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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is making me dread telling my family should the day ever come. I would really have no interest in sharing with them. The prior times I shared some interesting news or medical info. the conversation quickly pivoted to themselves. At the same time, I know it would be the nail on the coffin based on social norms. [/quote]

If we have a second child we will not be sharing with my in-laws until the arrival. And unfortunately, it has nothing to do with them! They, like some on this thread, consider it absolutely required to share with siblings. We held out telling my sister-in-law until 28 weeks last time (amid repeated lectured about how we HAD to tell her), and for 12 weeks thereafter I received hourly phone calls and texts. *Hundreds* a day. My husband repeatedly called his sister to tell her to get a grip and she simply refused. My in laws even told her to stop. I was high risk and on bed rest, details we blessedly had not shared. When my daughter was two, I mentioned in passing that we had been on bedrest and my mother-in-law was shocked she hadn’t known. I told her it was because of how she felt about sharing this information with sister-in-law and she was absolutely mortified.

So should we be blessed for the second child, they will find out when the baby is here. And they can choose to make it about themselves and they can choose to be insulted, but it is about SIL‘s conduct.
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