When is the best time to tell my children I'm pregnant.

[KimH88]

I am 7 weeks tomorrow. I have a private scan booked for next Friday so if all is well we are hoping to tell ten children. Finding it hard to keep it quiet and my son is 11 so have to be really careful what we are saying when he is about.

Personally at that age I'd try and get to the anomaly scan.

20 weeks here. Although ds said he knew as my boobs had ballooned!!

Imo the untelling if anything should go wrong would be difficult..

20 weeks after the anomaly. I definitely wouldn’t even think about telling them before the 12 week scan. I had scans at 6 and 7 weeks where everything looked good but I still had a missed miscarriage, I definitely didn’t want my DC to know about that.

I had an early scan at 7+4 and saw healthy heartbeat etc but still chose not to tell them then (our eldest are 10 and 7). I've had my 12 week scan today so we're going to tell them after school today. I wouldn't be able to hide it from them until 20 weeks as I'm showing already! (Baby number 4)

Im waiting until im 13 weeks - after my first scan (all going well)

My kids are ages 7 & 9

You have ten children?! Wow

10 children? No i have 2 😂 my son is 11 daughter 7. I will probably wait until the 12 week scan but definitely not till 20 weeks as I wouldn't want other people to know before then. The thing is yes the first trimester is the highest risk of mc but anything can go wrong at any time in a pregnancy.

I waited till the second trimester scan at 19 weeks because I knew how excited my son would be about having a baby brother and would never want his heart to break if anything went wrong

My daughter is 12 and we told her after the 12 week scan. We had been through 1 MC and 3 MMC before so finally getting to this point in pregnancy was what we had dreamed of and I had it all planned out on how we were going to tell her (we did it on Valentines day ♥️) I made us all t.shirts and then made her a card telling her she was going to be a big sister and in another envelope I put a pic of the scan, her face was a picture and she is so excited.

I'm 14 weeks and still haven't told my two kids (12 and 9). I will wait until after the 20 week scan.

Oh it said tell ten children!!

Yes I would tell them now actually but it's only because I don't like hiding things from children example your appointments and stuff

Just had my 12 week scan today and will be telling 4yr old dd later on when DH is home. We’ve not said anything so far but the past two weeks she keeps saying it isn’t fair she doesn’t have a baby, couldn’t have timed it better

@cultkid that’s what I thought! 10 children and the oldest was 11

Cultkid I read the 10 children too, was trying to figure out how op didn't know the answer as surely she had gone through this 9 other times 😂

It was supposed to say tell the children 😂 just realised what I put by mistake. Will see how I get on with this scan next week and will probably tell them.

sorry I was wondering the same as the others thinking if you had ten under ten you must have a method of telling them by now!!

If I had 10 I would definitely have a method of telling them by now lol.

My kids were 10 & 12 and we told them after the 12 week scan. There was no way we could keep it a secret until 20 weeks!

I waited until 13wks with the baby i just had i dont think u can hide a bump until 20wks ,i wanted to tell my other children before anyone else i was struggling to hide my bump even at the early stages.

@Jamsponge71 @Mysocalledlifexx I agree 20 weeks is a long time to hide it. People will start noticing as it's my third and I want the kids to know before anyone else.

Hahaha yes, if you already had 10 - I don't think you'd be needing to ask!

Have always told mine after 12 week scan. Probably a bit earlier than I'd like, but they've always noticed me being pukey and tired and grumpy

Telling DCs1-3 this evening