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We had the first scan just before Fathers' Day, so to tell DH's parents we put the scan picture in FIL's Fathers' Day card. It took a bit of prompting for him to work out he was looking at a picture of his first grandchild!

This is my first pregnancy and me and DH found out we were pregnant a weeks before our 1st year wedding anniversary.

We decided that we would tell our parents and brother but how and when!

We invited them round for a BBQ to celebrate our 1st year anniversary a week later and presented them with a cake we had made and we iced on it a stork carrying a baby bundle!

We showed it them all once they all had arrived it took them all a min to clue on but they were so excited, especially my parents as it will be the first time they are grandparents.

I told my mum on the phone then, when my dad came home, she made him a cup of tea in an 'I Love My Grandad' mug that belonged to my Grandad, handed it to him and passed him the phone. It took him a while to twig but he got there in the end!

We waited until after an 8 week scan to tell DP's family. We put on the DVD and waited for them to realised what they were seeing!

My pregnancies were pre-social networking so it was phone calls all round.
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DD we told family at a dinner. I made a toast about how lovely it was to have all six of us there, DH chimed in with "all seven..."

This time I'm going to put DD in a 'big sister' shirt on her day with the GPs and let them discover it when they take off her coat at their house

We told parents in person first, then our sisters by phone as they live further away. Most friends we told in person too. I prefer to do things personally rather than something like a big Facebook announcement. It was seeing their faces as we wold then that made it so special for us and the news was so special to them.

None of them live nearby, so put a placard saying "congratulations!" around our first child (our dog)'s neck, sent them the photo, and waited for them to ask why I was congratulating them!

I took a test on the Friday, my husband went to an away match for football (to watch!) so at the town we walked around like zombies on the Sat, on the Sunday went to a drop in centre as we had no idea what to do, we were told I was just to see my GP, Sunday night rang my parent in Australian then my husbands in the UK. We never considered waiting the 12 weeks, then the monday told our work - I would have been 4 weeks.

Not particularly creative- I handed over a scan picture

Email/phone the first time (was only 6 weeks bit going on a hen do!).

Similar second time, but to my friends getting rid of maternity clothes I just said I may need them soon (nudge nudge wink wink).

Nothing fancy!

For DD.

I was working away, doing a very physical job with long hours. My husband was with me. I did the test a couple of days early (IVF baby) and it was positive.

To my husband "We're pregnant"
Then a phone call to my parents "Hello Grandad"
Then my boss asked me how I was that morning and I said "Pregnant!" as I knew I wouldn't be able to do some of the work, so I was put on sandwich making duties for the rest of the weekend.

We always tell family first. In person, if we can, or through e-mail (though parents always get a phone call if we can't tell them face to face). For friends we've gone the Facebook route as it is quick & convenient.

We had a dating scan at 8 weeks with DD (5 months) and decided that was the right time to tell family... I don't think we could of kept it a secret for much longer! I took a photo on my phone of the scan picture and told our parents that we had just been to meet the new member of our family. Everyone looked puzzled and FIL asked what kind of animal was kept in a round cage we laughed and said no we were having a baby. Our parents cried and all had a glass of whiskey.

I didn't tell my family in an exciting way. I just rang my mum, who went out and spread the word to every person that has every known me lol

We told our parents first after teh 12 week scan, the scan went well and off we went to tell the grandparents-to-be!

I wanted a fun way to tell our families, we prepared a gift ready to share the news in the form of a babygrow with ‘ I Love Grandma’ or ‘ I Love Grandad’ written on them, their reactions were brilliant and everyone was as happy as we had hoped. My partners mum cried 3 times, it took her a while to get it at first tho and she thought we'd bought an outfit for her new puppy! Haha :)

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My parents found out when the scan picture had fallen out of my book and I hadn't realised, cue fuming phone call from my parents. (I was 19)

I couldn't contain my excitement. Me and my boyfriend drove to my mums to share our news. We sat her down and she burst into tears.

She looked a little shocked, she later told me, she thought I wouldn't be able to coupe.
Years down the line she says I'm a great mother.

Well, the rest of my family, got told over the phone and facebooked. Social media is great for announcements, a super fast way to share great moments with friends and family.

I made a loaf of bread with the due date on it then when it was time for dinner I asked dh to get it out. He didn't click why there was numbers on our bread so I had to tell him. :)
He really didn't click with the whole bun in the oven thing.

We put a scan picture in MIL's birthday card and gave it to her at a family meal. She opened it and just glanced at the picture looking confused, as did FIL - neither of them had seen a scan picture before so had no idea what it was. (SIL and BIL saw it across the table and squealed instantly). Eventually MIL asked why we had given her a picture of a lampshade!

I kept that pregnancy a secret at work as I had a lot of problems and wanted to wait as long as possible. At around 14 weeks I had an appraisal which got quite heated and eventually when my boss said he wondered why I hadn't left the company as I was obviously very unhappy, I yelled back "well if I wasn't pregnant I bloody would have left by now". There were a few moments silence before he very graciously abandoned the appraisal and we both calmed down and he was lovely about it, asking all lots of questions!

Feel like I was a bit boring! With dd, I phoned and said something along the lines of 'she really stole my thunder' sil had announced she was pregnant with number three the day before! My mum thought I was joking. With ds I told them face to face, they kind of guessed anyway.

I tested on the off chance of being PG and I was also a bit bored. Mega shock when it was positive! DP came home about an hour later (felt like 10 hours) and he knew something was up, I looked too excited! I told him and we had a little cry together ??
Told most of our friends at a party at 9 weeks, earlier than I wanted but it was too obvious me being the only one not plastered.
Sent a picture of the scan to our parents with a caption saying Hello Granddad/Grandma, can't wait to meet you!

DD1 is my parents first grandchild. I was 40 when I got pg so I think they'd given up hope of being grandparents! They came up for the weekend when I was about 17 weeks. I got a bottle of pink champagne and said 'Would you like a glass of champagne? - It's pink for a reason...'

They were very surprised and happy!

Good thing she was a girl as I'm pretty sure you can't get blue champagne and Blue Nun would not have been quite the same

I remember telling my DGM that we were expecting. "Expecting what?" came the reply... I suppose I asked for that!

With DS, we found out in November, and managed to keep it a secret til Christmas Day. Mum, mil and bil were round at ours, and we offered everyone a glass of champagne before dinner. When everyone's glasses were filled, we told them. Their faces were priceless, and we all had a glass to celebrate with (mine was non-alcoholic!).
In fact, that's the only time I've seen my mum drink two glasses of champagne.

Christmas dinner conversation was very jolly :)

With DD, we told mil first, the day after I poas, as she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and we figured she could do with some good news. Nothing fancy, just said "ds is going to be a big brother". Happy and sad for mil, as she realised she might not even get to meet her 2nd grandchild. (she did, and spoiled her rotten for 4 months)