How to Tell Your Family You're Pregnant

So, you just found out you're having a baby. Now, it's time to let your family share the good news. Telling your family you're pregnant, like telling them you're getting married, can be simple or complicated. Here are a few easy steps to unveil your baby news.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Telephones
• Champagne

1. Consider how they're likely to react: Will they think you're too young? Too old? That you've finally arrived at your proper role in life?

2. Brace yourself for their responses, if need be.

3. Tell everyone at once: Announce the news at a family gathering with a toast.

4. Go the indirect route if you prefer: Mention you can't drink right now, and sushi's definitely not an option for dinner.

5. Use the phone call method, if you live long distance. Start with your closest family members and work out: your mom, his mom, then siblings. Get to close cousins last.

6. Tell everyone that of course you're taking care of yourself, when they ask. Explain what foods you've been craving, if any.

7. Sit back and wait until your growing belly tells the tale, if that's your style.

Tips & Warnings

• If you're plagued by morning sickness, wait for a time you're feeling OK so you can enjoy the moment.
• Make sure the people closest to you hear the news from you, not from someone else.
• Women didn't used to tell their news until the pregnancy was well-established, for fear of miscarriage. But if you want your family's support if there's a problem, consider telling them early on.

[ginkgo]

on 11/15/2008 Great ideas! With our first, we went to a fortune cookie website and ordered some that said, "You will soon be adding a new addition to the family." We gave them to our parents, aunts and uncles after dinner one evening. They each opened them up and read them. After the third person opened it up with the same message, someone yelled, "what a rip-off! They all say the same thing!" My hubby and I just watched and giggled for a couple of minutes. They were all clueless until we told them----which made it even funnier!!!

[jlc02]

on 10/5/2008 I'm not expecting yet, but we'll be trying soon. So of course I've been thinking of creative ways to tell our parents. With my parents, I am their youngest. So, I plan to bring over a dozen roses. 11 of them red, and one pink. With a card that says "11 red roses from your baby and 1 pink one from ours" :)

[jlc02]

on 10/5/2008 I'm not expecting yet, but we'll be trying soon. So of course I've been thinking of creative ways to tell our parents. With my parents, I am their youngest. So, I plan to bring over a dozen roses. 11 of them red, and one pink. With a card that says "11 red roses from your baby and 1 pink one from ours" :)

[kittiekitkat]

on 8/9/2008 My husband and I are still trying to concive, but as soon as i am, i want to send baby bottle pops to my family(we live in az, and most of all of our family lives in va) or if its around christmas im going to give them each a stocking or a bag with a baby bottle pop inside and count to 3 so they all open them at once. I can't wait to see my mom's reaction the most.

[random_riss]

on 5/30/2007 I was 18 when I fell pregnanet with my first baby. I rang my father & told him on his 40th birthday. "Happy Birthday Grandad" I said. He said thanks and carried on with the conversation. I thought he had missed it completely but he stopped and the pause was enough for me to know he had heard me. Because i was young i had no idea how he would react but he was great about it. The funny thing was he always told me never to make him a grandparent before he was 40... So he said thats what made it ok lol. If i had told him the day before he wouldn't of been impressed!