Announcing a pregnancy
posted 8th Feb
Hello all, long time, no post. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section, I just felt it inappropriate to post in 'pregnancy issues'.
My issue at the moment is, I just found out I was pregnant about a week ago. I'm excited, my husband is excited, my friends are excited, and my sister-in-law and her husband are too. I haven't told anyone in my family, and I asked my husband and his sister to wait to tell their parents until I've announced the pregnancy to my family.
I honestly have no idea how to tell my parents. When people joke about me having another child, my mother insisted that I wait at least 5 years. My son is 15 months now and she doesn't think we should have another baby right now. I worry they're going to give me a hard time about this.
Would it be alright to ask for suggestions about announcing a pregnancy? Should I just sit them down at tell them? Should I try to make it fun(My parents are both middle eastern and I worry it would go right over their heads haha)? I'd love to hear some suggestions.
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We did the feet picture and the quote was something like "Our family is growing by two feet in 2013." It was on Pinterest.
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This time around we didn't announce until I was more than 15w along. Partially b/c we'd recently had a loss and wanted to make sure baby stuck. Partially b/c I didn't know what kind of reaction we'd get and didn't want to deal with any potential negativity.
I just asked my mom if she'd had any baby dreams lately since she always seems to have one when someone is expecting in the family. Alas, she's NEVER had a baby dream about me and I've had 4 pregnancies (this is baby #3)
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I was planning on getting DS a "big brother" shirt, and going to visit family, asking them to take off his jacket, then surprise! But no. DH told them all over the phone as soon as I told him
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For my first pregnancy, my parents thought I was still a virgin(oh the sheltered life). When my then boyfriend and I found out, we got married, made sure we were doing this right, then told them. They completely flipped, kicked me out, threw everything that I couldn't carry away. They didn't speak to me for a few months until my siblings convinced them to realize how stupid they were being.
I still have like PTSD of that day, like nightmares and everything. Yeah we're all cool, but I have like a bitterness toward them. They're so wonderful to my son now, and they've completely convinced people that they were totally supportive of my first pregnancy the whole time, but I have a feeling they aren't going to be very excited for this second one. I don't want baby #2 to be sort of neglected by their grandparents.
I'm going to wait a few more weeks, I'll make sure to post how it goes on here.
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Quoting Aiden's Mommy +1 Baking!!:" I was planning on getting DS a "big brother" shirt, and going to visit family, asking them to take off his jacket, then surprise! But no. DH told them all over the phone as soon as I told him "
I actually like the idea of a big brother shirt. That's really cute haha. I might do that, if you don't mind me swiping the idea haha
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Quoting Sammeh:" I actually like the idea of a big brother shirt. That's really cute haha. I might do that, if you don't mind me swiping the idea haha"
Go for it lol no problem. I never got the chance to do it, someone has to!! Good luck!
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I had my husband put my first ultrasound pik and "I'm gonna be a big brother" on my sons shirt. This past weekend we went to my parents for the Super Bowl party ( something my dad has every year no matter who's playing) while a lot of my fam was there. I had my mom take off my sons coat and that's how we announced it. It was a big deal to them! Everybody liked the shirt idea.
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I wish you luck. All I heard with my second was how we were stupid and were ruining our oldest's life. We were going to do the T-shirt thing but I was so dejected I just showed them our 12 week ultrasound.
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New Yorkposted 12th Feb
The night I posted this, my mother came over and started playing with my son. I was hormonal and had been close to crying that whole day, but seeing my mother in such a good mood with my little guy made me happy, so i just blurted it out to her.
She reacted the way I figured she would, she scolded me for about 20 minutes. But when I started sobbing, she let up and told me it was good news, she just worried about out finances. Thankfully she said she'd tell my dad, I didn't want to deal with that awkwardness lol.
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