What have you told people who guessed you were pregnant, before 12 weeks?

[PumpkinZulu]

BAL, with my first few pregnancies, I m/c early on. So with DD, I was so excited and overjoyed, DH and I decided to share her pregnancy straight away, because even if she couldn't stay, we wanted people to know she was loved and important, and we wanted the support if things went either way.

With this pregnancy, I don't really have any intention of announcing any time soon, and I'll be 12 weeks tomorrow. This pregnancy was wry unplanned, and honestly, in those early days, fairly unwanted Although we're becoming excited and happy about it now, we still have freak out moments and we're still getting there. So telling other people...we don't want to have to fake an emotion we may not be feeling at one very moment. Also, our families will not be very accepting (we hope they will be, but it's not likely) because of DD's age. We would never have actively chosen a pregnancy at this time; DH is still a student, working full time hours in a casual (aka unstable) position, I'm a SAHM...we're working on our marriage after a rough year etc. So for us, not sharing our pregnancy until later is really important in bonding with this baby and accepting our new life. I hope that makes sense.

[Lolpigs]

BAL, with my first few pregnancies, I m/c early on. So with DD, I was so excited and overjoyed, DH and I decided to share her pregnancy straight away, because even if she couldn't stay, we wanted people to know she was loved and important, and we wanted the support if things went either way.

With this pregnancy, I don't really have any intention of announcing any time soon, and I'll be 12 weeks tomorrow. This pregnancy was wry unplanned, and honestly, in those early days, fairly unwanted Although we're becoming excited and happy about it now, we still have freak out moments and we're still getting there. So telling other people...we don't want to have to fake an emotion we may not be feeling at one very moment. Also, our families will not be very accepting (we hope they will be, but it's not likely) because of DD's age. We would never have actively chosen a pregnancy at this time; DH is still a student, working full time hours in a casual (aka unstable) position, I'm a SAHM...we're working on our marriage after a rough year etc. So for us, not sharing our pregnancy until later is really important in bonding with this baby and accepting our new life. I hope that makes sense.

Tell them to go suck a lemon PZ, I'll have the same thing from my family and I've already decided after someone nice on BB told me its your family your decision. I'll have the same issue, DD is only 7mths old atm so will be not even 2 when this baby arrives.

[beansbeans!]

BAL, We never hid pregnancies, we more so kept it to ourselves until we got used to the idea. With DD1 she was a major surprise and we took a little bit of time to get our head round the idea of being parents when being parents was never on the cards for us (Dh and I started our relationship o with both of us never wanting children, or even marriage, but now we have both and wouldnt want it any other way). With DD2 we were essentially homeless in that we were moving towns, had given notice on our current house and whilst moing out the house the real estate had said we could have changed and we were left staying at DH's parents house.
DD3 on the other hand, I was in denial for a long time beore I took the hpt. People were telling me that I was complaining about pregnancy symptoms, and I reused to believe so would blow it of.

So for us it wasnt about hiding the pregnancies, but more so giving ourselves the time to celebrate privately, get our heads round the idea of little munchkins running around, and working out the perfect way to tell people.