When to tell the parents?

I had this dilemma over Christmas. Found out the weekend before Christmas I was pregnant and initially we were going to keep it from everyone, but my MIL was supposed to be booking a family holiday to America at the end of July - and flying transatlantic 8 months pregnant probably isn’t the best. So we told the whole family at Christmas as we didn’t want to leave anyone out. My mum and my family were super excited but my MIL actually went really quiet and hasn’t spoken about it since. It’s put me in a whole anxiety spiral and I actually wish we left it a bit longer to tell them. I’m not sure if she’s trying to suppress the excitement until 12 weeks as we’ve had a miscarriage before In terms of her controlling-ness, your mum is just going to be so excited and of course she’s going to want to help her own baby through this. Ask her for advice when you want it, but make sure to tell her you’re excited to figure some of this out on your own/with partner etc.

The plus side of telling her early is that she’ll be in the know when you might need some help with nausea/sickness symptoms in the first trimester!

My first baby we told family straight away and friends after a private 7 week scan. This time we are telling family after the 12 week scan and no one else unless we see them face to face... Theres pros and cons to both ways of doing it but i will admit im excited to have less opinions this time xx

@Claire great advice thank you! I think I’ll leave it a day or two just let ourselves let it sink in! But I’m very excited to tell them! And well they live 3 hours away! So they can’t just pop in or anything it’ll be a phone call every day hahaha! But that’s better than not at all! ❤️ MIL for me will be a whole different bucket of laughs. She’s very strictly religious and I couldn’t be more the opposite! So that’ll be another battle xx

@India yeah I think I’ll leave it a few days and then re evaluate how I feel! Thanks for replying I really appreciate your opinion!! Xx