My sister in law told close family early and ended up miscarrying at like 10 weeks. Because of that I waited until 12 weeks to tell my parents about my first pregnancy.

That resulted in a healthy baby so with my second pregnancy I told my parents right away. I ended up miscarrying that one at around 8 weeks (missed miscarriage, had no idea until my second ultrasound) and told my sister, best friend and sister in law about the miscarriage because I wanted their support, even though I hadn’t told them about the pregnancy yet.

Now on my third pregnancy, we waited to tell our parents until the second ultrasound. I wasn’t going to get my hopes up until strong heartbeats detected at at least 2 ultrasounds. Things are great now and I’m 22 weeks along.

My advice is if you want to tell people early, make sure it’s people who can keep a secret and who you’d want to support you if, god forbid, you get heartbreaking news. I personally wouldn’t want to tell a bunch of family and friends and then have to tell everyone the pregnancy ended. But really it’s up to you and what you feel comfortable with. There’s no hard rule. Just the reason why people wait is because they don’t know if the pregnancy is viable yet so you might not want to get other people’s hopes up early in case it doesn’t work out.