When will you tell the older siblings? - Page 3

[Kleine Hexe]

I just told my older ds tonight. I couldn't wait any longer.

He was so excited. He was bouncing all over and asking all sorts of questions. How big is it? Is it a boy or girl? When is it coming? He asked what it looked like so we browsed the book "A Child Is Born" and he looked at the pics.

Now, let's see if he can keep it a secret.

[my2elliots]

We told our 18 month old and talk about the baby on the way all the time infront of him.. BUT he has no idea what we are talking about!! I guess once he sees my big tummy he might start understanding what's up.. I know he's going to super excited to have a little baby around to play with.

[clavicula]

Ehhmmm, we didn't want to tell DD1 yet (2.5 yrs), but the other day she made a "picture" of her family, and she said, there was "Sophie" in mommy's belly...she "just knows", i guess.

[catballou24]

we just found out yesterday that we are expecting again. this will be the last baby for us. we decided to wait a bit to tell our dd's - our oldest is turning 5 on monday and our youngest is 30 months. we were pregnant in november and lost that baby at 6 weeks. we'd told them right away then so having to tell them, especially our 5 year old, that the baby was gone was really hard...i'm being very superstitious this time around, even though my lines are ALOT darker than before and i'm actually having better symptoms...

[BundleFishMama]

We told our other kids about 10 minutes after I told DH I just can't keep secrets at all!

[CheriK]

DS and DD are 6 - new baby is due on/about their birthday (I'm not sure if I like the idea of all the kids w/ the same bday or not!). We haven't told them yet, the plan is currently to wait until I'm at least 10-12 weeks. But if I get bad ms again, then we'll re-think that.

They're so observant, though, that they might guess. I took a bath w/ my son last week (BEFORE the + pg test, but I already guessed) and he asked me, "Mom, why are your nipples so dark?" He only weaned a month or so ago, so I guess he's still pretty aware of how my breasts normally look. And they are already bigger (and I guess darker, although I didn't notice).

They've been asking about having a baby sibling for at least a year, so I expect they'll like the idea. And we homeschool, so I'm really excited about sharing the baby's growth with them. I expect that they'll be there for the birth. I especially want them to experience a natural birth, because whenever they "play" birth, they always pretend to have the doctor cut the baby out of the mommy's tummy (they've seen their birth video), even though we've talked about normal birth and watched videos. I want dd especially to know what a woman's body can do!

[catballou24]

with all my symptoms and feeling pregnant, we caved and told both the girls and my son. all were thrilled! our 5 year old especially...she asks me everyday if the baby is still in my tummy and on saturday couldn't help herself...she blurted it out to her entire soccer team.. i guess we aren't keeping it too much of a secret...