Advice for a newby on telling people I am pregnant please....

[beansprout]

Will be 12 weeks on Friday (hurrah!!!) and of course, can start telling people beyond close friends and family.

This is my first, so has anyone any advice on how to deal with different reactions? Or general "how to deal with being public property/the pg police" from here on in?

Smiling sweetly in the face of things I don't want to hear has never been one of my greatest skills!

fisil and aloha, I nearly peed myself laughing at your answers to awkward Q's

Weirdly (to me), some men (dare I say, black men - not a racist comment, far from it!) obv found pg women attractive. While most of the white, middle-class men I worked with were clearly deeply embarassed by my belly (she's had sex...eek!! She's a...woman...eek!) I got wolf-whistled by several black guys, and at work they always gave me lovely compliments - ie you look beautiful today. I was working in Notting Hill so it was quite common and a huge ego-boost when feel large and cumbersome, so it's not all bad Beansprout!

Aloha - I live very near to Notting Hill so am going to hang out down there, with it all hanging out. Ahem.

Congratulations Beansprout!

Re: unwanted advice from well-meaning people (and you'll get this on every topic from pushchairs to pelvic floor exercises, not to mention once the bub has arrived), just say 'Thank you - I'll bear that in mind'. Worked for me last time, and it's my stock phrase for this time round too.

Congratulations beansprout.

With our closest friends, we all planned a big meal out. Dh secretly ordered some champagne and we told them there and then together and celebrated. That was pretty early on in the pregnancy though so no one had guessed!

I did like the being pregnant attention thing a bit - unlike me really as I don't normally like attention at all. Wasn't keen on strangers touching me but I just usually stepped back a bit and made some appropriate comment to leave.

Beansprout CONGRATS!!! you are so lucky to get over the hump and get out there and tell everyone, you can definitely let it all hang out and show your bump! Keep on smiling!

Congratulations Beansprout!
When Iwas pregnant with DS1 I dropped it casually into conversations with the different people I wanted to tell. I told one friend when I went to see her in hospital after her baby was born I think I said something like: Are they looking after you in here then? She said yes (thank God!)I said: So they'll be alright looking after my baby then...
She was really pleased!
I loved telling people I was pregnant although, as Zerub says (she writes such sense!) you may need to be careful when telling some people. The hardest for me was that my SIL had an ectopic pregnancy just as I got pregnant and my sister lost her baby at 32 weeks - just as we were about to tell people. It was very difficult for a while.
Sorry - just realised you probably don't want to hear that
On the "advice" front, someone I know suggested you ask nosey advisers where they did their obstetric training...that normally shuts them up!