I'm new and How and when should I announce it ?

[dawn96]

I'm new here but I just thought I'd join for my sanity really,I'm 21 mum to Luna (age 1) but 7 weeks pregnant and struggling not to break the news haha !my first wasn't planned and I had only been with her dad 3 months (officially - we were friends before) when I found out 🤣 I was absolutely dreading telling everyone but with number two we planned it for when number one was in nursery so October time is perfect for a new arrival and I can't wait to say anything, my friend knows but nobody else will until our first scan that's just how we'll do things, we did the same last time too. Did anyone else wait until 13 ish weeks to tell their whole family or did you all spill straight away? I'm also looking for good ideas to announce it but nothing too sweet or cheesy. I personally can't stand those overly cute poem announcements and things ☺️

We paid for an early scan and afterwards told family. I figured if, heaven forbid, something were to happen that I'd want family to know.

We told close friends in person, via text or over the phone after the 12 week scan and it was so lovely to see and hear their reactions.

Other than that, there has been no announcement as such as I didn't want to do a Facebook post or anything like that.

I’m 4 weeks today and after having a miscarriage last month I’m super anxious about it! My plan is to have a private scan between 6-7 weeks to check for a heartbeat then tell close family and 2 best friends then, everyone else we will tell after 12 weeks scan most likely. I’m so excited tho I want to tell everyone! People in work this week kept asking if I was pregnant because I was having hot flushes etc, but I’ll leave it as long as I can to tell them!

I'm really not close to my own family at all and had a miscarriage last winter and I'm glad I didn't tell them about it ,My partners boyfriend though I really wanna tell but it doesn't seem right telling them and not my own even though I don't really care if my family find out or not. It just seems rude I'm not sure. I was thinking of putting number one in a T-shirt that has "big sister" on it and then ha e the scan pictures at the ready for when we go to nanny's (boyfriends mum) but she might not even notice bless her lol