When to announce 🤷‍♀️

Do you have to announce immediately after having your scan? Personally I’d wait until baby is a couple of weeks old.

I’d say announce it a few days after she’s given birth. By then, you will have had your scan and all clear as well, and wouldn’t need to rush the announcement. P.s. Congratulations on your pregnancy!

Maybe speak to her first in private, so she understands that you don’t want to take the moment away from her but not sure of the best way to do things. She would probably appreciate that

Oh that’s difficult! I told family and friends around 10 weeks but it sounds like that is right around the time your niece or nephew being born. I would think before but hard to decide

Would you be able to announce to just family early? And then announce on social media maybe a couple weeks after baby is born? It’s so difficult I don’t get on with my SIL either and mine would cause an issue if we announced something around the same time as their news, makes it so awkward. With our pregnancy we told a couple of our closest friends and family at about 9 weeks! And then waited till after our 12 week scan to tell other friends and family and then didn’t post on social media until about 22 weeeks pregnant x

@Ashleigh it’s the exact same with us, she likes to be centre of the attention 24/7, whereas I’m the complete opposite, we want to wait until the 12 weeks scan to make sure everything’s alright as we had a few complications with the first, but don’t want to wait too late as everyone’s going to see that I’m getting bigger, and we would like to tell everyone rather then them just guess bc I’m getting bigger 😂😂

@Elle I totally understand that! Yep my SIL is the exact same! It causes issues all the time! If she’s anything like my SIL then I would just tell them when feels right for you. No matter what we do my SIL will find fault or a way to upset us, so now I just do what I want and try to ignore her. Mine caused issues about us being pregnant when we announced to them, even though they already have children of their own and she knew we’d been trying for a while as we had had losses! And she still wasn’t happy for us😅 so since then I’ve just done what’s best for us! Deep down you know you aren’t doing it to take attention away from her! It’s just the timing that is trickiest! Plus just because she has a due date doesn’t mean baby is born then! It could be born early or 2 weeks later so could be weeks before or after your 12 week scan too! Hope all goes well for your pregnancy xx

@Ashleigh yes I can relate, she made such a big deal about us being pregnant with our first and questioning if we were ready 🙄 She makes everything into a competition and is extremely jealous as we are younger than her yet, own our own house, have a baby and got engaged first 🫤 none of which were anything to do with her 🙄 xxx

@Elle could’ve written that myself! Sounds exactly like my SIL 😂 it’s hard work! Xx

If it was me personally, I wouldn’t feel the need to announce at 12 weeks exactly, just do it whenever you want, however in your case if you are worrying about upsetting somebody, why not give it a few more weeks after scan..why not wait until September👍🏽

I’d wait a couple of weeks to announce as suggested by others x

Why does it have to be taking anything away? Idk why people and families are like that. It doesn't dim her light to announce your pregnancy, unless you purposefully did it because she was. My sister is like that. I don't understand the need for competition...honestly you're sisters and should be happy for each other. I'd announce it because YOU want to not because you may take away something from your sister.

@Jen I understand and completely agree, if it was the other way round I wouldn’t be bothered by her announcing her pregnancy. However she isn’t like me and tbh I don’t like confrontation so I’d rather just do the easiest thing, hence me getting advice !