Announcing pregnancy’s 🩷🩵

I didn’t announce but I don’t think there is a right time! X

Just whenever you’re comfortable telling everyone 🥰

I think this is a personal preference kind of thing. Me and my husband told everyone since the moment we found out (I was about 4/5 weeks). Our way of thinking was that if anything bad was to happen, it wouldn’t be because we told everyone too soon and we would have had our family and friends support

With my first I announced around 25/30weeks roughly and my second I announced when baby was born

@Frayere I love this! Did you find it hard to keep a secret or did people know? Xxx

@Beatriz That’s true!! I think I’m going to wait for my 20 weeks scan on the 1st then maybe just put up a “life recently” photo dump haha xxxx

@Hanna we only told immediate family and a few close friends! It was hard to not post stuff on my stories sometimes, and be careful how I took a picture but aside from that it was quite easy!

We told family at 12 weeks and then 16 weeks to other people. Just did it whenever I felt comfortable with people knowing. Had complications in both my pregnancies so just waited for all the genetic testing, scans & monitoring to come back well. I started showing so quickly and it was in summer so I couldn’t hide my bump anymore! I’d say just do it when you feel it’s the right time for you 💗

We told family at 9 weeks with our first and right away with our 2nd. My mom had to baby sit my son for all my appointments, so we kind of had to. On socials and the rest of the family we told at 15 weeks with our first. We didn’t announce on socials for our 2nd, but told additional family around the 14ish week mark. Keeping it a secret on social media is kind of fun!

This is my first pregnancy, we are waiting to announce until 16 weeks.

I didn’t really “announce” I told my immediate family around 11 weeks after I had my first doctors apt then close friends/ coworkers I told as it came/ as I was showing more and it was kinda obvious But on social media I never put any official announcement just a welcome when baby is born 🥹

Am going hide it as long as I can but am hoping to tell people once baby both

Born

@Amanda I’m 18 weeks Friday, I’m really undecided xxxx

I’m pregnant with baby #2. I’m 31 weeks and haven’t quite announced my pregnancy besides close family and friends but to the families that are far on social media, not yet.

Announce to family and close friends. I’ll announce on social on my birthday (I’ll be 36 weeks) but don’t plan to post any photos of my baby’s face online, my partner and I agreed.

For my first I waited until 3 months and my second I waited until I was 5 months along

I tried to keep it to myself for as long as I can cuz I don’t think pregnancy announcements are necessary! I didn’t announce it until I started showing & couldn’t really “keep” it a “secret” anymore. we don’t live near family so they don’t find things out unless we choose to let it be known & it’s usually very public on social media, our announcements are never personal. Bt I found out I pregnant Christmas Day 2020; we didn’t announce it until mothers day 2021 in May! I was abt 6months🤰🏾 my son was due on Labor Day so he was born in sept. I’m glad I waited for as long as I did. Wish I could have gone my whole pregnancy without telling anyone bt may5th is my wedding Anniversary so I was posting pictures of our annniversary trip at the beach & trying to hide my belly bt at 6months & it was almost impossible and some ppl could sorta tell so they were asking so I finally decided to announce it with a post a few weeks after that on Mother’s Day!

I only announced to close family and friends and church community when I was about 6 months pregnant and then my social media friends found out a month or so after I gave birth on mothers days since my son was born in April

Announced with my son at 20 weeks (as I previously had a miscarriage and was worried when to tell people) I’m currently 18 weeks pregnant and apart from family and a couple of friends I’m not “announcing it” as such. No desire to put anything online, I’m quite content enjoying this pregnancy bubble for just us and will announce when she’s here. There is definitely no right or wrong time, just when you feel ready!

First - 12 weeks Second- 16 weeks

We told my family and my boyfriends mum at around 12 weeks after the first scan and everyone else found out at 20 weeks

@Hanna love that!!!

I did ivf, so it was hard not to tell family right away. Either it worked or we would be going back to appointments for monitoring 😂 so family found out at literally 4 weeks. I told close friends around 12 weeks and made a public announcement after the 20 week scan. There is never is right or wrong time! I definitely understand the hesitancy - it is up to you and you shouldn’t feel pressured one way or another

First time at 9 weeks, I think I’ll wait till after the 1st trimester when we have second

I was SO excited with our first I told everyone at 8 weeks after we got our first scan. we’re pregnant with our second now and I plan on announcing soon I feel like it’s exciting!

Told family at 12 weeks but didn’t post on social media/ announce at work etc until after the 20 week scan when we knew baby was all okay etc x

We lost our first baby so never did announce our rainbow as the anxiety was too much! Congratulations, once you’ve got a bump it’ll become very obvious!xx

@Chantelle this is exactly us now!! I’m too nervous and don’t want to “jinx” it xxxxx

I was 5 weeks. Couldn't hold it in, had to tell people.

We told my mum and my partners parents before first scan and everyone else after first scan :) I suffered with HG so wasn’t something I would have been able to hide with either parents anyway.

We told close family early on 7/8 weeks because i was so unwell and it was christmas time. I regret that so much because within hours everyone knew🥲 if and when we have a second i will wait as long as possible to tell them and even longer to announce x

I’m 20 weeks pregnant I told immediate family at 7 weeks and the rest of family and close friends at 12 weeks following my scan. I personally won’t be doing any social media posts etc until baby is here (if I want to when the time comes and don’t feel that they are really necessary and feel so much is posted out there now). Xxx

Whenever you feel ready is best, even if you just tell the closest people to you for now and then when you’re more comfortable tell others. At the end of the day you don’t need to tell anyone if you didn’t want to xx

If you don't want to tell people you could get oversized jumpers with "it's just water weight" or "mind your business" or "it's rude to ask a woman if she's pregnant" printed on it 😆 Something a little fun🤷🏾‍♀️ Or you could wait until you've had your baby. And then tell people in person you're pregnant. So you get the whole congratulations and celebrations. And then have your partner knock on the door with your baby so you can show them off, like surprise! Gotcha 🤭😁 If you want to tell people but your worried. Bare in mind it can be nice to have family and friend around you for support. Im in my second pregnancy and I'm not telling anyone. I like a peaceful pregnancy and they'll all fuss🤭. I think life is a beautiful thing and should be celebrated if you do that by deciding to tell people or keep it close to just you or you and your partner either way is beautiful. Your baby is loved. Do what you feel is right for you. CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉 All the best to you and your baby 😁😁🫂

We didn’t announce - similar to you we lost our first and so we didn’t announce when this little one came along, we did tell both sets of parents immediately because we knew they would want to support us if the second pregnancy went the same way as the first. A lot of people found out when we announced his birth. Actually quite liked the surprise when we saw people and they realised I was pregnant 😂 there were points during the pregnancy I still got very paranoid over, fear of another loss… so I was glad that very few people knew before he was here. Meant I didn’t have loads of people pestering and asking about when baby was due etc too which was lovely!