When did you tell everyone?

I don't know if this has already been asked or not. But I'm curious when you all told everyone. Did you wait until you were done with the 1st trimester? Did you wait until you were really showing and could no longer 'hide it'?

When we found out we were pregnant I said I wanted to wait to tell until we couldn't hide it anymore. Things were rough (still kind of are) between DH and I and we don't have the most supportive families, so I didn't want to deal with everyone's unwanted comments. Plus, I had a weird feeling about this pregnancy and wanted to wait until things were looking good.

Well, after getting the u/s on Tuesday I'm just ready to tell everyone. I just need to convince DH into wanting to tell everyone.

 

With the twins, we told everyone at 9 weeks...a week later we found out it was twins and had to call them all back...lol! We found out I was preg at Thanksgiving (the day after my grandmother passed), so it wasn't great timing to tell people...so we waited and told them at Christmas.

This time around...we told everyone at 6 weeks.

I didn't tell work until 10 weeks with both pregnancies (after my first ultrasound)

 

With the twins pregnancy we told parents right away (we did IVF so they were kept in the loop). We waited I think only a couple weeks to tell everyone else. With twins, hiding it might have been difficult and we wanted to share. I kept it from work until I was 12 weeks along.
With this pregnancy, I just couldn't keep my mouth shut! I'm not normally like that. We told our parents the day after we found out and then everyone else over the weekend.

 

With both my previous pgs we only waited until 6-8 weeks to spread the word...6 weeks for immediate family, 8 weeks for the rest of the world. With this pg I was going to wait to tell everyone until like either 8 wks or 10 weeks... Well, I started bleeding at 5 wks, so my mom had to come watch my kids in a hurry one day...so I had to tell her...so she and my dad knew. We told the rest of the immediate family around 9 weeks (I had more bleeding issues and had no idea if the baby would make it...) Then we didn't tell the rest of the world until around 13 wks... 2 wks after my last bleeding episode.... and that one was a real doozy, blood gushing, clots passing, totally thought...yet again...that I was m/c. But I got to the point where I felt like I wouldn't be able to hide the pg much longer and if something were to happen everyone would find out sooner or later. We didn't technically spread the word ourselves to everyone...we just told certain people in our circle and then gave them permision to pass the word along. I just think it's easier that way when you are dealing with possible negative feedback or even not being sure if the pg will stick. That way you don't hear the comments about it, and if something bad happens you don't have to be the one to tell everyone...you can let the bad news spread by the same word of mouth....

 

Ith the twins we told everyone right away. i was almost 8 weeks when I figured out I was pregnant. Then at 16 weeks found out it was twins!! With this pregnancy I only told my BF. Then my mom at 5 weeks and the rest of the family at almost 6 weeks. Now we are telling everyone since we saw the ultrasound. Its just to exciting to keep quiet!!

 

When we found out that we were pregnant with the girls we told everyone immediately. Literally, I still was in shock looking at the +HPT. It never even crossed my mind to not say anything. When I got pregnant last year we told a few people in our families right away. Unfortunately, I wound up miscarrying and we had to then tell everyone that we lost the baby. This time around we kept it to ourselves for a short while. I told my mom second (after my DH) a week after finding out because I was having issues with my insurance and had to vent to her. My SIL found out next because she invited me to join an excercise class with her and I had to turn her down. Pretty much everyone else found out on Easter (I was about 2 months along). We weren't going to say anything but my in-laws put 2+2 together when I turned down both wine and coffee.

 

I'm only 3 days behind you! My first ultrasound isn't until the 12th and we are going to tell people after that. My parents, DH's parents, my sister and a few friends who noticed I'm not drinking anymore are the only ones who know. Our families all live 4+ hours away and haven't seen me since I was only 4 weeks along so it was easy to hide then. So the night of the 12th for family, and sometime after that for our slightly denser friends.

Work I haven't decided yet. I just found out I'm transitioning to a special project (to be done well before my due date) and I'll probably bring it up sometime after the 12th as well.

 

With both of my pregnancies we have told eveyrone just about as soon as we found out. Which seems to be around 6 or 7 weeks.

 

With Chloe and Cole, we told at 9 weeks. Then suprised everyone with the twin news at 15 weeks (2 days after we found out). This time, I think the timing was just about the same, 9 weeks, at least for my friends and family. DH didn't tell his family until I was 21 weeks.

 

with all three of my singletons I was on the phone as soon as the second line turned pink on the tests! and with the girls (we did IVF -) as soon as I hung up the phone with the nurse who told me my HCG was 5,000!! I am a blabber mouth and was so excited each time -- with the girls we got so many "don't ya know what causes this" stupid comments (no one knew we did IVF - we just said you have no idea how much we know! I figure that unless they write the checks to pay my bills - it's none of their business.

CONGRATULATIONS !!!!

 

I wanted to wait a while with my singleton pregnancy as well but I didn't make it past a week. I believe I was about 6-7 weeks when we spilled the beans. That's a little longer than I made it will the first pregnancy where I was only 3 weeks when we spilled the beans.

 

We told everyone after the first ultrasound which was 8 weeks. I don't like keeping things a secret. I am happy and want to tell everyone.

 

When I got pg with the girls I wanted to wait until 12 or 13 weeks because I'd had 2 prior m/cs. My dr gave me an u/s at 8 wks to make sure the pregnancy was viable. I nearly fell off the table. I did see both heartbeats, though, and after that we told everyone. It was too much to not tell!

 

After MANY years of failed IVFs, etc., we used a surrogate to carry our twins.
Since she didn't live near us, and I clearly wasn't pregnant, I only told my immediate family at first.
At about 18-20 weeks we started to tell extended family and friends. We had too mnay losses over the years and I was waiting for something to go wrong and didn't want to have to tell everyone any bad news, so we waited until things looked good.