How to tell your parents you are pregnant?

[bossgirl94]

I want to tell my parents I'm pregnant. It's very early days I'm only 4 weeks at the minute but plan to tell them at 5 so I can have their support. We are also thinking of telling the in-law parents next week too and then siblings after 12 weeks can.

But because it will only be 5 weeks we won't have had a scan yet. Any ideas how to tell parents?

For clarity they will be excited just won't have a chance to tell them for the first time ever again

I gave my mum and MIL a scratch card and it said “guess what” then when you scratch the love heart it says “we’re pregnant!”

I asked mine if they would prefer to be called Nanny/Granny/Grandma. Stunned silence then shrieks of joy!

I got really het up about telling my mum for some reason. No idea why because I'm 28 in a LTR. Put off telling her for weeks then one night my partner was like come on we need to tell her so we went round and I still couldn't say anything so he told her 🤣 and then she was crying and over emotional which I found v awkward!

This was me too 😅

I remember trying to be all sort of cryptic on the phone to DM with the first and said something about ' hope you're still into knitting'
It all went a bit flat after that as she didn't understand why I was asking and started chatting about what she'd last knitted!
I think with the second I just told her I was pregnant, a lot more sensible imo

Christ!

DS1 just went over to visit as normal just chatting about normal things and said oh by the way I’m pregnant baby due March. No fuss

ds2 I had bleeding at 6 weeks so told mum because I needed her to watch ds1 while we went to epu ( I’d suffered 3 miscarriages 2 after 12 weeks so epu saw me on request). We told MIL and DH siblings via WhatsApp group just out scan picture in

DD told mum again around 6 weeks due to epu appointment and needing childcare. Everyone else was just a WhatsApp of the scan at 20 weeks when I was sure everything was ok

no fuss really.

"I gave my mum and MIL a scratch card and it said “guess what” then when you scratch the love heart it says “we’re pregnant!”"

We?

This is brilliant!

I gave the test to my mum and she looked confused/disgusted.

We went to my mum’s house for tea one Sunday and after changing DN I put a T-shirt on her that said ‘I’m going to be a cousin’.

We had had a long journey of infertility and it was honestly one of the most precious moments in my life. My mum cried.

Congratulations on your lovely baby, OP.

‘Hey mum - I’m oregnant’
’no you aren’t. You told me you never wanted children’ (NB this never happened).

fast forward 6 months (DH on phone from maternity ward):
’hey KittensMum - kong had the baby! It’s a boy and his name is XX (late fathers name) James !!!’
’oh. So you’ll call him James then…’

thinking back - yes, my mum was a bit bonkers…

On the phone.

Told my Mum to mark a certain date on her calendar about seven and a half months ahead.

She was baffled
I had also forgotten that she never has a calendar.

Ring or in person. It’s so early, so personally I wouldn’t do a special thing (well I’m not the kind to do that anyway!), but although it’s exciting, it is early days and there is so much to go through yet.

Seems fair enough to me tbh

My dd gave us a card to announce it, pic of different footwear with their names under, pic of their dog's pawprints and then some baby footprints. Message inside said 'coming soon'. I thought they were announcing they were having another dog! Easily confused, me.

I told my Dad and sister by telling my sister I'd found the perfect accessory to my bridesmaid dress for her wedding and then showing her a coordinating baby sling. I was due two days after her wedding, oops 😂😂

Quite a few stories here here elaborate jokey ways of doing it have fallen flat or just caused confusion. I'd stick to just using your words.

Gave my parents a photo frame with "Baby Surname coming soon" written on nice paper and put in the frame, which was swapped over with photo of baby when they were born.

I got a Christmas card for my mum from the bump and then had an early miscarriage on Xmas Eve. This time I just sent them a text, didn't want to jinx anything but wanted them knowing as it was coming up to Mother's Day and didn't want them feeling sad for me. I told them at 8 weeks when we went for a reassurance scan and had seen a heartbeat

I just said to my dad, 'you're going to be a grandad'. He was absolutely over the moon. We told DH's parents on his mum's birthday by signing her card from 'the three of us'. She read it, put it on the mantlepiece, and then about five minutes later she went 'But you've got two dogs - it should say "from the four of us"...' We just looked at her until the penny dropped and she screamed, picked me up and danced round the room with me, while FIL sat there going 'What? What?' 🤣

Is it just me that always thinks this is a bit gross? 😂

WhatsApp x3 for us 😄

Anything that involves handing someone a used pregnancy test is revolting. You've peed on it; even if you then wrap it up, the fact that you've peed on it still applies.

I can't be bothered with the cryptic announcements like handing them a present that's a baby onesie. Fine if that's what you like, though, it's just something I find a bit naff.

I just told them both times!

It's manky. You wouldn't put a lateral flow test in an envelope.