How far along were you when you told close family

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By close i mean the grandparents and your siblings. We've had 3 miscarriages so far which family all know about so I'd have no bother telling them as soon as we got a positive test but DH wants to wait till we have a scan picture at the 3 month scan which i don't see the point of

I'm sorry for your losses OP.

First pregnancy we decided to wait until the scan before telling anyone. I then had a miscarriage at 12 weeks (the day before our scan) and we then chose to tell close friends and family the sad news which was awful after keeping it to ourselves for so long.

Second pregnancy I decided that I actually wanted to share the happy stuff even if sad news followed. So we told close friends and family at 6 weeks. I pre-warned them not to get too excited but it was so nice to let it out rather than keeping it a secret. For me this was far better.

Best of luck for you and your rainbow x

I'm sorry for your losses OP.

First pregnancy we decided to wait until the scan before telling anyone. I then had a miscarriage at 12 weeks (the day before our scan) and we then chose to tell close friends and family the sad news which was awful after keeping it to ourselves for so long.

Second pregnancy I decided that I actually wanted to share the happy stuff even if sad news followed. So we told close friends and family at 6 weeks. I pre-warned them not to get too excited but it was so nice to let it out rather than keeping it a secret. For me this was far better.

Best of luck for you and your rainbow x

We told parents at about 6 weeks and swore them to secrecy (MIL didn’t cope and told DH’s gran 🙄 needless to say we weren’t happy) we then told the rest of the family after our 12 week scan 😊 it coincided with our last chance to see everyone before we went to Aus for Christmas so was lovely 😊

I think its better just to tell them and whatever happens will happen anyway because even after 12 weeks there's always that small chance we could loose it at any point in the pregnancy anyway

Sorry to hear you've had a hard time OP.

I was 3 weeks and 4 days when I told my mum and sister (in fact I tested at work, couldn't get hold of my husband so ended up telling my sister first!!). I had a suspected miscarriage at 5 weeks + 3 days but couldn't get scanned for 2 days and I kept that to myself as I didn't want to worry them. As it was, it wasn't a miscarriage but a bleed due to twin implantation apparently - so told them at 5+5 that it was twins which was a tad early again.

I'd have wanted their support regardless so I wouldn't have got to 12 weeks keeping it a secret.

Im only about 4 weeks so far but im already showing so i don't get how we'd hide it till 12 weeks