Mine is a funny story, of course I had older step sons and younger ones, oldest was 24 youngest was 12. Anyway, we were all in Lake Tahoe on a vacation, older kids had their girl friends along. I did a pregnancy test and left it in our 'private' bathroom, (this was back when it took a couple of hours for test to tell) and my DH and I went out to breakfast. We told the kids where we were going and said if they wanted to join us they could. So anyway they all show up and tell me I'm pregnant! One of them had gone into our bathroom and saw the test.

Yay congratulations!!!!

We told bios and steps together. We normally try and play a board game before bed on school nights (it's a good incentive to get everyone showered, pjs and teeth brushed) anyway, we were playing charades (spelling?) that night and we got them to guess it. They were really excited and it was a fun way to tell them rather than sit them down in a serious family meeting sort of way.

The kids were pretty excited, we told them on transition day so that they had the whole week to digest the info and talk about it before going back to BM. They told BM on the phone so she was able to react and have a few days before seeing them again.

ETA: We had invited the extended family over that weekend and asked the kids to come up with a creative way to tell everyone else they were going to be big brothers/sisters. We thought by them sharing the news they would feel like a big part of it.

i remember my mom telling my brother and i the first time (she had 3 more kids after us). she had just picked us up for a weekend visit, and running a few errands before getting to her house. as we were walking in to the store, she said "hey kids, i got something i gotta tell you." my brother says "what, u're pregnant?" and she was. we were both like "that's great mom. congrats!" and that was it. i was 10, my bro was 12.

she didnt feel the need to tell dad, it was none of his damn business anyway. dad and sm found out from us with the usual "hi guys, how was your weekend?" "it was good, mom told us she's pregnant." "that's nice."

CONGRATS, SUNFLOWER!!!!!!!!!!

We hadn't decided yet how to tell SS- we had just gotten engaged a few months before I got pregnant (I wasn't even supposed to be able to have kids!)and we weren't sure how he would react to all the changes At lunch one day SS said "So how long after y'all get married will I get a brother?" We busted out laughing and told SS that it would be sooner than he thought and well it ended up being sooner than we all expected as DS was extremely early. He was really happy although I get the feeling what he expected having a little brother would be like and what it's actually like are two completely different things....

Well, we didn't tell BM. None of her business.

We told SD7 during her spring break visit here. I was 11 weeks but we wanted to do it on an extendev visit & waiting until summer would be impossible (I'm pretty short/thin & I started poking out around 13 weeks).

We hid easter eggs around and numbered them 1-5. They had notes inside saying
"we"
"are"
"having"
"a...."
"BABY! Congrats big sister"

She was really excited. I think she told BM on the phone which is fine, idc. BM never said anything to me, but I don't speak to her & haven't for a year lol. Idc what she says, she's so irrelevent to my life. She did throw several temper tantrums over other things right after, so I know it killed her on the inside. BM & DH never married & really didn't datae, she had a baby by his best friend after SD & tried to tell SD that this man was her 'real daddy' etc etc. That dude left for 2 years, came back for his son but still doesn't want BM. She's single & lonely & poor. & DH is happy & thriving. It kills her. & I laugh.

CONGRATS! enjoy it & don't worry about BM or anything like that.

We had an ultrasound picture... one that pretty much looked like a blob. They kind of stared at it for a few minutes trying to figure it out and then they guessed. They were like 8 & 9 at the time. We did not tell BM.. none of her business.