I had little choice but to volunteer the information at 6 weeks. By then my HG had set in fiercely. If I didn't tell the older ones, they would have worked it out themselves. Probably not been happy about having to work it out themselves. They arent known for silence or tact and one of my younger sisters found out when CJ blurted out "So have you told them you are pregnant yet?" at christmas.
It really depends on the child as to how they go with the news. Angie wants it to be a sister (she doesnt even talk to the one she has ), but Harry is SO thrilled. He gives the bump cuddles and tries shoving his cup through my belly button to give the baby "mookies". But he loves babies. One of his favourite movies is Ice Age, and he calls it the "baby movie". Maybe that helped some - and it might help you to warm them up to babies first.
I waited til after the 12 week scan. With a history or mc and two very sensitive girls, i just wanted to be sure everything was ok. And i knew it would be hard for them to keep it quiet, so we waited til we were comfortable with everyone knowing. They were 10 and 8 at the time.
We waited until the 20w scan and showed DD the ultrasound dvd - she thought it was a monkey She is impatient so any earlier would have been too long for her to wait.
Idid the mistake of telling the boys to early when pg with the twins....a week later I lost them
But with Mateauz we waited until 12 weeks. its to hard to know a 'right' time babe..go with your gutt...maybe you could tell them that you need to get a bigger home cause their baby brother is on the way
DD is still too young to really understand but we tell her all the time that 'Mummy's got a bubba in her belly' and ask her if she wants to cuddle bubba, give bubba a kiss, etc.
Now she thinks *everybody* has a bubba in their belly (and it's gotten worse since we told her our cat is also pregnant, hey, if they cat has bubbas in there then so does EVERYBODY!)... it's so cute though.
We waited until 12 weeks to tell everybody this time around because we lost one at around 6 weeks when DD was three or four months old, so we didn't want to get everybody's hopes up.
Well I told the kids... violet and Bonnie didn't care, Emily is really excited and thinks its a brother cause it will have a doodle (mind you I didn't ask)!!LOL...
), but Harry is SO thrilled. He gives the bump cuddles and tries shoving his cup through my belly button to give the baby "mookies". But he loves babies. One of his favourite movies is Ice Age, and he calls it the "baby movie". Maybe that helped some - and it might help you to warm them up to babies first.
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She is impatient so any earlier would have been too long for her to wait.
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