re: How to tell the parents your preggo...

after i found out, my husband told me that i had to tell my folks asap. so when i got home, i sat my mom down away from everybody else and said, mom, im pregnant. she told my grandmother. then everone known.

you all shared some great tips. I hope to share some with my sister. I think it will be helpful when she tell our parents

My mom knew was sup lol she has been with it with all her kids, and her self so just by taking a look at my eyes she knew was sup . She is the one that took me to the clinic to get me checked and Bought the test when i took them and they came out postive she was happy but she already knew lol her and my sister knew was sup!! but now we just need to tell my daddy lol and thats gonna be hard hahaha because i am a daddys girl lol.

Quoting JenRoyce:“ Thanks to pink_vee_dub for the sticky idea! We see this topic brought up a lot. Share your experiences! ... [snip!] ... How did you tell your parents you were pregnant? Or if you have any words of encouragement, please share as well  ”

Well im 19 and I was terrified to tell my daddie so i told my mom on the phone after i went to the doctor to "conferm" it. ( I live with my dad) they ar sepersated but still friends, and i asked her to tell him for me cuz i was to scared lol. and i wanted to wait till i was showing but that didnt happen til i was 5 months so my mom ended up telling him a week later.. he was mad but got over it quickly and joking said it better b a boy if she wants me to help rais it lol cuz all he has is little girls and no boyz yet haha but i felt better havn my mom tell him cuz i was scared enough as it was.

well knowing my parents i was terrified to tell them the knews i thought i would be dead or something. but i just went up to them and said hey you kno what i was supposed to get my peorid today but i didnt. they asked if i thuoght i was pregnant to please tell them it would be alright so i just said yeah and they took me to buy a test and it came out positive :]]

My period was over a month late when i finelly took a pregnancy test I was at the beach with my family for the weekend when I took it. I was scared shitless. I am only 16 years old and the father and me are not together, never have been and never will we're just friends and to top it all off hes 19. Well I found out I was pregnant, at first i didn't tell anyone besides my cousin who is spending the rest of the summer with us. When he got back he took me to the doctor, I was seven months pregnant at the time.
I texted the Dad of the baby on the way back telling him that I needed to talk to him, he was at the airport going to PA for 10 days so i was going to have to wait till he got back to tell him. But he kinda already knew because week after week I had been telling him that my period had still not come. The day he was supposed to come back I texted him and told him we needed to meet up and we needed to talk. When he told me he couldn't i kinda lost it and replyed 'i'm eight weeks pregnant with your kid we NEED to talk' And he told me he was still in PA. He called me about 5 mins later and told me that he had gotten a job up there and he wasn't coming back. As soon as I heard that I broke down crying.
Then when my Mom came home form work she already knew. My cousin told her and she kicked me out of the house. I thought her of ALL people she would understand me because she had me when she was only seventeen years old. Only a year older then me.
I was only out of the house for a few days before she let me back in, but she hasn't talked to me since. I know she'll come around.
But for the Dad I dont know. He keeps telling me that he'll pay to get rid of it and that we're just friends and he dosen't want to be with me he just wants to stay friends. I want to keep the baby, OUR baby but he is having a hard time believeing that. He dosen't understand how i cant get rid of something that we dont even know yet, cant even love. But I just cant. I know I'll get child support for him but I think he is going to be just like my dad, who was also nineteen when i was born.
He told my Mom that he would be there when she was pregnant with me. But when she gave birth to me, he heald me in his arms pissed his pants and give me back to my mom(no lie) and my mom and me didn't hear form him again until i was three. On my thrid birthday he showed up at my Grandparents house and wanted to be apart of my life. He was there for me all the way up till I was seven. It was fathers day and I was waiting outside for my dad with my shoes on and a card I made for him at school. I was waiting outside all day and he never showed. Turns out his girlfriend(future wife) didn't want him to have anything to do with me or my Mom so once again he was out of my life. He changed his number and he moved so that me or my Mom couldn't find him. I loved my dad so much when I was little, I wanted to be just like him. I changed my favorite color form pink to green just because that was his favorite color. I wanted to play football so he could come to a game so i could see him more. My Mom said no to the football and put me in cheerleading in stead. But when I was cheering and my dad never came and saw me i quit. It crushed me so bad when he left when I was seven. It wasn't till my sixteen birthday (this year) that my Dad called my grandparents found out where I was having my party and he showed up. Trying to be apart of my life once more. But get this he married that girlfriend had two kids with her (Carol is six and Sara is four) and the only reason he wants part of my life is because Carol wants an older sister. So my dad who now has money is sucking up for me for all those years that he wasn't in my life so that Carol can have an older sister.
My Dad is not a dad to me so I havn't told him about me being pregnant and I'm not going to. He can find out on his own.
Yeah so thats how everyone found out I was preganat. I told my cousin who told my Mom. I told the Dad in a text message and my 'Dad' still dosen't know.

I told my mom in a very strange way I was afraid at first but i wasnt ashamed so i showed her the pregnancy test she told my grandma who told everyone else. so i must say it feels better to tell someone then not to!

My story is actually quite funny. just kidding. I was in treatment and i took a pregnancy test before i missed my period and it was negative, then i missed my period and i had asked my counselor for another and she said that "there was no possible way" that i could be pregnant. She had told me the reason why i missed my period was because of stress. I went with that for a couple of months, (i was 15 at the time) then like after about...3 months without my period my mom asked me when it was suppose to come, i just told her i didn't know and she sent me to the clinic. So we had basically found out together, and she was quite excited about it! My dad on the other hand said he was pretty embarrassed because i was barely 16 and i was already pregnant, it took him a couple of months to accept the fact that i was gonna keep my baby. Everything is fine now and both my parents are REALLY close to my son.

Now with THIS baby, i started getting sick and i pretty much already knew i was pregnant, I just didn't know how to tell her. Then one day she said she knew that i was late on my period and she heard i was pregnant now everything's all good.

I never really had to tell my mom that i was pregnant, she pretty much found out on her own. I do encourage you to tell your parents though, they could be A LOT of help.

Quoting Alena_B:“ I am from a very strict Greek family. They have been through so much this last year with my other siblings. ... [snip!] ... *Question for other teen's who are still in highschool....did you stay in regular school or go to an alternative school?”

I switched to an alternative school. The policys there are a little easier on you for missing school Which is needed when the baby finally does come along. Just work as hard as you were before. Thats my only advice.

when i found out i was pregnant with my daughter i decided to tell the father first then use him as a jumping off point on how to tell my mother. my mother is a VERY strict religious person. anyways, while i was at my boyfriends she had gone in my room for my laundry. (which she only does when she bored lol ) well while putting my shirts away she opened my dresser and found the about 50 different pregnacy test i had taken (all positive) and when i came home she threw them at me saying i was no longer her child. she eventualy cooled off and came with my boyfriend and i to the ultrasounds. since we are still in high school we choose for the baby to be adopted. she's almost5 months old now.

I didn't.
I just ignored the whole situation.
When I missed my second period, and visited the doctor,
My mom was like "I'm not stupid."
I know she isn't. I knew she knew...
Thats why I said nothing  

I'm still working up to tell my mom I'm in my second trmester and its hard. I dont want to disappoint her so I still can't bring myself to say Mom I'm pregnant to her. I wish I could, but I'm planning on tell her next week after I get paid.

Quoting newmom12009:“ I'm still working up to tell my mom I'm in my second trmester and its hard. I dont want to disappoint ... [snip!] ... can't bring myself to say Mom I'm pregnant to her. I wish I could, but I'm planning on tell her next week after I get paid.”

trust me I know how difficult it is. Im five months and I just told my mom yesterday. I've been vomiting alot lately and yesterday on my way to work, JUST after eating a toaster strudle I told my mom to pull overe and I threw up on the curb. She asked me if I was pregnant, and I must've given her the most frightened look of my life. She was upset most of the day, but I was surprised at how well she took it. It really does feel better when you have someone behind you that you love so much, so I encourage everyone to tell their parents ASAP. I regret I should've told them sooner.  

Quoting newmom12009:“ I'm still working up to tell my mom I'm in my second trmester and its hard. I dont want to disappoint ... [snip!] ... can't bring myself to say Mom I'm pregnant to her. I wish I could, but I'm planning on tell her next week after I get paid.”

im almost 5 months havent told my mom but she looks at me weird at times 
im afriad of wat the outcome will be is y i dont tell her ..  feeel like u t times it is dissapointing to most