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Nah. I kind of had an epiphany about announcing early after my cousin had an early miscarriage. She didn't announce the pregnancy but shared her miscarriage and asked for prayers/support. Since then she's shared her infertility struggles. I like that she does. I hate that she would have to suffer in silence. So if anyone wants to share their pregnancy early, that's fine with me. That way they don't feel like they have to celebrate their baby secretly at first or god forbid, suffer a loss in silence.

I'm debating on sharing my second pregnancy early whenever it happens. My FB is strictly close friends and family only anyway.

Then again, it's better for some people healing wise to keep those things quiet. And that's perfectly fine! But for me, I would want my friends and family's support while grieving. I just imagine being very sad that I couldn't tell people I had lost a baby when they didn't even know that baby existed.

No, not really but I will say this: since having two miscarriages, I have more negative feelings about people announcing early. It's like I'm jealous that I could never be that carefree about early pregnancy again. A co-worker announced yesterday to the whole staff that she is 7 weeks pregnant (she is due on what would have been my due date if I hadn't miscarried last weekend) and I felt angry/envious that she is able to do that and not have to feel terrified like I do. Not my proudest admission, but there it is.

In general no, but I've been annoyed before when someone announced to me a few days after finding out.. and then proceeded to talk to me about her pregnancy every. single. day. for the next 9 months. I was so tired of hearing about it and wished she had waiting the usual 12 weeks or so to announce so I only would have had to hear about it for 6 months. This person annoys me in general though, it would be different with a friend or family member.

I have such mixed feelings about this!!! I am thankful to have never had a miscarriage; however, I am very sensitive to the fact that it could happen... I have had some rare (medically related), one off type things happen to me in my life. Although unrelated to pregnancy, these things diminish any possibility of me being carefree about pregnancy or anything else health/medical related.

All this to say I agree with @travellingbee: to an extent that I am jealous of someone who can just announce to the world she is 6-7 weeks pregnant and be so carefree about it, like nothing could ever happen. I am jealous that I can't go through life blissfully ignorant of all that can go wrong.

So right now, I am about 7 weeks pregnant, and we have told a few friends and that's it. It felt good to tell them, and I agree with the premise of needing support through potential miscarriage. I also agree with the premise that until baby is in your arms, there will still be pregnancy-related worries. So it also seems totally reasonable to live in the moment, celebrate today (with whomever you may want), and hope for the best.

So to summarize my thoughts:
I told some friends in confidence early, but acknowledged it was early and asked them to pray for all to go smoothly for me. It would not bother me if a friend told me in a similar manner.
It would irritate me if someone made an early, carefree announcement (like in the office or on facebook), but I think my thoughts about this are colored by my experience and stem from jealousy. I would be happy for them and wish them the best, but just be a little irritated/jealous inside.

@Ginabean3: I agree with you about just appearing with a baby in my arms!! In my perfect fantasy world, that would be possible! I kind of don't want to have a baby shower for that reason too - hate the attention, and want the baby in my arms.

No, I don't really mind. Most women are aware of the risk, so I assume they know what they're doing.

I don't care when people tell in person. Sometimes I'm shocked by immediate we-just-found-out announcements on FB, but I've only seen one of those.

My friend group is older and most people go the very-late-announcement route. Last time, I told just our parents right away in person. We told the rest of our immediate families at 12 weeks. Friends at 14 weeks and didn't make an announcement on FB till I was like 17 weeks or so and that's just because I would sometimes be tagged in pictures and I looked so pregnant, haha.

This time I am telling work sooner because I'm already showing and super sick. My two closest girl friends and our parents knew immediately. I will announce publicly after our first ultrasound.

@mrsjyw: completely agree! I feel like I get nervous for women who announce before the end of the first tri, though.

I couldn't care less. I love hearing pregnancy announcements, and people are free to share whenever they are comfortable with it! That being said, I personally won't announce publicly until after the first trimester, but I'll absolutely tell close friends and family pretty early on.

@autumnlove: OMG - what an awful thing to say!

I had announced by that time. But honestly I probably couldn't have hid it longer. I was already showing and people figured it out before I said anything.

It doesn't bother me. I'll be a little jealous no matter when the announcement is made.

@autumnlove: what a crummy thing to say!

I personally don't care when someone announces, to each their own.

@autumnlove: That is sad! If that person wanted to text that, they should have at least sent a private text!

i admit that i used to be surprised when people would announce before 12 weeks. but now it doesn't bother me, because if you announce early and there's a loss, people can support you (i mean, you could not announce and just tell people about the loss, but just saying support is there either way). i guess i would be surprised if someone threw a baby shower in the first trimester, but otherwise i'm okay now with an announcement at any time.

I am always a little surprised when people announce early but I think it is because if I had a loss I wouldn't want to have to share it with the whole world. I purposely only told my best friends and immediately family at first because that is who I would want to provide support.

No. I don't understand being annoyed by something that really has nothing to do with you. And I wouldn't assume that someone announcing early is naive or unaware of the possible risks. There's nothing wrong with celebrating the happy moments of your life, even if you don't yet know exactly how things are going to end up. Things in life could always take a bad turn - I could give specific examples but won't since I'm sure pretty much all of us have experienced awful pain at some point. But does not celebrating the happy moments make the bad moments easier? I don't think it does. Being annoyed by other's joy and hope seems...well, kind of catty, and like it's just going to bring you more unhappiness. I experienced a CP several years ago and I understand jealousy, but not to the extent of judging someone over what they put on FB when.

Unless it's a pee stick. I don't care how far along you are, I don't need a photo of something you peed on. Unless it's a really close mom friend sharing it with me personally.

If it's really early I would probably think "yikes that's risky" but I don't particularly care either way. Maybe a bit of that feeling of like "that's nice that they can be so carefree, they must have had an easy time so far."

The posting after peeing on a stick the same day bothers me, mainly because I wish I could be that carefree. Having had a missed m/c at 9 weeks, I was so nervous to announce the next time. My mind can't really comprehend telling everyone before the stick dries, but I always hope it turns out well for them. A Facebook friend wrote a post last week about it being her due date had she not miscarried and I think that was great because she got a lot of support. She never announced the pregnancy, though.

I'm 10.5 weeks and haven't announced publicly, but most people in my daily life (excluding work) already know. I'll probably announce in a week or two.