NIPT Results & Telling my husband’s adult kids

Some of you may remember that I post about 1.5 months month ago because I was conflicted about whether I should continue my pregnancy or not. I’m 42 and while I wasn’t too overly concerned about my age, my husband is 65 and had made it clear from the start of our relationship that he was done having kids.

Ultimately, I decided to continue the pregnancy barring any devastating results found during prenatal testing.

First hurdle done! Everything came back low risk on the NIPT. I had made myself sick waiting for the results. I’m just ecstatic now.

And the test says we’re having a girl! I already have a name picked out and everything.

It’s so hard to pace myself. I want to start planning the nursery next but my husband keeps telling me to slow down. I’m in my 2nd trimester now, so chances of something happening are much lower and get lower with each passing day.

I had some morning sickness, but that’s passed. My main symptom now is some bloating (no actual bump) and extremely sore breasts. My breasts have already grown 2 full cup sizes. When I have a bra on, it looks like I got a major boob job. It’s weird, I feel less pregnant now than I did at 8-9 weeks.

I think we’re going to tell his kids soon. They’re all adults and 3 of them have kids of their own. They may need some time to adjust to the news, understandably. I know we could wait longer, but I don’t see any reason to. I feel like they might take it worse if we wait until 16-20 weeks, plus I hope to be showing by then. Yes, this is my one and only pregnancy I’ll ever experience and I want to experience it all. I also don’t know if it’s be best to just tell them very straightforward or do some sort of cute announcement. I want to do a cute announcement but I’m not sure if they’d appreciate that. What do you all think? How did you announce to family and friends?

His adult kids are going to be the first people we tell. Well, I told my sister already, but I’ll be announcing to the rest of my family and friends soon. I’m mostly just nervous about his kids. I get along great with them but they’re so close to my age that it’s never been a step parent/step child relationship. I hope they’ll accept it and be happy for us but I will also understand if they have other feelings. He has grandkids that will be older than our baby and I get that it could be awkward for some.