photo of my positive pregnancy test! Got no response, so phoned her to ask if she'd got it.

Sister: "Yeah, I got it."
Me: "So... we're pregnant."
Sister: "Well yes I assumed that. Why would you send me someone ELSE'S pregnancy test?"

Grr. Shouldn't have expected my much younger sister to be THAT excited I suppose, but a congrats would have been nice!

Everyone else was ecstatic

I announced my pregnancy at Christmas with cards made up with my baby scan photo and a message from the baby, I think it went down rather well although a few people didn't know what they where looking at, mainly the men ha

Once we'd told MIL, we didn't have to tell anyone else She was having not one, but two grandchildren and wanted the world to know.

Well I like the mother's day idea. I'm in a big show the following week so I will be absolutely shattered on the Sunday so I might use that as an excuse to "bring mother's day forward!" and give them a scan pic in a frame as a present? The following night we're going to stay with all DH's family so will tell them together then.

Gave my mum a baby knitting pattern and amend if she knit it for us.

I refused wine at a family get together. The room stopped

Wrote a happy birthday auntie love from bump card to my sister. After a moments confusion she got it n cried

DD was due mid December so told family by saying if someone arrives in time there is going to be an extra person to buy a Christmas present for.

I like the Mothers Day idea.

I said to my mum and dad "I passed a test the other day..." They assumed it was something minor and casually asked "oh yes? what sort of test?" and I said "a pregnancy test". My mum burst into tears and ran out of the room :)

Haha! Love that! PassTheTwiglets!!!

Phoned my mum and asked her whether she would prefer to be called Granny or Grandma. She squealed!

Penny I am at the same stage as you - so far I have told my mum only as have had two MCs before, no DC yet, and don't want to tell anyone else til 12 weeks. I was struggling to find the right moment so when I got a text from a friend asking if I wanted to go out to dance the night away on Friday I said "Well I'm going to have to say no to that because I can't drink at the moment because I'm 8 weeks pregnant". She was overjoyed but also pointed out I couldn't go out on Friday anyway as she was coming to stay with me and had bought us tickets for a show, which I had forgotten in my excitement

I didn't. I waited until they noticed.

I'm 10 weeks too and can't wait till the scan is over so we can tell the parents.
Our plan is to go to the scan (fingers xed its all ok) then go for lunch, then stop by the churchyard and tell my Dad first (he died 3 yrs ago) then go and see my mum followed by DP's parents. Both my sisters live abroad so I'm going to stick my scan picture on to my stomach and lift up my top to show them via skype.

Waited till we went up for Christmas and put a DVD of the scan on when DM was out of the room and told her to come in because we had something to show her!

I rang them and told them we were expecting a baby girl in 3 months. That's what they get for being negative when we told them we lost our first. This time I've told them not to tell anyone, mention it, or get excited, but it's possible that we may have a new baby this year, at some point. Not told them when, but couldn't keep it secret, as DD knows.

ShowofHands that is hilarious! Love it!
ladygagoo good luck! sounds like you have it sussed! Sorry you lost your dad :-(
MissCoffeeNWine sorry to hear they were negative. Sounds like they've reaped what they sowed there!

My mil guessed. Job done, didn't even get the opportunity to tell anyone else.