Baby Diary: When to Announce Your Pregnancy

So I recently found the journal I kept while pregnant with my daughter, and it's a beautiful glimpse into my mind set years back! As I stated, I'll be sharing parts of it (with fresh commentary) here.Dear Baby,Your dad loves to talk to you in a cutesy tiny-talk voice. He says hi and bye to you. He says I love you, and he says don't look, baby, I'm kissing your mother.We're having such trouble figuring out who to tell when. Right now both sets of your grandparents know. We'll need to tell your aunts and your great grandparents soon.Right now, What to Expect When You're Expecting calls you "a tiny, tadpole-like embryo, much smaller than a grain of rice." But the book also admits you have a head with a mouth, a pumping heart, a brain, and arm and leg buds :).One of the trickiest stages of a pregnancy is when you're still trying to figure out who should know and when. There are people in your life that are so important, they really need to hear it firsthand from you! There are also plenty of people who don't really need to know until you're showing.Traditionally (don't ask whose tradition; I really don't know), a young family waits until the start of the second trimester to announce the pregnancy publicly. The reason for this is entirely practical and painful. The risk of miscarriage in the first trimester is 10-25%. If, God forbid, a miscarriage were to happen, eventually all the people who were told about the pregnancy, would need to be told about the miscarriage. Personally, I wouldn't want to be telling potentially dozens of people that I am no longer pregnant. Some people like to have broad support, but I prefer specialized support (as in, these three people and my family). I wouldn't want a crowd of people pitying me and patting me on the back. I'd want X, Y, and Z there and praying.Evonne Lack over at Babycenter.com wrote a great article about "When to Announce Your Pregnancy." She features opinions from many different moms, so you don't have to take my word on it.