when are you going to tell your other kids?

[K1W1]

Just wondering when everyone is going to tell their other kids?

I've got a scan tomorrow and DS will be there with me, and i'm expecting him to be awake the whole time, so he'll want to know whats going on, so i'm thinking of telling him,

so when are theres telling?

[zenifa]

Although my DD is only 19mths old, we have already told her that mummy has a baby in her tummy and we've read ''there's a house inside my mummy' to her. When you ask her where the baby is, she will often point to my tummy or belly button and even her own at times, which is very cute. However I doubt that she really understands at this age, but we want to give her lots of time to get used to the idea. She's fascinated by babies and luckily in the last three months, 3 of our friends have had their 2nd baby, so she's been exposed to a few newborns.

[abeckaj]

My DD came to the 12 week scan with me and DH and when she saw the screen with 2 babies on there she said" look mum, more babies"

It was very cute and she now just randomly comes up and kisses my belly once on the left and once on the right - one kiss for each baby!

[Mybabble]

Awww how cute!

Lachy is only 14 mnths old so he doesnt understand whats going on but we make sure we tell him that there is a baby in mummys tummy.
He just giggles and goes off to play:rolleyes:

[Pebbles]

We told my DS about 2 weeks ago. We werent going to tell him this early as he was so devastated when we lost the last baby but he over heard me on the phone a couple times and being 6 he understood what I was saying and figured it out. He keeps coming up and patting my belly and saying "Is the baby still there mum..?" its cute but its also a bit sad coz he is so scared this one is going to go away like the other one did.

[SpaghettiMummy]

I've told my kids and DS is now excited! His initial reaction when I told him was "no mummy", DD already has her own "baby" (a soft baby doll from kmart for 12 months plus) so she kind of has an idea but I think it'll be more likely she'll understand as we get closer to my being as she'll be older then DS was.

My DS was only 17 months when DD was born but we told him early on as much as we could we set up another cot and got baby's room ready and borrowed a doll to try to help explain and also put the other car seat in when I was bout 30 weeks pregnant. It all helped we think (couldn't do the book reading thing as he's just not interested in it!) for him to understand and we always prepared him for my appointments he came to. ie the Dr is going to look at mummies tummy today and whatever else the Dr had to do would be told to him before it was done.

ETA: DS will be three and a couple of months this time so does know what's going on now too.

[K1W1]

hmmmm i'm still debating what to tell him, DH is comming to the scan this arvo too, so might talk to him before we go in and see what he thinks, we didn't tell him at all about our last pregnancy, even when we got past 12wks, maybe cause deep down I knew somethign was up

anyways, DS is comming up 3 in a couple of mths too, so maybe if we tell him he'll understand, or maybe I should wait till we're past 24wks to tell him,


hmmmm I think i'll be more comfortable telling him after 24wks

[defaipe]

when i fell preg with dd#3 my older girls were 2&1/2yrs and 6months so they were at every appt but i didnt discuss the bub with dd#1 till our big scan at 19weeks when i found out it was a girl, then she found out she was having another sister.. if she had asked me then without a doubt i wouldve told her but she was too busy trying to run a muck in the drs surgery than to care about what he was saying hehe.
my girls were (almost)16months & 3yrs4months when dd#3 was born. i really dont think it kicked in till she was here. but theyve both been amazing :yes:

[Grizabella]

Brion has been told - but he doesn't get it LOL Typical male. He gets that House inside my Mummy book read to him too - he just likes the pictures LOL.

Talking to your hubby is a good idea Jo - your DS is getting to an age where things won't add up if you dont. Good luck deciding.

[K1W1]

i've decieded to wait untill I get close to 20wks

DS didn't say a thing at the scan, he was more interested in his bus and the rubber gloves that were on the wall beside him lol

so i'll tell DS probably when I go for my anatomy scan,

[Grizabella]

Good idea Hun!

[Milliner]

DS is only 15 months so he will not understand but I am hoping that he will get it by the time I am about to pop