When to tell parents/in laws?

[LittleFox10]

Just wondering at what stage in pregnancy everyone told their parents/in laws?

I am only 6 weeks and my partner would like to tell his dad at Christmas, which then I will be 7 & 1/2 weeks, I still feel this is too early? I'd love to wait until our 12 week scan but that won't be until end of Jan/ beginning of Feb.

Also how did you tell them? Would love to know stories xxx

I'm so glad I found this thread as I was about to post the exact same thing. I've got such a dilemma about Christmas! I'm 5w tomorrow with my first pg. Under any other circumstance I'd never tell even my family until at least 8 weeks as I know how risky the first trimester is and I honestly can't think of anything worse than everyone fussing if something was to go wrong.

Saying that, we are going to my family at Christmas and we love a party and a drink. If I refuse the booze, they will guess something is up for sure. I definitely don't want them to guess - I'd rather just tell them than have them speculate. (Also no chance of me pretending to drink, they ALWAYS top you up!!) But at that time I'll only be 6 weeks.... is that far too early?? Or should I make their Christmas and tell them despite the risks?

I spend so much time pondering over this! Aaaagggghhh! HELP!

I had an early scan (private) to hear a heartbeat and then told at 8 weeks, so risk of miscarriage at that point was much reduced as I heard a heartbeat.

I'm too impatient to wait, but too cautious to tell without a scan.

I feel the same. My hope is that my nausea is so awful by that point that they will genuinely believe I am ill! Will be spending Christmas in quarantine for a non-contagious disease at this rate!

I found out I was pregnant the day before I was going home from uni for the Xmas holidays. So my now dh and I didn't even get chance to discuss it as he was working, and he stayed at home as he was working all over Xmas (uni city was 250 miles from home so we couldn't even meet up). Anyway we told both sets of parents over the phone in January, after we'd talked first. I mean it was all planned, but we still wanted to discuss it together properly.