My parents: I had to drop out of my cousin's hen party and didn't want to announce my pregnancy, so I said I'd had a blood test that had revealed a hormone imbalance and my GP arranged for me to have a scan next week, I'd know more then. My mum started nagging for what it was, so I told her my prolactin was elevated, but only slightly, at five hundred and something; I've seen prolactin levels a hundred times my amount with my work. I am not ill, I'm fine, just a slight imbalance and I have to be a bit careful with myself right now. It is quite normal, I'm not worried, and it will correct itself in time. She then read up on prolactinomas on the internet and was so happy when I said it was a baby not a brain tumour post-scan. This is a great tactic if your parents may be unhappy about being grandparents and one I wish I hadn't had to use!
My in-laws, we went round for a visit and DH talked about everything under the sun (films, TV, what was happening at the weekend...) before saying, 40 minutes later, "oh, by the way, Ryn's pregnant." It would have been longer if he and his dad weren't going to fix the computer in the study two seconds later. But it did give MiL a chance to talk baby with me... not that she ever needed the excuse!
I bought baby photo frames and then put inside a card that read reserved for your grandchild due August 2007. We wrapped them and gave them as Christmas presents.
Parents thought it was great and now have the frames on display. Its a nice talking point for parents when they have visitors.
When we were telling the girls about Riley (they were 14 and 6) we said we have a video to show you and played our 8 week ultrasound vid. Jess said "is that what I think it is?" and we said yes its a baby, its your baby brother or sister and they were both very excited. You could adapt this to parents, if you have an 8 week ultrasound anyway!
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