[Jill83]

My hubby and I are struggling to decide. Pros/cons I'm 5.5weeks.

[Cacti]

Really comes down to if you'd like their support, or like them to be aware if anything goes wrong. If yes, tell them.

[Sunnycat]

It's a personal decision.

With DS I told my parents when I was about 5 weeks. With this one I told my mum the day after I got a positive test.

[NotBitzerMaloney]

I didn't tell anyone till after NT scan
My sister told at 6 weeks

Your call!

[Old Grey Mare]

This is such an individual thing. We told my parents as soon as we found out (from memory 6 weeks). They are the type of people who can be trusted to keep secrets and did so until we passed 13 weeks and gave them the all clear to spill the beans.

[myfairlady]

Would you tell them if you had a miscarriage? If yes, then tell them. If no, then don't. This was my criteria when deciding who to tell

[futureself]

There's no 'should', it's up to you. We told some Gparents but not others which some believe is 'unfair' but to us made sense. I'm close to my Mum and if I miscarried I'd tell her and need her to she was told after our dating scan at 7 weeks. I was hideously sick with HG a few weeks later and her knowing meant she could help us with housework, doctors appointments and general sympathy! My other set of parents and ILs we told after 12 weeks.

[kpingitquiet]

Totally personal choice. I chose to tell my parents right away, so before even blood tests were done! Husband's parents, we waited until after the dating scan. Everyone else was told at 12wks. To me, it's about whose support/comments I did or did not want if I had an early miscarriage.

[Jekaho]

As PP have said, personal choice.

We would have waited til 12 weeks, but we were going overseas with my inlaws from 8-11weeks, and I didn't want to be lying to them if I was unwell. So we told both sets of "grandparents" at 7 weeks.

For me, if anything had gone wrong, I would have just wanted to deal with it with my husband. I'm intensely private about that sort of thing.

[New Horizons]

HG set in at 6 weeks, there was no hiding it from anyone, not family, friends, work, nobody. It never occurred to me to not tell people.