Keeping Pregnancy Quiet - The Hardest Struggle Known To Mankind
As soon as we found out my partner was pregnant we wanted to announce it to the world (not on Facebook though because I don't feel like old school friends need to know...)
We wanted to tell our friends, families, anyone we see regularly that would be excited for us. When you have exciting news, it's human nature to want to talk about it with other people who you know will be as happy as you.
The problem is, some people need to know and those people are not usually the ones you would like to tell first. My partner works as a carer for adults with mental heath issues and part of her training (which thankfully she's not had to use) was around restraining people. Some of the people she works with can be extremely physically aggressive so it's not an ideal job for a mum-to-be. A few of her colleagues have fallen pregnant recently and the company has been great with them and very accommodating so I was confident they would do the same for her. She told her manager very early, at around 8 weeks which I think was the right thing to do. It's just strange that now the news has made it around the hospital, there are a group of strangers that know she is with child when my close family don't (officially) yet know.
We had our parents over for lunch a few weeks ago and I suggested telling them then but my partner said no. She's not showing massively yet but you can definitely see she is "thickening up" so it won't be long before we can't hide it anyway. Whenever I see my parents I keep nearly slipping up and I am fairly certain they know. In fact, my Mum asked me if she was pregnant before we even knew that she was. She said she couldn't explain what it was about her but she felt like she was pregnant. Weird.
The plan is to tell family and friends in a few weeks but is it normal that a load of people at my partners work already know before these people? I feel like it makes the big announcement a bit phoney.
I just want the next few weeks to to be over so we can let everyone know and I can finally stop holding back on talk about baby stuff around them.
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We wanted to tell our friends, families, anyone we see regularly that would be excited for us. When you have exciting news, it's human nature to want to talk about it with other people who you know will be as happy as you.
The problem is, some people need to know and those people are not usually the ones you would like to tell first. My partner works as a carer for adults with mental heath issues and part of her training (which thankfully she's not had to use) was around restraining people. Some of the people she works with can be extremely physically aggressive so it's not an ideal job for a mum-to-be. A few of her colleagues have fallen pregnant recently and the company has been great with them and very accommodating so I was confident they would do the same for her. She told her manager very early, at around 8 weeks which I think was the right thing to do. It's just strange that now the news has made it around the hospital, there are a group of strangers that know she is with child when my close family don't (officially) yet know.
We had our parents over for lunch a few weeks ago and I suggested telling them then but my partner said no. She's not showing massively yet but you can definitely see she is "thickening up" so it won't be long before we can't hide it anyway. Whenever I see my parents I keep nearly slipping up and I am fairly certain they know. In fact, my Mum asked me if she was pregnant before we even knew that she was. She said she couldn't explain what it was about her but she felt like she was pregnant. Weird.
The plan is to tell family and friends in a few weeks but is it normal that a load of people at my partners work already know before these people? I feel like it makes the big announcement a bit phoney.
I just want the next few weeks to to be over so we can let everyone know and I can finally stop holding back on talk about baby stuff around them.
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