'I'm expecting' stories
Every expectant mom has a story, so we asked Newsday readers to share their stories of how they told their loved ones they were expecting. Grab a tissue, and there are more at newsday.com/kids.
"I had my oldest daughter, who was 1 at the time, walk into my mother's house with a shirt on underneath her jacket that said, "Guess who's going to be a big sister?" I kept her jacket on for a good five minutes before my mother was like, "Why is this poor kid's jacket still on?" She then took the coat off and found the wonderful news. Sadly, I miscarried at 5 months, but telling my mother and seeing the look on her face was priceless. Since then, we were able to conceive one more, and now I'm the proud mother of two beautiful little girls." -- Jessica Sheehan Priola, Farmingville
"We were playing cards, and I told him he should write 'Daddy' instead of his name on the scoring papers."-- Ellamarie Johnson,
"We decided to tell everyone on my husband's birthday. He requested Chinese food for dinner, so we decided to have custom fortune cookies baked with a message inside that said, "We're having a baby." My sister was the first one to open it. . . . She screamed and just started hugging me, and everyone was so confused. We then told everyone to open their fortunes, too, and finally they all caught on."-- Lisa Szchur, East Patchogue
Compiled by Jennifer Berger
