Who all did you tell personally that you were pregnant?

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Whether it be in person or over the phone/text. Who all did you personally tell before announcing on social media for everyone else to find out?
My husband and I were talking about this last night. Two of his siblings have had babies since we have been together, and neither of them told us. We found out from either their mom or Facebook. 
What really brought this conversation up though, were his two best friends. One of them, and his girlfriend, have had two kids in the last 2-3 years. He told my husband about the first one, because they were freaking out. I saw on Facebook that she was pregnant with the second one and had to tell my husband, he didn't already know. Then they don't even invite us to their kids' birthday parties. We might get an invite the day before, but it seems like an afterthought, or they don't invite us at all and say they forgot. My husband and him and have been best friends since middle school. All four of us went to high school together, and started dating around the same time. What really gets me though, is they asked us if we would take their kids if something were to happen to them. So they want us to possibly become their guardians one day, but don't really include us in their kids lives. 
My husband's other best friend, since they were little, also went to high school with us and started dating his wife around the same time. So the 6 of us were pretty close. Well he and his wife announced her pregnancy on Facebook last month, not telling my husband before doing so. My husband said he keeps wanting to text his friend and ask about how his wife is doing, but almost doesn't feel like it's his place because they didn't even tell him she was pregnant. 
I'm just wondering if this is normal. Do people not tell close friends and family about their pregnancy anymore before posting to social media? I told my husband that once I get pregnant, I plan on telling everyone who is important to us before social media. I want to make a point to tell all our close family, our friends, and his coworkers he's close with.
I don't know. What are your thoughts on this?

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We are 4 weeks, 4 days, and my hubby can’t keep a secret.  He tells everyone he sees 🤣🤣🤣. Guess we’re just going with it.

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I told close family and friends as soon as I found out. I do find that very odd that they don’t invite you to their family events tho considering they want you to be guardians ? People are strange AF!!

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I told 2 of my close friends as soon as I found out, sending them a Snapchat of the 3 positive pregnancy tests lol. I wanted to wait for everyone else, to tell my family and other friends around 12 weeks and wouldn’t post it on social media until we did maternity pictures. However my SO told his family and my family as well as some of his close friends probably a week after we found out, and it made me nervous but I figured they’d find out eventually so why not. I ended up losing the pregnancy at 9 weeks and it made it a lot worse when people knew about it. People I didn’t even tell about my pregnancy (my family talks, a lot) were calling me, texting me, sending letters, stopping me in person, and honestly I don’t think they know what to say in that situation. I don’t know what there is to say so I appreciate the people who knew and didn’t say anything. But so many people told me “it wasn’t meant to be” “it wasn’t your time” “it wasn’t even a baby yet, I don’t get why it’s such a big deal” “at least you won’t lose your figure” and so much more. The grief was bad enough without people knowing, it hurt so much worse every time someone else brought it up

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Parents
Grandparents 
Siblings
Aunts&Uncles
Then they share with everyone. 
We don’t have social media so we just share by word of mouth. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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I personally would tell close family and friends once we are at 13 weeks and then announce on social media.

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I told my team at work before telling anyone else (except my husband) 😂. I was just too excited and I see them more than anyone else and they are all moms so I just felt like I wanted to tell them...and I was having very bad nausea so didnt want it to come as a shock if I puked in my trash can or something. I wanted to tell my family in person and they don't live nearby so we waited until they were visiting, which happened to be after I told my team at work. We then posted on social media shortly after that. This time around I think I might tell my sister and best friend first, then parents, and then work people. Maybe I'll change my mind though...who knows. I do feel like you should tell people who are important to you in person, though, before a social media post.

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I think this so depends on the couple. They may be being private for reasons that are not public knowledge, like a past loss or something. I don’t think it’s weird to generally not tell people before announcing, but it is a little odd to not tell people who are regular fixtures in your lives. It’s odd that one couple inquired about you being guardians to their children but didn’t give you an invite, but in general, kids’ parties can get to be way too much really fast. We only invited close family and 2 friends to my son’s 1st bday party, and it was still too big to be much fun for all of the stuff we had to put together. We won’t even do a party this big again for awhile because of it. this could be their situation. Have your husband ask about his friend’s wife—they’ll appreciate the thought. Overall, I’m not suggesting that your feelings aren’t valid or that you should just stop feeling them, but I don’t necessarily think these incidents are the result of being intentionally slighted so much as the result of your friends and you and your husband having very different lives and understandings about what is typical.

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I made sure everyone in my family that we are close with knew before Facebook. The first time I announced at my birthday get together with my family. I was only eight weeks but it was my 21st birthday and everyone was expecting me to get at least one drink. Then for my husbands side with the first we just told his parents, who flipped out since we were “too young” 🙄 and they just told their family. The second one I announced at 12 weeks. We told his family at their family Christmas. Then we told my whole side at my family Christmas. For both babies I told my mom like the day I found out along with my husband of course. 
But no. I made sure our families knew before I told social media.

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For this pregnancy we told my parents & siblings in person around 7 weeks. And he called his family and told them a few days later. 
Everyone else found out on social media at 9 weeks.

Who all did you tell personally that you were pregnant?

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