facebook when you go to L&D

Emeraldeyed315 · July 2013

mobile: facebook when you go to L&D

We will not be updating our status when we head to L&D. I have many friends that have..including one that got sent home for false labor. Besides that fear of not truly being in labor, its a time I want to cherish with family...not hundreds of fb friends. After we have LO and tell our families, we will make an announcement then.

What are you planning on?

mochalattemama · July 2013

I don't want to, buy my fiance is all about the booking of faces.

AmeliaKris · July 2013

Same as you. No fb until little one is here and safe.

WildRumpus · July 2013

DH and I have agreed that there will be radio silence until LO arrives, and asking family to respect that as well.

WheeLinTheSky3 · July 2013

We will also wait until we get home. Last time we posted something on FB when DS was born and we had a whole parade of unwanted visitors. It was amazing how many people that we had not seen in YEARS that showed up uninvited and unannounced to my hospital room.

coraggiosa · July 2013

No way. I haven't even posted about pregnancy, so there is no way I would post about going into labor.

RoosterMemphis · July 2013

we won't be announcing on Facebook at first, not because we don't want to share with everyone, but because my family has zero respect for our wishes of not wanting any visitors at the hospital. so we will send out a text to our closest friends to keep them in the loop, and then announce to family and the world when she's already here.

coraggiosa · July 2013

Kristin030:
We will also wait until we get home. Last time we posted something on FB when DS was born and we had a whole parade of unwanted visitors. It was amazing how many people that we had not seen in YEARS that showed up uninvited and unannounced to my hospital room.

That sounds like a nightmare.

lindsayanne14 · July 2013

We will not be status updating anyone via Facebook or any other way. Our immediate families and a few close friends will know when we go to the hospital, everyone else will be told when LO is here.

bendicott7 · July 2013

Like a lot of you have said, DH and I are not going to post on FB until LO is here and we are settled.

eta: We are also going to ask anyone who does know we are in the hospital (family and really close friends) not to post anything to FB as that is our news to share and not theirs.

WaterWorth0102 · July 2013

Nothing from me until we're home. And family has agreed to hold off as well.

lkobriant · July 2013

No facebook until LO is here and possibly even a couple of days after. And anyone receiving phone/text updates will be heavily threatened about posting on Facebook.

CelticWife · July 2013

In the past, me make a "welcome baby" post a day or two after baby arrives. But that is all.

I do not really want people to know when I am in labor. I learned with my first that family just drives me and DH crazy; you constantly get texts, emails, and calls asking for updates. So the second time and this time we will tell our parents and his siblings. That is all until after baby girl arrives.

LnR70707 · July 2013

We might text close friends and family when we are admitted, but probably won't put anything on FB until she is actually here.

girlmama83 · July 2013

No, I don't plan on being on my phone while in labor at all. We have a list of people we want to make sure know that Hannah is on her way, but the rest of the world can find out once we are all settled.

amarissa85 · July 2013

I didn't Friday when I was there and I don't plan on doing it when we go next time either.

henderson1026 · July 2013

MIL posted the pregnancy within a day of us telling her (just shy of 5 weeks), we will call/text her when we are at the hospital and most likely she will post something again. They are all out of state, so there is no risk of surprise visitors. I completely understand not wanting other people sharing your news, and I would prefer it that way, but if it happens I'm just gonna let it go.

Luckymomma4 · July 2013

I will probably post after she is born and we are both given a clean bill of health. The people closest to me already know when my Csection is. I don't want a bunch of visitors because I will most likely be drugged out.

bluegirl0429 · July 2013

Who would honestly want a play by play of labor? No thanks.

I won't post anything until a day or two after and only family and close friends will know via text or email. Plus, I will make sure DH adds a no posting on FB rule until we do.

WheeLinTheSky3 · July 2013

coraggiosa:
Kristin030:
We will also wait until we get home. Last time we posted something on FB when DS was born and we had a whole parade of unwanted visitors. It was amazing how many people that we had not seen in YEARS that showed up uninvited and unannounced to my hospital room.
That sounds like a nightmare.

It was a nightmare mixed in with a whole lot of WTF. It was nice of people to care but I don't understand how hospitals became nightclubs and people just show up whenever. The people that showed up were randos from college and HS that we had not seen, let alone talked to, in a long time and they acted like it was completely normal to show up.

yayamag · July 2013

I have begun to hate Facebook now that I'm pregnant... I don't know how to prevent my family and my exes family from posting my sons pics up on fb. I hate to even think of it.

JBrooks315 · July 2013

Meh, I don't care either way. I might have DH do a couple updates. Almost all of our family and friends are about 3 1/2 hrs or more away so I don't think there will be any surprise guest. Plus FB is the only way I keep in touch with most of them.

RoadToFertility · July 2013

I definitely want to keep it as private as possible. I would like as much bonding time with my little boys that I can get before the flood of visitors start, especially since I want to breastfeed and really want to focus my full attention on my babies. I know that we will have to make this extremely clear to our family, ESPECIALLY, my MIL who posts literally e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g on facebook. Everything. I don't want pictures of our babies posted either until I'm ready for it.

BlondieBia21 · July 2013

We won't be posting until baby is here, just in case. Also, no one is to announce the baby on fb or post a picture of her until we have done so.

rooftop · July 2013

Facebook will be hubbys deal the day after she arrives

Lovehavinggirls · July 2013

We haven't even announce that I'm pregnant on FB so I'm not planning on announcing when I go into the hospital. Once we tell all of our family and close friends we will make the announcement. With DD I changed my settings so no one could tag me in a post unless I approved it until I was ready to share. Im also having a csection but only a few people will know the date.

N_Koz · July 2013

No Facebook until peanut arrives

Millie1984 · July 2013

Jill9288:
DH and I have agreed that there will be radio silence until LO arrives, and asking family to respect that as well.

This for us as well. Privacy is really important to me, plus I think I definitely have one or two people who would push their way into the hospital before I was ready to see anyone.

lyndz333 · July 2013

coraggiosa:
No way. I haven't even posted about pregnancy, so there is no way I would post about going into labor.

This. I want to spend that time being truly present with my husband and concentrating on having my baby but, I don't get on Facebook much anyway.

amaseya · July 2013

Same here, we will announce when the little guy is here and no pics by anyone until we announce it. I hope anyway... My mom is more than a little crazy right now and I think she's convinced our son is as much her child as he is ours.

shelbell1028 · July 2013

I'll post on FB once DS is born and we have settled in together.

Jkip0705 · July 2013

Facebook will be a far thought in our minds when the time comes. We will call our close family to let them know but until LO is here, our Facebook will not be a part of it.

CaliforniaDream87 · July 2013

Nope. When I'm in labor there will be no updates on FB or really any social media. I'm sure I will update here after but I think people who give play by plays of them in labor, on FB, are serious AW's.

amandarins · July 2013

I've never even discussed my pregnancy on Facebook....or even much else in the past year or so. I'd like to delete it but I can't bring myself to do it

melosch · July 2013

I plan to keep labor updates AND baby off of social media for at least a couple of weeks. We will share pictures with friends and family through email, but I don't feel the need to share with FB, Instagram or with work announcements.

afrochick09 · July 2013

Just family until LO is out.

[Deleted User] · July 2013

Kristin030:
We will also wait until we get home. Last time we posted something on FB when DS was born and we had a whole parade of unwanted visitors. It was amazing how many people that we had not seen in YEARS that showed up uninvited and unannounced to my hospital room.

Oh wow that's crazy. I would not want that! We didn't have FB when we had DS so I wasn't worried. We will not be posting either until we get home

Bunnyfer · July 2013

My Dh will and I might make a few posts if I am up to it, but my friend is going to keep everyone updated. No one in my family is even close and my FB has only the people I want to know so I am not worried about it

ktballz · July 2013

lyndz333:
coraggiosa:
No way. I haven't even posted about pregnancy, so there is no way I would post about going into labor.
This. I want to spend that time being truly present with my husband and concentrating on having my baby but, I don't get on Facebook much anyway.

All of this. Luckily my family has been really understanding about the social media free pregnancy and are respectful of me taking the lead on posting any info.

JBrooks315 · July 2013

She'sGotAWay:
Might update when I know that the Thundercats are go, but most likely we'll wait till he's here. Certainly no dilation updates etc. Ha.

Love the Juno reference.

V&G101808 · July 2013

No Facebook until LO has arrived and we're settled into the post partum suite.

We're sending out a group text to a certain set of people to let them know when we've been admitted and another text will go out once LO is here. But FB doesn't need to know that soon.

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