How and when did you announce your pregnancy?

Told my immediate family early on due to HG & being in and out of hospital with both, told other family and close friends around 12wks+, everyone else found out once they arrived 😂 xx

I would be inclined to go with your husband’s suggestions. There is a lot of stigma around keeping it quiet until 12 weeks but if the worst happened then I’m sure most people would not want to suffer in silence too which is what happens to a lot of people when they keep the pregnancy quiet for the first trimester xx

Hey! We were also scared of losing our baby (lots of miscarriages in our respective families), so we waited 20 weeks for our first and 21 weeks for our second (technically third, as we lost our second at 5 weeks..). Though I have to say both our families were outraged that we shared the news so late 🙈
So try to see what's best with your family: are they supportive? If so you can tell it early! Are they putting stress on you? Tell them as late as you can!!! 😂
Pro tip: if your family is toxic-ish or too involved (without giving you actual help), give them a due date/estimate 1 or 2 weeks after the real due date... My mother in law started harassing us at 38 weeks (calling every day, sometimes multiple times a day) with my first (who arrived 12 days late!!!), we were very glad we gave an estimate and not a date the second time...

We found out the day before I was due to fly out with my girlfriends for a girls holiday which was planned to be absolute carnage so I had to tell my friends the next morning at the airport 😆 … we then told my partner’s parents the following weekend as we were there celebrating Father’s Day (it was sooo hard for my partner to even wait the week for me to return from holiday to tell them!). We found out super early (I hadn’t even missed a period yet - I was due on the day before we tested but my partner picked up on unusual things I’d been saying about intense cravings and my boobs being really sore for an extended period). We didn’t tell anyone else until after the 12 week scan at which point we slowly told close family and friends. My partner was also eager to shout it from the rooftops but I was very high risk so I had to rein him in a bit 😅 - I didn’t tell work until after my 20 week scan (simply because I had really negative appointments up until then and it didn’t quite feel real)

Im not sure if I have advice but I will share what we did and see if it gives you any ideas. My wife and I were secretly trying to get pregnant for just over 2 years. We kept it to ourselves as the process was a lot of held hopes and deep disappointments and we didnt want to have to keep people uo to date constantly and feel pity. Once it did work and we were pregnant we told immediate family (parents and siblings) and swore them to secrecy. Only after we passed the 1st trimester did we tell anyone else and we didnt make any big announcement mostly we just told some close friends and let our mothers off their leashes. Awkwardly some family found out when they got our baby shower invitation. I even did a 10 years later post on fb the other day and had people say they didnt know! So we aren't the type for a big announcement but we've enjoyed our pregnancy none the less.

With our first we announced to my in laws at 6 weeks, my fiancé was way too excited to tell his dad lol. We waited til 12 weeks to announce to my parents as I wanted to have a scan and make sure everything is okay before they found out.

Currently pregnant with our second after a chemical pregnancy and it’s been nerve wracking to say the least. We had a private early scan at 9 weeks to make sure things were progressing smoothly and we announced at 10 weeks when we met up with both families in one place. The timing of everyone together was too good to miss, I figured there’s not much difference in 2 weeks. At some point you just accept what will be will be.