My parents made an unexpected visit to me and the hubby yesterday, and they're staying for the weekend. Hubby thinks this would be a great opportunity to tell my parents about my BFP. My parents have done so much for me, and I'd love to tell them in a cute way, if possible. How did y'all reveal it to your family?
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I just called my mom and told her I had to make a doctor's appointment.
Then, I called my dad at the hospital and told him. This next time I'll probably wait until our first apointment since we will be a nervous because of our previous loss. I'm going to try and make it cute because I did nothing that I wanted to do when I found out we were pregnant.
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We told my parents by sitting them down at the table and showing them some pictures on our computer. We were in the process of buying our new house and my dad was making us some furniture so I showed him some pictures of what I liked (dining room tables, tv stands, etc) and then near the end I put in some pictures of cribs and changing tables.
Told the in-laws by sitting around their dining room table. My husband didn't think he parents would be into the whole cutesy thing so we did it his way. I wish we would have done something cuter though. I made sure we did gender reveal in a more special way.
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Since they are staying with you what about putting some cinnamon rolls/pastries in the oven and ask your mom to remove the buns from the oven. Have a card ready to hand to them at breakfast with "Congrats Grandma & Grandpa..Baby X is due ______, this bun needs to cook a little longer"
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My parents and sister came over for a drink before we went to dinner for my Mom's birthday. I cut out circles to make tags to sit on top the bottom of the wine glasses/beer glasses. They said Aunt X, Grandma, Grandpa (not what my nephews really call them). They looked at them and my Mom was like aww but I could tell that she didn't get it. So I asked my sister what her's said, and she said. I just kind of looked at them and said well why do you think that they say that? Then my Mom got it. Then Dad and my sister caught on too. So while they didn't get it right away, DH and I still think that it went perfectly. We are still trying to think of how to tell his Dad and Step-Mom when we see them in a couple weeks. Probably something with the ultrasound since we should have a picture from it.
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We haven't told our parents yet, but I'm thinking of putting the ultrasound picture in a frame and giving it to the parents with something that says "Expected March 2013" or something like that.
My other thought that I might do (depending on how my appointment goes next week) is to take my parents out to dinner for their anniversary and on the card we give them, sign it "Love, Adira, Hubs, and Baby"
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I got my mom and MIL a "I love grandma" onesie and had them open it!
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We gave both our moms decorative talavera plates that said, "Casa de la Abuela" (grandmother's house). Now they have them up on the walls in their houses!
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@Alivoo01: UM HOW DA HECK DID I MISS YOUR BFP!? CONGRATSSSS!!!!!
we told my parents at our house when we were hosting my dad's 60th bday dinner. i made them t-shirts in korean that said world's greatest gma/gpa 2012.
they were holding it up for the rest of the fam to see, and thought that we'd made it for them since everyone knew we were TTC. it took them a few min, then my mom started screaming and crying and smiling. all caught on tape
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First time- DH blurted it out to my parents while we were having dinner during one of their visits to see us. Told FIL over the phone.
This time- sent my parents a video of DD in a big sister shirt (had her in DH's office chair facing away from the camera and then slowly swung the chair around so you could read her shirt). Told FIL over the phone again.
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Oh man, I was planning on waiting a bit to tell. But my Mom and I were shopping and I started to get a major bout of morning sickness. It was brutal. I had to tell her in the middle of the mall. It went something like this:
Me: "Mom, I think I need to sit down."
Mom: "Are you ok?"
Me: "Um, well, I didn't mean to tell you here in the mall, but I"m pregnant. Can we sit down?"
She started to cry! -
@Jumpingjacks: I think that's a really cool story!
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We had some family over for mother's day brunch and decided to take a picture of everyone to capture their reaction. Instead of getting everyone to say "cheese" my hubby said "ok- everyone say littlehunny is pregnant!" It worked for part of the family, but his side was already saying cheese so loud they didn't hear until after the picture was done!
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I called and told my mom and told her to tell my dad because I thought he would be mad....I was only engaged and not married yet! They were both ecstatic!
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@autumnlove: hahaha! I'm glad your dad didn't get mad at you!!
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We just told them! We told them early (4.5 weeks) even though my MC history was bad because we needed their support. We wanted them to be cautiously optimistic
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Both times we just called and let them know
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@jessiejo17: Great idea! Thanks!!
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I found out I was pregnant right around Mother's day, so we got each mother a "grandmother" card from our baby.
Then, I called my dad at the hospital and told him. This next time I'll probably wait until our first apointment since we will be a nervous because of our previous loss. I'm going to try and make it cute because I did nothing that I wanted to do when I found out we were pregnant.
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