1. No I never planned to wait until 12 weeks to tell the immediate family. I always thought I would tell them straight away.

2. The day we got the blood test results back - we went and visited all our immediate family to tell them the news.

Now friends are another story. Once again I always thought I would tell them straight away - but we ended up waiting until about 11/12 weeks to tell close friends and other family members. It was Christmas so it worked out nicely. Work colleagues and acquaintances were told around 14 weeks (after the NT scan).