As soon as that little plus sign showed up, I started to think about all of these great ways we could tell our parents the exciting news. However, since I'm way too impatient, we ended up calling everyone last night (parents, grandparents, and siblings) and sharing the news with them. Everyone was overjoyed and overwhelmed.
Now, this was extremely early in the pregnancy to be sharing the news - we are only 5 weeks pregnant. The general rule is that you shouldn't tell people the news until you've made it past the first 12 weeks. The thought process behind this is that the rate of miscarriage decreases after 12 weeks However, our personal opinion was that if something did go wrong, we'd want our families' support and so we were comfortable with telling them.
While we're on the topic though, the statistics on miscarriage appear to be very skewed. After reading about it in my books, it turns out that miscarriage rates are the highest during the first 4 weeks of pregnancy (at which point you wouldn't even be able to test positive on a home pregnancy test). By week 5 (when I found out I was pregnant) the chance of a miscarriage is only about 15% and continues to drop rapidly. By week 7 it is only 3% and by week 8 it is only 2%, which is what it will remain at through the rest of the pregnancy.
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