How did you tell your parents you were pregnant?

[LauraBrown1]

I've been hinting on I'm feeling broody and wanting to start a family with my partner. I found out today I am pregnant and I'm planing on telling me and my partners family tomorrow. What would be a great way to tel them? Ideas? 🤰🏼❤️

Congratulations ! I was just about to comment that this time round we're using Xmas baubles 😂 previous 2 times we just went round and told them quite early on! Trying to wait til Xmas Eve this time

A cousin of mine arrived at her NC parents' home on Boxing Day with a one-month-old daughter!

I got my DH to tell them - I was oddly embarrassed to say it out loud. No idea why as it's nothing at all to be embarrassed about, and I was 32 and 34, married and in a secure position both times.

Love the bauble idea! I'm currently 5wks and planning on telling my parents (and brothers) when I go home for Christmas.

We got newborn baby grows made saying "we don't know of it's a he or a she.. all we know is you're grandparents/uncles to be". The box we have put it in has my fiancé and my shoes with some booties in the middle. Excited!!

@SundayShoes omg that sounds amazing!! Good luck and congrats 💫 xxx

Phoned and told no big drama although with our third we sent a pic of us holding the scan.

Waited til 3 months (previous miscarriage). Abusive parents lived 450 miles away. Told mother over the phone. “Humph. What are you going to live on?” was the less than enthusiastic reaction.
Well, as a 33 year old doctor entitled to maternity leave, married to an IT specialist, I couldn’t really see how that was a problem, but trust my vile mother to be anything but pleased.
Thankfully I finally went no contact with her at 8 months pregnant and she died four years later.
I sincerely hope your DM is the complete opposite, OP.

@Babdoc oh my goddess! Well first a huge congrats after the miscarriage 😞
What a awful person! So not even the slightest bit of happiness for you? I can imagine how it feels, even though you are over the moon you feel like you want your family to be happy for you as it's also a gift for them to the family. The main goal is your life and even though it's hard as it's your mother but you need positivity now as your have your little baby and it's all about making you and their life as happy as possible.
My mother was very pleased, she's currently battling her third year of breast C and it's been the most depressing time so she was over the moon when she found out I'll be giving her her first grandchild and making her a granny 👵🏼
I'm lucky I have support on both sides of my little peanuts family

I hope you are doing well now and I know if she were to see you today she would realise you are amazing and I can imagine you're doing an also amazing job as a mother. All the luck to you love xxxxxxx

Laurabrown1, thanks for your kind post. It’s all water under the bridge now - we had two daughters and then my DH died when they were still babies, followed by both my abusive parents dying within the next three years.
My DDs are in their 20’s now, both graduates who own their own homes 50 miles away. I never remarried- DH was wonderful and completely irreplaceable. I love my DDs to bits, and see them as often as I can, which is easier since I retired a couple of years ago.
I hope you have a much less rocky ride through life, and a happy family. My best wishes that your (much nicer!) mother has many years ahead to be with you.