I'm having a really difficult time this pregnancy with preparing to tell our families. I'm not quite sure why.
At 5 weeks, 1 day I have not had a doctors appointment yet and I won't have one for another three weeks. That appointment is only with the nurse, and I'm not sure if we will get an ultrasound. I know they won't use the doppler, because the doppler doesn't work until 10 weeks. Hopefully everything is okay with the baby, I have this odd feeling that something is off. I pray that my feeling is wrong and that it's just maternal anxiety. I felt really strongly after getting the positive pregnancy test that this baby is a boy. That feeling has subsided a bit so we will see how the pregnancy goes.
We have to tell Ben's family tomorrow. Well, I'm telling his mom, sister, and grandma. He's telling his dad and brother a day or two later. Why tomorrow? We all had a extended family vacation (cruise) planned for next summer. They are planning on booking the tickets by Friday. The pregnancy puts a damper on that for us, because babies less than 6 months old can't cruise with the cruise line we planned to go on. We could possibly go on a different cruise line, but it would alter the original plan...we'll see what they decide to do.
How are we telling them? We are printing out family photos and giving them as gifts and then saying, "You want to know what's really special about this photo? It's the first one of our family of four!"
We are telling my family at my mom's retirement dinner. She's retiring after this week. I tried to get her to go out to dinner this week so we could tell them before we left for the weekend, but no such luck. She wanted to wait. Oh well, we'll tell them soon!
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