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I am 41 and pregnant. My daughter is 18 and my son is 14 so I completly understand your fears. When I was pregnant this summer (miscarried) it was a huge surprise to my son. My daughter was surprised but happy. She had a friend who's mom did the same thing so for her it was not weird. But my son was a different story. I told him I had something big to tell him. When I told him he was not impressed. Not one bit. We then decided to go out for a clebration dinner and on the half hour drive there he would say things like, well, I guess it does not matter since you ignore me anyways, and, so I will be the unloved middle child? I just calmly responded to all his remarks. During dinner I reminded him about how when he was young he was his big sister's willing slave and how nice to no longer have to get his own remote control or juice or whatever. By dessert he was on our side lol. When I miscarried he didnt say much and this time my rotten DH would not let me stress about telling him (which I was doing and said Iwould wait a week till I told him) and so he walked in to my son's room said "mom is pregnant again get dressed the reservations for the celebration dinner is at 7. he said ok, and that was that we all had a great evening. Lol, I understand your worries and I hope it goes well for you. Boys can be a bit meme at that age. Does he have any friends with much younger siblings? Perhaps he will surprise you and be ok with it.

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