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? asked in Pregnancy & ParentingPregnancy · 8 years ago

How to tell brother and sister in law we're pregnant?

My wife and I just found out we're pregnant with our 2nd child and are extremely happy. It took over 4 months to get pregnant. However, telling her brother and sister in law one day will be rough. They've been trying IVF unsuccessfully for the past year. They are borrowing money from family, and using their 401K's. They are in their mid to upper 30's and time is running out for them to have their own child. It hurts them to see a kid and they went through a phase where they avoided our 1 year old daughter for a month. Is there any good way to tell them when we know they're understandably not going to be happy about it?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Hi, i can understand your worry my s.i.l has been trying for 18 mo on clomid and we are blessed with 2 children plus one on the way. i have not told anyone about this one due to getting pregnant one week after a miscarriage. with that pregnancy i timed it for a day that the hormones were low (bad hormone swings on clomid) and told her privately at home before anyone else. She told me the hardest part was having people constantly talking about. if they know you are trying then it shouldnt be as big of a shock but it is still very hard. tell them privately so they have time to be ok with it so when you make the big announcement they can be happy also.

  • 8 years ago

    Not to sound harsh, but they SHOULD be happy for your good news. Dont get me wrong, I know what infertility feels like, I have one child born after 5 years of trying, then lost a son at 21 weeks and another 4 through early term miscarriage before having an hysterectomy.

    You have the right to celebrate your good news, without fear of offending those who have less luck with conception.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    no longer hassle-free concern. i became in comparable footwear whilst 6 months after our daughter moved in with us i got here across i became pregnant. We met her whilst she became 9 years previous and the adoption hadn't been finalized yet. She became so chuffed to have mothers and fathers she ought to call her very own - all her very own. It took me a month to ultimately inform her and it became tough for a on an identical time as yet she ultimately usual it rather because of the fact it became defined that no longer something ought to be completed approximately it whether she became chuffed approximately it or no longer. Now she is amazingly linked to her little brother and there is jealousy as in any sibling team. yet she is 'Little Mommy" each and each of how and that they are the two better than chuffed childrens. Your SIL will could inform her son quicker or later, she would manage to't conceal it perpetually and the longer she does the greater he will resent her for no longer trusting him. only inform him and clarify to him why his dad shouldn't understand yet (nevertheless he too will locate out quicker or later - how do you conceal an further baby?). additionally, he would be this baby's great brother in many strategies. If issues do no longer artwork out with the boyfriend she would manage to sense sturdy to understand that there remains a good male effect interior the baby's existence.

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