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Team green girls...? about announcing after delivery
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So are you all going to call your friends and family immediately after having the baby to tell them the gender, name, etc? We are having a scheduled c-section (unless baby decides to come early, which is very likely) so I assume some of our family will be waiting at the hospital. I thought instead of DH just going into the waiting room and making the announcement that we could have pink or blue candy to pass out or perhaps we could have pink and blue shirts made up in advance with the pre-chosen names on them and he could walk out in the appropriate shirt. Maybe I'm thinking too much into this! I think I'm actually feeling a little left out with all the gender-reveal posts today. We had so much fun revealing DS's gender to our friends and family that I think I wanted to think of an original way to reveal the gender when this baby is born. =P
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Re: Team green girls...? about announcing after delivery
I'm not team green, but IMO, I don't know what could possibly be more special than an excited husband running out of the delivery room saying "It's a boy/girl! And his/her name is _________." But that's just me.
I'm not one for pomp and circumstance. Sometimes when we overthink things or plan the crap out of them, they lose the spontaneous element that can make them the most exciting.
We were Team Green with DD and will be this time around too. I agree with pp, I don't think you need anything cutesy for a reveal. If you have people waiting at the hospital, your DH will be so excited to run out there and share the news--that's special enough.
DH and I were team green last time and will remain so during this pregnancy. The only thing that I wanted was to announce it together. Any of our family members who were in the waiting room came into the room and we announced it to them then. I loved seeing the surprise on everyone's face.
I'm not much of a showman either. I believe my husband told his family and I know I called my family while we were waiting to move to another room.
We didn't pick a name till the day we left the hospital. I most likely texted or emailed it.
The t-shirt idea is cute, but that's a lot of $$ for shirts when half of them will never get worn and the other half will only get worn in the hospital to placate you.
Well, surgery is at 7:30 for me, and aside from my mom and wanting to be there that early, no one else would want to. But, my mom will be taking care of ds and my sister has 2 little ones so they can't be there waiting, so we are calling them immediately after baby is born and calling dh's parents. As far as extended family, it'll trickle down. I'm not making a million phone calls while in the hospital, but I know my mom will call the important people for me. DH's side on the other hand, is weird, and who knows who will be the ones to tell them.
But, to answer your ultimate question, we're not doing anything blue/pink. People will be excited enough as it is to just find out if it's a boy or a girl at that point.
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My best friend is going to be in the delivery room with me... she will probaby run out to the waiting room where just a few friends will be and yell Its a BOY/GIRL. Then I will probably have the hub call our families and once we have our immediate family called I will announce on FB. The hub isnt interested in being in the room bc "he doesnt want to see a St. Bernard come thru the cat door." And since we live 1700 plus miles away from our families they more than likely wont be here for when the baby is born. And I use FB as a way to comminucate to all my friends back in NY so thats how I'll tell them without having to call each one of them right after giving birth.
It's not just you!
We ARE team green and this exact moment is pretty much the reason. DH is sooo excited for that moment, especially because we know most of our family will be there to hear it! As for family/friends that won't be there, I think we'll send out birth announcements w/ pictures pretty quickly so they will find out that way or via word of mouth (we'll call the people we're closest to and I know my big-mouthed MIL will let the family know which is fine by me).