Okay here's full story of Thursday and Friday as promised haha.
Okay so on Thursday night we went over my dad and his fiancée’s house to tell them the news. We just gave them the card and let them open it, it took them a while to realise what it was because they just thought it was my brother’s baby on the front as he is expecting too. But I think she realised first and she just shouted, “YOU!?” and jumped up so excited to hug me haha. She’s such a happy excitable person anyway so her reaction was always going to overshadow my dads. He’s happy too though
He was just like “ANOTHER ONE!!!!” as he just found out in January he’s going to be a granddad for the first time. Then he took us out for a meal
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Straight after that we went to OH’s parents. My dad and my brother knew they were going to be getting a little “present” off us but we hadn’t said anything to OH’s parents. We just went in and gave them the card and OH’s mam looked terrified haha but she opened it. They seemed to have more of a shocked reaction, like stunned but happy haha. They popped the champagne and then we stayed over theirs. OH went home and got some stuff and brought the doppler over and we let them listen to the heartbeat! So that was nice, they’re just so amazed, even though she’s had 3 kids herself they’re still amazed by pregnancy etc.
Then there was the party!
It was a great night, loads of people turned up. Loads of mine and OH’s family, friends etc. Only 8 people knew in the room except for us. The dress hid the little bump pretty well haha. At half time when we got on stage to announce I was so nervous, hadn’t eaten anything and had felt a bit sick anyway but when we were up there, I just felt sicker and sicker and telling OH to hurry it along with the speech, he was talking through the microphone and I just kept saying “make it quicker, make it quicker,” started dry heaving on stage, trying to hide it, trying to get behind a curtain so I could try compose myself off stage, but I couldn’t, so I just had to jump off stage and run to the toilet, so I ended up missing the whole thing!!
I ran into the toilets, all were occupied/out of order and then a girl left one of the toilets so I just ran in straight after her and threw up. She was like “oh god are you okay do you want me to hold you hair back” and I was just like “No no, I’m fine,” I turned around and realised I didn’t recognise her and just kind of went “who are you” hahahahaha! She said she was a friend of one of OH’s work mates who had come along and I was just like “I’m missing my own pregnancy announcement!” and she was like “What?!” and I said “I’m pregnant! OH is announcing it right now I just had to run off the stage to be sick!” she couldn’t believe it!
Obviously when I left the toilet I was crowded around by people wanting to congratulate and ask if I was okay haha. My aunty was in tears! Was a good night, I can not believe I missed my own pregnancy announcement because I was busy being sick. Embarrassing but at least it’s a funny story, and makes for a better story than us just announcing it on stage in a boring way!
Really brings into perspective that saying 'it takes a village to raise a child'! When my MIL finally came to help out after a few weeks, I was like ready to collapse!
I can't wait to join you soon!
