So we're around 8 weeks and for the obvious reasons we have decided not to tell anyone (including parents and family) until we are 12 weeks.
Is it so unreasonable that I don't want to tell anyone??? It's nice having this secret that just DP and I know. I want it to stay like this forever. Silly I know.
But anyway. I'm quite a private person, I won't be doing the whole FB announcement thing, mainly because it's just not my thing tbh. It sounds weird but I'm kinda freaked out about telling my parents. I don't want the whole bump touching (in the future) constant baby chat. It inevitable I know. My family is close in their own weird way, but we aren't best friends kind of stuff. In an ideal world we'd have been 12 weeks at Xmas and I could have done a Christmas Card each with the scan on and labelled it "to auntie, grandma and grandpa, nanny" etc as we had them all for Xmas day and it would have been all the birds needing to be told with one stone and the excitement of Christmas Day would have meant the focus wasn't solely on me.
DP's mum is over in 3 weeks before heading home to a different country where we won't see her for 11months. Understandably he wants to tell her before she goes, but once that's happened I will have to tell mine and I'm petrified of doing so!! It won't be unhappy news for them. It's just me being weird.
Anyone got any ideas other than blurting it out? It must sound ridiculous to be struggling with such a thing, but you can't help who you are. This wasn't a planned pregnancy at all.
Hope everyone's had a great Christmas!