When did everyone make their pregnancy public?

[Maedoula]

Just wanted to get some ideas as to when would be a good time to tell friends about pregnancy?

I waited until 12 weeks as that is when chance of miscarriage plummets way down. It's not easy waiting, you feel like you want to tell everyone you see!

But each to their own...

I waited until about 28 weeks for some, (colleagues, friends) there's some I still haven't told and I'm due in a week.
Just feels like jinxing things and I can't bare untelling them when something goes wrong.

Am 13 weeks and waiting for scan, blood tests etc..if they look ok then will start to tell people.

Told family and friends after the first scan. Didn't announce it publicly at all, though it made it onto facebook at about 6 months-ish (Friends who lived far away asked on FB how me and bump were).

For my first I kept it quite as long as possible and actually I wish I hadn't it was just awkward and an elephant in the room because people guessed. Relatives also got pisses off with us.

For this baby I told my family as soon as I got a positive test and did the cheesy fb thing after the 12 week scan.

At 8 weeks because I had to explain the constant vomiting to my boss.

He thought I was on the booze!

Last week for colleagues and social media. I was 14 weeks. We started telling family and close friends at 12 weeks in person.

At 8 weeks I told family and 9 weeks I told work. I had HG so it was pretty impossible not to mention it. If I hadn't had the sickness so badly I would have waited until 12 weeks.

About 9 weeks for my immediate team at work due to sickness, 12 weeks for everyone else.

I had to tell work at 5 weeks (work in care and someone had shingles)

We told our parents at 8 weeks after private scan. Rest of family and friends after 12 week scan.

We told our parents and siblings pretty much straight away. Had a private scan at 8 weeks (we'd been trying for a long time, having tests etc so wanted to know if it was ok so far) and told close friends after that, they knew we'd been ttc.

Came home from the 12 week scan and told dd, after that it went public to everyone!

With my 1st only my DP knew until 13 weeks then i told family and work manager, and 16 weeks i posted on FB/instagram

With my 2nd I told DP, and close family right away and waited until 16 weeks to announce on social media

I told immediate family immediately (my side not dps though as he didn't want to mostly because of the size of the family), dps side we told roughly 10 weeks, my 12 week scan was annoyingly just after Christmas, everyone else just whenever I saw them really!! Xx

As and when it came up. So friends I saw at 5 weeks I told then, some I didn't see until 30 weeks I told then. Immediate family pretty much as soon as we knew.

My first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage at 10 weeks. Didn't make me any less sure about just telling whenever we saw people and not waiting till the 12 week mark

We told MIL straight away (my DH was a mummies boy so practically ran to her house to tell her), we told my family when I'd been to the doctors.

I told work at about 8 weeks as I had some bleeding and I was crying in work.

Friends were told after scan.

Posted on social media a few weeks after that.

I don't think there's a right or a wrong time, if you would be comfortable telling people you've miscarried then I wouldn't wait. One of my friends told everyone from minute go, she said that if she had miscarried she wouldn't regret telling people

I think it depends on the circumstances- whether you're close to your family, whether it's you're first, whether you've had past MC's.

We've decided to tell people after my 8 weeks booking appointment. We've decided that if things do go wrong, we'd want people to know, and wouldn't want the awkwardness of announcing the pregnancy and miscarriage all in one go. It will only be parents, grandparents and siblings though.

If you are going through IVF sometimes you have to tell work when you are ttc. Just depends on where you work and your duties etc.

I had two MMC last year and didn’t find out until the first scan so this time I waited until I had the scan and had reached second trimester before telling anyone. I also waited for the NT results to come back low risk.

Also, I didn’t tell many people I was pregnant the last two times so I didn’t have any awkward ‘I’ve miscarried’ chat as it was only those closest to me that knew.

I found my miscarriages incredibly painful and I wouldn’t have wanted pitying looks from everyone and their dog or to make a social media announcement.

12 weeks for general release. Pretty much straight away for family.

1st time 12 weeks apart from my riding instructor and DH's parents. This time as it becomes obvious to people around us (boob and midriff expansion is hard to disguise!)

My family all knew at around 13 weeks after the screening tests all came back clear. The in laws still don’t know and I’m 17 weeks 😅

We told close family (parents, siblings) after the 12 week scan. Friends, work colleagues, grandparents, aunties etc after 20 week scan. There are still distant relatives and acquaintances who don’t. I’m sure a pregnant looking photo will eventually pop up on Facebook which will get people asking though.

First one- whenever we had the gender scan. It was our excited first time, quite a few social media posts, worked full time so all colleagues knew.

Second- kept it quiet until 36 weeks I hardly saw anyone during pregnancy (SAHM) so did an announcement two weeks before popping!

Had to tell the team I managed at the time fairly early as had a few scans for bleeding and didn't want them gossiping about reasons why I wasn't in work. Maybe 8 weeks?

Found out I was pregnant 3 days before Father's Day so we told our parents then, may have been early but we were excited.

Everyone else, as and when we saw them but there were a few posts on social media, no scans though.

I'll keep it off social media if/when DC2 comes along.