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M + K
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Posted : Oct 24, 2008 9:18:40 AM
Subject : UPDATE How to break the news !!

I have got to tell someone before i burst !
So tonight we are going to tell my Mum and Dad.
I dont want to say all gather round iv got an announcment , coz i think they might guess straight off. so how about this,
"Have you guys got your diarys for next yr yet ? " then reply
"well we have got a date for it, 29th june, its the date your first grandchild id due! "
Or shall i just run in wearing dungerees shouting
"im knocked up whoooooo" !!!
How did you all break the news ?

[Modified by: m&k on 24 October 2008 09:21:38 ]


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brandollarz

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Posted : Oct 24, 2008 11:23:12 AM

lol - mine were not planned and other situations were not great so i was very scared to tell my mum. Love the Diary Idea though! thats great! let me know how you tell em - i get all excited about these things!!!!!!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS btw XXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Posted : Oct 24, 2008 11:27:13 AM

Haha thanks Elaine,
My husband says im just stringing it out and should just say it as it is but i want it to be remembered LOL!

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Posted : Oct 24, 2008 12:13:50 PM

awww i think it would be lovely to give them a little card with a scan picture in. congratulations.xxx

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Posted : Oct 24, 2008 1:20:57 PM

I like the diary idea. We handed over our scan pictures and let them have a look and for it to click with the person.

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Posted : Oct 24, 2008 3:57:04 PM

OMG i cant wait till the scan lol. i have no idea how to keep a secret like this, that long, plus i need to know how both mums were during there pregnancies, im scared to death of morning sickness

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Posted : Oct 24, 2008 4:21:08 PM

I wrapped up a tiny pair of booties and wrote a label that said 'to Granny and Grandpa' Their faces were priceless!!!
xx

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M + K

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Posted : Oct 24, 2008 4:55:35 PM

that is really sweet,
i bet their faces were a picture !!
Surprised

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Posted : Oct 25, 2008 12:12:14 AM

Did it, told them !
Used the diary thing, it was ace haha i loved there faces !
Big fat smiles all over, im feeling abit more "real" about it too now they know.
Best thing was, my sister came in after i had told them, and she was telling jokes and i sed oh iv got a good one and just said im having a baby her face was hilarious !

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Posted : Oct 26, 2008 10:46:08 AM

Oh thats fantastic - haha - I bet that was great! What did they say? Tell me to sod off if im being too nosey! WhateeeEver!

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Posted : Oct 26, 2008 7:34:54 PM

Your not nosey at all lol
Well my mum just burst out crying and my dad said "really,blimey, nice one, i mean great news congratulations, brilliant"
lol, stunned wasnt in it haha

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Posted : Oct 28, 2008 12:08:07 PM

Ah, that's lovely. I often think about how I will break the news when we get our BFP. I'll probably be so excited i'll just blurt it out but i'd love to do something like the scan pic or the little booties idea! Oooh I just can't wait until that day comes! xxx

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Posted : Oct 28, 2008 9:43:51 PM

I actually laughed out loud reading your dungarees idea, my husband gave me a very strange look!

I was thinking about this, not knocked up yet lol, but I am really nervous about telling my Mum. She keeps telling me I am not allowed to have kids yet cuz she is too young to be a grandma! I am 23 she is 44!

Its a good job I live 300 miles away from her I don't think I would be able to keep it from her for more than a second if I saw her all the time!

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Posted : Dec 05, 2008 9:56:41 PM

I wrote my parents a Christmas card, then on Christmas day when we'd finished opening the pressies, I said 'there's one more for you both' and gave it to them. Inside I wrote 'To Granny & Grandad, Happy Christmas, Love from your grandaughter/son due 9th August 2008'. Mum took a while to realise what it was about, then hardly said anything - I was so scared she was going to tell me off or someting!! (I'm 27 btw lol) She said afterwards that she hadn't read it properly at first and thought it was from my hubby's son (with ex-wife)

Congrats on your news m&k!

Corinna x

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Posted : Dec 08, 2008 4:31:27 PM

Ah bless thats so sweet, i can imagine it !!
I know wot u mean about getting told off, i was scared of telling my Dad, coz even though we r married and have lived together years i was basically telling him id had S.E.X !!
oopps lol

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Posted : Dec 08, 2008 9:39:47 PM

we did a simular thing with the xmas cards. Last year I was 13 weeks on xmas day so we put a scan pic inside 4 cards. One to my mum and dad, one to my ohs mum and dad and then our grandparents too. We wrote inside meet babywoollven no3. due 1st July 08. Was lovely to announce it on xmas day. No surprise this year tho, lol! x x x

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Posted : Dec 15, 2008 3:49:53 PM

i rang my mum up to tell her as soon as it was confirmed...i just had to tell someone and her response was "about bloody time i never thought it was going to happen" thanks mum :) (im only 32)

she didnt know that id had issues with that area that made it hard to concieve. me and oh wasnt using anything as we thought itd be pretty much impossible, but i guess over time things heal :)

we had to wait 2 weeks to tell his dad tho as he was on holiday, id organised a family meal as my oh was turning 40 so we took a bottle of champagne with us and told his dad we have some good news and when we told him he cried, it was my 2nd meeting with him so i was over the moon that he was so happy.
hes 80 next year and has 4 boys that are 36+ and none of them have managed to have a girlfriend in the last 10 years apart from me that is. so i think hed given up on ever becoming a grandad, hes sooo excited about it and keeps looking at my bump with such pride its great.

i told my dad in his fathers day card, i wrote it from manda, fraser and fred/a
he calls all unborn babies fred or freda depending on the sex so it was easy to work out what to write for him...his response was a chuckle and an i like it with a grin on his face.

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Posted : Dec 17, 2008 3:42:37 PM

Hi all
Have stumbled here from TTC forum. After reading all your posts I cannot wait to tell everyone when I finally do get my BFP.
M&K - am loving diary idea!!!!! I can't keep it from my mum but thinking for friends to gather all for dinner or something then just casually chuck scan pics on table to see what they say.
God, not even PG yet and already planning!
xxx

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Posted : Dec 30, 2008 7:44:33 PM

when i got pg i told my husband by dressing a teddy in an i love my daddy baby grow i'd been out to buy. sadly i started to bleed so telling my mum i was miscarrying was the first anyone else knew about it.

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