I have two daughters and a baby on the way. When did you tell your older kids the good news?

Our Mommy MD Guide’s reply:  My first two daughters are only a year and a half apart, but I waited 3 years to get pregnant with my third. I wasn’t sure how my daughters, who were then ages 5 and 3, would react to the news that I was pregnant, so I tried to wait until I was 12 weeks along to tell them.

But my oldest daughter figured it out before that. In hindsight, it’s easy to see how: Her line of sight was right at my belly. One day, (read more)

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