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

loving some of these ideas! especially sticking scan pic on belly for Skype and that mothers day card poem catgirl - made my teary too! Lovely. I may have to steal that idea if you dont mind would help if I had a BFP first

We phoned immediate family after the our scan.

I like your style though, Showy. I still haven't told some friends and I'm 28 weeks tomorrow. I keep thinking I must get round to that.

Love this thread.

My mum had been desperate for years to be a grandmother. Every time she visited we'd have comments such as " oooh, will this room be the nursery?" or God forbid I had a headache or looked slightly pale "ooh, do you think you might be pregnant?". Honestly she was relentless. Anyway my cousin got pregnant and we were talking about this when we had my parents over for dinner. For once, possibly the only time ever she didn't bring it back to me getting up duffed.

I said it was lovely that my Aunt was going to be a grandmother and lovely that she wasn't going to be the only one. My mum smiled and nodded, then after a moment said " ooh, who else is then?". We were dumbfounded that after so many years of never missing an opportunity she didn't get it immediately :o

After a few moments of just staring at her like a school mistress she FINALLY got it and had the shakes :)

My ds and his partner called round for a coffee and he said casually "You look a bit different today,Mum...." when i looked puzzled he added "Yes,you look a bit like a grandma!" Cue shrieks and hugs

Steal away becky :)

good luck and congratulations to everyone expecting :)

With dd it was fathers day so gave my dad a card with 'grandad' on. At first he didn't twig and said "you cheeky sod!". It was my sister who worked it out then que hysterics!

This time, I'd bought a "I'm the big sister" tshirt for my dd to causally walk downstairs in. Que hysterics again! .

To tell dh I bought an I love daddy babygro, we'd been trying for a while so he just looked surprised when he pulled it out of the gap bAg wondering how it would fit him

With our parents we had them all over to lunch and told them. With fronds just as and when we saw them but by that time the bump was speaking for itself.

This pg dh was abroad when I found out so bbm'd a pic of the positive test saying good news? Kept all announcements to friends v low key - still haven told most of them!

We showed my parents and then PIL the scan photo. Both mums instantly were beside themselves with happiness, both dads didn't have a clue what they were looking at.

clawdy - that's lovely

These are making me well up and want another one :)

celestia - i like that one!! goes off to look for big brother t-shirts