How did you announce your pregancy?

[Celoo]

I'm sure this has been asked tons of times but the search system doesn't seem to work for me.

I'm very early stages so a little way off sharing our news with anyone but I'm excited at the prospect of having that moment of telling friends and family. Would love to hear the stories of how other people shared their big news, particularly with parents.

I told our parents & my best friend very early as we'd had 3 MCs and I knew that we'd need support (emotional but also practical stuff like looking after the dog) if it happened again.

I did a low key Instagram/Facebook post after the 20 week scan to share with wider family & friends. No scan picture as I found those hard after my miscarriages. I couldn't face telling people face to face or directly and having congratulations messages I immediately needed to respond to, or them being more excited than me (as I was still very anxious about it going wrong).

I'm almost 29 weeks now and feeling a lot more positive.

My first pregnancy was a mmc. Second pregnancy (with dd) it was lockdown. Rang my family after 12 week scan and said, I'm pregnant. Job done.

We told our parents in person when we were quite early on. Nothing over the top though.

We'd been through a long infertility journey so didn't announce it on social media. It's really hard to see those announcements when you're struggling to get pregnant.

We told others as we saw them once I was past 12 weeks.

We had found out while away on holiday so we brought “gifts” back for our family under the pretence of it being a souvenir but I actually wrapped up some little baby shoes. It was really cute and everyone was shocked since we were going through infertility!

Forgot to say that we didn’t announce at all on social media, not my style and everyone that I wanted to know I told myself

Just said it when we saw people! though waited til after 20 week scan in all pregnancies.

Many congrats. Just told close family and friends, whilst a pregnancy is really exciting for the mum to be & close family, most friends and colleagues really aren’t that bothered, so be prepared for that.

Like others have said, we just told family and friends when we saw them. I think it is nice to tell people in person, if you can. Also, if you are thinking about any social media announcement I'd keep in mind that scan photos can be very difficult for some people to see if they've had miscarriages.

I just told people.
Not need to announce

Just told people as and when I saw them, so some didn't find out till after she was born. I didn't want fuss.

I said “ I’m pregnant” possibly followed by “ I’m so excited”.

We just... told people as and when we talked to them. Didn't make an announcement as such.