How did you tell

[bibliothecary]

I waited until second tri. My parents were asking me if we were planning to go to GenCon this year and I said "well, we'll probably be busy with the baby."

I am a smooth motherfucker.

[cnf2013]

My aunt had a combination heart attack and stroke about a week prior to getting my BFP. On a Friday morning I called my dad from school and he told me they were going to take his sister, my aunt, off life support. He was totally crushed. When I got home from work I tested only because I was desperate for something good to happen and amazingly enough got a squinter. Confirmed with a FRER the following day and we drove out to our parents and told them right away in person. It was a wonderful bit of news for my family during a difficult time. We even got to tell my aunt before she passed. There was nothing cute for us, just trying to make my family feel a little happiness during a dark spot.

[tinydancer]

Whoa, this gave me all the feels!

I just called my mom, nothing special, but my in-laws were visiting so we told them in person. We bought some grandma bibs for MIL and gave them to her. She loved it. I'm really looking forward to telling MH's grandpa - we just learned he has cancer that's not treatable, so I think he'll love a happy distraction.

[jumpingpuddles]

With our first we announced to my inlaws at a family dinner. I typically bring dessert, so we brought a cake that said "congratulations, grandparents" to surprise them with. We live far from my parents, so I just told them over the phone.
Second one we put our daughter in a big sister shirt and waited for them to notice. This one we just had our oldest tell the grandparents, she was excited to make the announcement.

[mosy]

With DS I called both my parents that evening, and it was around FIL's birthday so we bought a card and wrote something about him being a wonderful dad and soon-to-be grandpa.

With this one we just called both sets of parents to tell them.

[uclameghan]

We sent them this picture via text then followed up with a phone call. I know everyone's seen it done a million times on Pinterest, but by 12 weeks I was absolutely wretchedly sick all damn day and this is the amount of cute I could manage. A whole bunch of our parents generation took a while to get it, so I think they hadn't seen something like it before (you know - the non-Pinterest crowd). It had the added bonus of me not having to talk a lot since I was often holding back the vomit.

[ugotstarbucked]

We told both sets of parents over the phone at 8 weeks after my pregnancy was confirmed by the OB. I just texted our siblings. We live across the country from my family and a 6 hr drive from my husband's family, so no in person announcements. Each set of parents spread the word to extended family, or they heard from us around 13w when we posted on Facebook.

[physiomeg]

My mom is crazy nosy and she had been fishing for info about if we were having a baby soon for months. I knew anything present or surprise related would be guessed before she even open or look at it. Instead, we just came over to hang out as usual and had about 30 minutes of totally normal conversation before I said, "hey, guess what? I'm pregnant!" She and my dad were actually pretty shocked and very happy.

We told my ILs via Skype and it was extremely anticlimactic as they weren't very demonstrative with their excitement.

For work (all my friends are the people I work with), I made half moon cookies with "Baby #$&@ due Dec 3rd" written across them and just left them on the communal table. As soon as someone read it and started screaming, the entire department gathered around and freaked. It was actually really fun. And then we ate treats, so double score.

[britterrss]

We were at my parents' house when I got my BFP at 6:30 am on a Saturday. Hah. I ran in the room to tell MH, then after a few hugs ran out and told my parents who were in the living room. "I'm pregnant!"

None of it went how I planned. I wanted to do the cute surprise stuff for MH and all grandparents. I got way too loud/excited though.

[booklover811]

I told my mom by giving her a picture frame with a note card in that said "baby xyz coming Dec' 15." She was someone I talked with a lot about our IF, so she knew we'd been trying. However, H had been out of town and came home for a visit on just the right weekend. When I gave her the picture frame she started sobbing. It was awesome.

ILs and rest of my family we either face timed, called, or told when we saw them next. Nothing compared to my mom though

[physiomeg]

Jul 7, 2015 20:54:50 GMT -5 britterrss said:

We were at my parents' house when I got my BFP at 6:30 am on a Saturday. Hah. I ran in the room to tell MH, then after a few hugs ran out and told my parents who were in the living room. "I'm pregnant!"

None of it went how I planned. I wanted to do the cute surprise stuff for MH and all grandparents. I got way too loud/excited though.

For some reason, this is how I see it happened from the description above....



It makes me happy. 

[britterrss]

Jul 7, 2015 21:11:26 GMT -5 physiomeg said:

Jul 7, 2015 20:54:50 GMT -5 britterrss said:

We were at my parents' house when I got my BFP at 6:30 am on a Saturday. Hah. I ran in the room to tell MH, then after a few hugs ran out and told my parents who were in the living room. "I'm pregnant!"

None of it went how I planned. I wanted to do the cute surprise stuff for MH and all grandparents. I got way too loud/excited though.

For some reason, this is how I see it happened from the description above....



It makes me happy. 

you hit the nail on the head.

[SubtleGrandeur]

For DD, my mom brought over her laptop for DH to work on and I had him change the wallpaper to a picture of my digital pregnancy test. She looked at it and said "Well, who put that there??" and totally didn't catch on. I said "Ummmm, mom??" and she realized what it meant and freaked out. It was awesome.

[sweetcali]

I told my dad at about 8 weeks by having my stepmom read a poem.

We told my ILs on Mother's Day by giving MIL a card that said "love, DSD, DSS, and baby due Nov 2015". She started crying and my FIL hadn't read the card yet but cried because she was crying. It was adorable.

[Squishy622]

All of our family lives far away. We told our parents/siblings over the phone right after my first u/s. The twin news was shocking enough, no need (and no brain space) to come up with anything extra clever.

[becwheat]

I told my family with a no frills phone call cause I was excited...

For my best friend I told her on a cake! She is the one who really set up my husband and I (we were all friends since HS, but she always told us to date) and she is a very emotional/excitable person. I knew her reaction would be big.

She hosted a 4th of July party and I told her I would bring a cake. So, I wrote "Baby BecWheat coming in FEB!". We were at her house for a half hour before she opened the cake box then she screamed! It was cute.

[threetaboos]

For the first pregnancy, I called my grandma immediately and told her. She knew we were TTC and made me promise Id tell her immediately. We waited a few weeks to tell the rest of the family. We bought onsies saying something about grandma and grandpa and wrapped those and gave them out to our parents. Both sets of parents seemed to like it.

This time we just did phone calls/ got together in person.

[feffy]

With DD, we told at 12 weeks on mother's day. We bought extra cards for grandmas and put my 8 week ultrasound pic inside.

This time, everyone knew we were trying and rumors started flying around because I didn't drink on Easter (I had just found out that morning). After that, it was "Well...??"

[frankenboom]

I was definitely most excited to tell my parents - first grandchild for them.

I had a "Big Brother" t-shirt that I'd bought a while ago and I put it on Frank (yes, the dog) and we took him over to my parents' house (we live 5 mins apart). I let him run in first and he was kind of going crazy so as soon as he finally stayed still they were able to read the shirt. My Mom caught on right away but my Dad was struggling for sure. Then my idiot DH was like "we're getting another dog!" And I almost killed him.

I took a vid but it has too many faces in it.

We told my in-laws over dinner a few days later and my MIL said she suspected immediately because I was drinking water instead of Diet Coke. I guess I'm a bit too predictable.

[fuzzylogic]

We just told people, either we called or had lunch with them to tell them. I'm not one for big announcements or cute stuff. I'd rather just tell people with my words and move on.

ETA: We waited until around 8w to tell my mom and FIL, MIL found out early because she was helping chaperone a band trip and we were at Six Flags so I couldn't do anything and ended up telling her why, and I told my sister around 9w. After the 12w scan we allowed the others to tell people as they saw fit.

[Deleted]

I found out right around Mothers day, so I gave this card to my mom, and had my dad read it with her.

[risscaboobs]

First person I told was Getzystark from TD/GKU (Don't wanna tag her for real). I texted her immediately after getting a super squinter on the first night asking if she could see anything. I was going to come up with some super cute way to tell my husband, but instead I just got into bed after my second wondfo came up with a second line, and I guess my face must have looked weird because he looked at me and said "what is it??". So I just told him. I told my dad, two best friends, and two co-worker friends that morning over the phone. We waited until after the 8-week u/s to tell his parents, siblings, and my mom - we also did this over the phone because we live at least 3 hours away from all of our family.

TLDR: There wasn't any huge, cinematic moment, but it was all very special to us.

[obie1680]

I found out I was PG with DS right near the 2yr anniversary of my fathers passing, so to lift everyone's spirits we told immediate family. We have a big get together at my dads favorite bar in remembrance. It's was hard to hide my non drinking from everyone, but the bartender is my friend she was also ttc so she knew made me mocktails all night. With this baby my dads youngest brother passed away the day I found out it was hitting my family hard as it brought up a lot of feelings, so we told them. For both pregnancies I told work right away as well.

[themrsjrd]

I love that video of the couple telling the grandpa. I teared up just watching the gifs, and definitely cried during the video when I first saw it.

How I told husband: It was a complete shock for us so I basically peed on a digi (14 DPO) and when it was positive I went and told him, "Well, it appears that I am pregnant." He replied "Really?" and I said yes then went to work lol.

The first people we told (with pretty much no fanfare) were his sister and one of my sisters and they were the only people who knew until the first ultrasound where we saw the HB. I think we told them the same day we found out.

How we told the immediate family: Husband stamped these pennies to give to the people we are close with. The downside to the pennies was that a lot of the people have terrible eyesight and couldn't read what they said lol. We did get good reactions though, from my dad who raised me who looked about as excited as he ever has (rather stoic guy) and my bio dad's family, who pretty much all cried.


We told close friends after we told family and I told my boss after the first US as well. I didn't tell the rest of work until after the NT scan, and didn't go public (on FB) until like 17 weeks haha.

[Deleted]

Whelp, I made it about five posts into this before real tears were rolling down my face.

[Deleted]

Our first: announced on Mother's Day with custom Hallmark cards for my sisters & our moms with a little saying about "love is another word for Mom, sort of like "Grandma/Auntie" is for you come this December." (Or something really similar)

Our 2nd, we let DS1 wear a "I'm going to be a big brother" t shirt to the annual Mother's Day brunch. Then just waited for people to notice. (Yes - Mother's Day again - apparently spring fever is a thing)

This one: Just did simple phone calls to family. Nothing fancy. My mom guessed it when all I said was "yea I'm not eating a whole lot of anything these days." I put it in FB for anyone else, with a cute image saying "Pink or Blue, can't wait to see, Mommy's Expecting Number 3!" I told DH when I came out of the bathroom after POAS & said, well hun, apparently I'm pregnant. He said "congratulations" with a smile & then rolled over in bed.

Each one was made a little less dramatic, but was still special in its own way for us.

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Jul 8, 2015 9:39:54 GMT -5 bluebird44 said:

DH was on a business trip, so I called him crying and sent a pic of the FRER. My sister guessed a few weeks later because she was at my house and found the pantry full of bagels and bread (I used to eat low carb) and a recycle bin with no wine bottles in it.

We told our families at Easter when I was I guess 10 or 11 weeks by including this photo in their Easter cards.


I've ridden horses my whole life and and teach lessons as well, so I borrowed my trainer's adorable pony for this photo shoot. DH made the sign. My family was in town for Easter and got it immediately and my parents teared up and were so excited.

DH's family was not as quick on the uptake, and he had to explain it to them over the phone (we mailed their cards). Oh well!

This will happen to me, I'm sure of it. lol

[Sparkly]

First pregnancy: Told DH by just going downstairs and handing him the test.
Told my mom on Mother's Day (had previously spilled the beans to my dad, because I work with him and was sick at work) by giving her a bib that said "I have the Best Grandma Ever" and a grandmother's brag book photo album. She was shocked, surprised, happy, etc.
We told my IL's similarly -- gave little gifts like a mug that said something about being a grandma is my super power or something to my MIL, auntie bibs/onesies to SILs (sent in a surprise package to SIL in Colorado), etc.
So we made a fairly big deal out of it with everyone, then went public around 15 weeks on FB. Here is that announcement (PDQ):



This pregnancy: Put big sister book, test, and bottle of champagne on counter for DH to find when he got home from work.
Told my parents over breakfast around 6 weeks, ILs in person a few weeks later, when we were able to see them, called both my SILs after we told MIL & FIL.
No gifts, tshirts, or other surprises, just went and showed 8 week U/S pic and were like, well we're having another!
Everyone was very excited but not surprised since we'd hinted at trying sometime this year (younger SIL who lives here actually knew we had been trying for a few months already).
Went public on FB this weekend (same day as DD, just 2 years later), with this photo captioned: "8 years together, 3 years of marriage, 1 house, 1 dog, and TWO babies! Announcing Baby Sparkly 2.0, expected January 2016!"

[sonpetitlapin]

I really wanted to wait until 2nd tri to announce. H had other ideas and pretty much told his family right after I got a positive pee stick. I really wanted to wait to tell my mom. Considering 12 years earlier when I told her I was pregnant with my son, she informed me I need to abort him.

H changed his FB profile picture to our first U/S picture on 4/1 the day we got married. I was going to tell mom if she came down to the wedding but she didn't so I kept shut. When I talked to her a week later she asked if there was anything I else I wanted to tell her. I told her, well, I think you already know. Yes, I am pregnant, currently 10 weeks. She was actually pretty happy, surprisingly.

[Lollipop]

I texted my parents, sister, and BFF, right after I told H. H texted his parents a few days later (he avoids talking to them as much as possible). I called my extended family, in NB that weekend.

And then we made a FB announcement for everyone else.