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We know that breaking your pregnancy news can be an exciting time, so the team at Clearblue would love to hear about how you told your friends & family.

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So, how did you tell your friends & family that you're pregnant? Did you try to tell those closest to you in person? Or maybe you sent emails out? Perhaps you tried to be creative with your pregnancy announcement?

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With my first pregnancy (which ended in miscarriage) we told our close friends over my birthday dinner. Pregnancy 4 (which resulted in ds) I told my mum by presenting her with a scan picture

I put a copy of the scan picture in the photo album at the end of a series of photos from our recent holiday (knowing my dad would always gravitate towards the album when he came round). I then sat back with my cup of tea and waited...

It was fabulous.

We found out I was pregnant the week before Christmas.

We wrote our family cards with "love from bump" inside and gave them to them on Christmas Eve and just sat and waited for them to open them. It was amazing, my poor mum just lost it and sobbed and sobbed (happy tears I might add :) )

Sitting here cuddling my 4 week old DS (author of the cards!) and thinking that this Christmas will be even better now he's here

I found out I was pregnant at the beginning of December and brought cards to a special grandma, special uncle, etc. It was great to see everyone's faces! My sister screamed

Just told my family this weekend. My sister is returning to uni soon so I found a really pretty notebook and got my nearly 3yr old DD to draw a picture of me with baby in my belly. She then presented the notebook to my sister in front of my family and said "it's mummy with baby". I asked her where baby was and she pointed to my belly. Cue lots of screaming from my sis

I'm pregnant with my first and told both sets of parents in the same way over the same weekend after my 12 week scan.
I put the scan pics inside my iPad and said I wanted help understanding something. The confused surprise look on their faces while they were working out what the scan meant....classic!

Told only closest mates and family before 12 weeks

Had to tell work earlier because my job involves lifting

Dc2 blurted out to everyone outside dc1 classroom after the 12w scan with dc3 which isn't how I'd have told people! Unfortunately she had to come to the scan with me and sussed what it was about...

We told our parents in person, called our siblings and put a scan pic on Facebook for our friends. Boring, sorry!

The best bit for me was telling DH. First time round I left the test on his pillow to find when he got home from work. Second time I brandished the stick in his face as soon as he stepped through the door That one was a surprise...

With DS1 I gave DH my positive test on Christmas morning with his cup of coffee in bed. He looked, grunted, said 'does this mean what I think it means?' then said 'oh good.' Rolled over and went back to sleep (it was about 6am).

We told our parents by showing them the scan pictures with both children.

With DC1, I was pregnant at 18 and had only been with my boyfriend (now DH) for a few weeks. I was a bit nervous so as soon as I saw both of my parents in the kitchen I blurted out 'mum, dad, you're going to be grandparents!'.

They asked if I was happy, then my mum skipped off to tell my grandad!

My parents found out in the worst way possible.

I was still registered at the GP near their house although I had moved out to student hovel flat long before...

GP sent a letter out to 'mrscumberbatch'
Unfortunately my mother and I have the same name.

Cue: A Mexican standoff phonecall with tears, swearing and disappointment.

So yes, wouldn't recommend that mode of communicating the good news

I found out this morning! I used a ClearBlue digital and I wasn't expecting a positive result as I've been through chemotherapy and it was uncertain whether I'd be able to conceive at all. I had an uncertain result with a cheap test, so I did the ClearBlue to get a definite answer.

I went downstairs with the test in my pocket and couldn't get the words out, so I sat next to my DH for ages. He started tickling me and jammed his finger up my nose (he's nice like that). I told him that wasn't fair and I was going to retaliate, but he needed to close his eyes first - and then I put the test up his nose.

Invited my parents over for a meal. When we do really good meals, we sometimes write up a menu along with the wines we're going to have alongside Pretentious I know as dh is a real wine buff.

We wrote on the menu that we were going to have a bottle of the Grange (Hermitage, the top Australian wine) but given my condition we were going to have to let it age a bit longer.

....my dad cried :) it was my parents first grandchild

We did share the bottle of Grange with them a few months after ds was born. I expressed the milk, froze it with a label saying "alcoholic" and used it at later date when I wanted to be sure he would sleep

With my first I made a big deal about worrying about not fitting into my bridesmaid dress for my Sister's wedding (8 weeks before baby was due).It took a while for it to click and then there were tears. This time round we gave cards with a picture of DS on the front saying, "Iam going to be a Big Brother."

Phoned family, told close friends as when saw them, let the grapevine do the rest

I told my Mum when she came to visit. The rest of my family I told over the phone unless we were seeing them imminently. I told a work friend by excitedly showing him my scan just after I had it. He was impressively excited for me for a single bloke!

I was 43 and had had lots of chemotherapy so dh and I thought it impossible.
I did a test expecting it to be negative and ran out waving it shouting "I'm pregnant!" To dh who at the time was UP A LADDER. I later moaned that he didn't seem too excited

Told the folks on Mothering Sunday this year, gave both mums a picture frame of family tree with photos and included scan pic at the bottom, once they realised they both screamed! We have it on video, hilarious! They knew we'd been struggling and it was an ivf baby. Just a few weeks left now

I got a letter from the GP saying Dear NotCitrus, your blood tests show you are pregnant. Please see me as soon as possible and a pregnancy test may well now be possible.

I gibbered and repeated MrNC's name a lotand eventually gave him the letter, and finally read it to him as being dyslexic he was convinced he'd read it wrong after 10 years of trying.
He finally managed to say "well do you have a test? Go piss on a stick, woman!" We then both fingered a lot for the rest of the night.

After my GP told me I was about 5 months but he was "a big old poof who doesn't know about these things", I replied he did have a medical degree, and he packed me off for a scan.

Got to work grinning like a loon, and immediately emailed round to say not only was I moving to a new post on promotion, but was going to have a baby in 4 months. The vets at work claimed they'd guessed despite my losing 2 stone.

Told my mum that night: she asked who the father was.

We both gibbered a lot into the night. Not fingered. Why is that an autocorrect anyway??

I did wonder

Did a cheapie at 5:30 a.m. Faint pink line. Posted to my ttc group on MN ??
My very short sighted & not a morning DP wouldn't have been able to see the line so I decided to wait til after work to test again with a cb digi

Bought the cb digi & then left it intje car all day as I wouldn't have been able to not poas!

Got home & he'd seen the packaging for the cheapie & asked how we were doing ttc...

I said "wait there" & did the digi. Brought it out to show him the "pregnant 1-2 weeks" & we ate beans on toast as our celebratory tea ??

Sent a photo of it to my Dsis as she was feeling a bit miserable & about to be overseas for a while

She squeaked a happy squeak

Phone calls! The night of the tests

We told our parents in person early on.

Our friends guessed very quickly after a few weddings where I didn't have wine!