Too Early??

I just think the old rule of not telling people until after the first trimester is the dumbest thing in the whole wide world!! The moment my OB confirmed what the at home pregnancy test had already told me, I told everyone. If anything tragic was to happen and I was to lose the baby, I would like people to know why I am an upset sensitive emotional mess!!!!

S.,
Congrats! Honestly if this is all you have to worry about...your life is totally blessed!! Just enjoy being happy. Don't worry about people knowing...they will know eventually anyway. And God forbid if something does happen, you have a support system there for you.

Blessings.
M.

we told everyone we knew that we were expecting on the day we found out. and now we have a wonderful, perfectly healthy 18 month old little girl. I've heard that telling people or buying stuff before the beginning of the 2nd trimester was bad luck, but that's just an old wive's tale. i just recently had a miscarriage too, which is awful, but it had nothing to do with how many people I had told. My ob/gyn said that pregnancies that miscarry are predestined to do so from the beginning because something goes wrong during conception. I'm glad I had told people, and even though it was hard to tell people we lost the baby, I had lots of friends and loved ones there to comfort me afterward. So go ahead and tell whom ever you want so they can help you celebrate. Take care and God bless. hope everything goes well for you.

My husband and I told pretty much everyone we knew by the time we were 6 weeks with both pregnancies. My thinking is that if something bad is going to happen, it will happen no matter if we told everyone or no one. If something bad did happen, I would just have a bigger support group.

Good luck. I'm sure all will be well! :)

I waited with both of mine until I was right around 12 weeks. People we mad that we did not tell them earlier but everyone in my family has miscarraiges so I did not want to jinks it. I think it has to be what you feel is comfortable. I had a friend that waited until she was showing to start telling people for both pregancies. She was 6 months at both points. So it truly is up to your comfort level.

Congrats on your news! When I found out I was pregnant, I was so scared and excited that I couldn't NOT tell anyone. My plan was to tell just my 2 closest friends until I found out for sure but, by the end of the day, everyone in the world seemed to know. I don't think it's too early. Some people wait, some don't. As long as you do what you want, that is all that matters. Best of Luck :)

I did the same thing every time I found out I was pregnant. I would call everyone that very day. Luckily, I carried all three pregnancies to term. Although, I once thought the test was positive and told a bunch of people I was pregnant. I had to go back and untell them. No biggie.

Telling people does not physiologically do anything to the body to alter the pregnancy.

If you tell people or don't tell people, the embryo/fetus has a plan of it's own and will do whatever it is naturally programmed to do.

This is one of the many silly wives' tales regarding pregnancy.

You are right that at 6 weeks there are possibilities that it is still early and the pregnancy may not be viable. But it won't be because you told Aunt Sue.

Did you have any problems w/any other pregnancies? If not I wouldn't be worried. I have 3 kids and Iwas so excited I told everyone as soon as I knew.

Congratulations!

S.