Aisling’s Preggo Blog

I am 10 wks 4 days today, and I am wondering when I should tell people. I mean real people that I know. It seems I am more comfortable telling the blogging world than my real friends - go figure (introvert anyone??)

I went to a house warming on Sunday at a friends house, and tried on everything I owned to see what fit. Barely anything did, and the ones that did was a give away on the pregnancy status. Any Muslimahs know that you cant walk in a room filled with Muslimahs sporting a bit of a baby bump without people asking questions “Oh! MashaAllah! I can’t believe you didn’t tell me!” LOL.

 But my friends are mashaAllah ultra polite, so I just got a few belly stares throughout the day and some questions like “So, anything new? anything different, exciting…?” 

For someone like me, you really have to understand how extremely difficult it is for me to NOT tell friends, especially if I think they have already noticed. Like before I was Muslim, in my house my mum would go Christmas shopping and come home and tell me what she did. Then she would say “So do you wanna know what I got ya?” Of course I wanted to know! And after she tells me everything, she says, “Wanna see?”. This is how I have been PROGRAMMED - if its good news you MUST tell!  And by the way, of course when I got old enough to buy stuff for her I did the exact same things.

I am scared to tell, but also excited. What a strange feeling it is.

In all honesty, I think I will wait until I have an ultrasound AFTER 13 weeks so I know things are OK. Problem is, at the rate my belly bump is going, I may have to tell earlier than the 16 or 18 week ultrasound! We’ll see!