To tell someone you're pregnant? And how do/did you tell your parents?
One of my employees, "Lindsey", came to me and said that her sister in law just called to tell her that she's pregnant, making her an aunt for the first time. I told Lindsey how cool that was, and how happy I was for her and her brother and sister in law. I asked how far along she was.
"She's three weeks" was the response..
Uh. I asked how she knew after three weeks that she was pregnant. She told me she asked the same thing. Apparently, her sister in law is "very regular and was supposed to get it the other day", so she took a test and it came up positive.
All that stuff aside, don't people usually wait until they're pretty well into the first trimester to tell people? Kind of saves on the ol' yeah, it was a false positive or worse, a miscarriage convo until that thing's really taken root. What's OT's take on when it's cool to tell family members that you're knocked up?
As a sidebar, I asked Lindsey if they had already told her parents and she said that they hadn't. I wondered alound how they were going to go about doing it and Lindsey said she didn't ask, but said that they were going to have dinner together tonight so she'll have that info tomorrow. I recalled that we told my parents they were going to be grandparents by giving them a wrapped up book on "the best thing about being a grandparent" or something like that for our son and exchanged tearful hugs in their living room. I think for #2 we told them over the phone that "Mrs. P was knocked up again".
How did you tell your parents that you/your sig other was pregnant?
One of my employees, "Lindsey", came to me and said that her sister in law just called to tell her that she's pregnant, making her an aunt for the first time. I told Lindsey how cool that was, and how happy I was for her and her brother and sister in law. I asked how far along she was.
"She's three weeks" was the response..
Uh. I asked how she knew after three weeks that she was pregnant. She told me she asked the same thing. Apparently, her sister in law is "very regular and was supposed to get it the other day", so she took a test and it came up positive.
All that stuff aside, don't people usually wait until they're pretty well into the first trimester to tell people? Kind of saves on the ol' yeah, it was a false positive or worse, a miscarriage convo until that thing's really taken root. What's OT's take on when it's cool to tell family members that you're knocked up?
As a sidebar, I asked Lindsey if they had already told her parents and she said that they hadn't. I wondered alound how they were going to go about doing it and Lindsey said she didn't ask, but said that they were going to have dinner together tonight so she'll have that info tomorrow. I recalled that we told my parents they were going to be grandparents by giving them a wrapped up book on "the best thing about being a grandparent" or something like that for our son and exchanged tearful hugs in their living room. I think for #2 we told them over the phone that "Mrs. P was knocked up again".
How did you tell your parents that you/your sig other was pregnant?
