How did you share the news with your kids? Looking for creative ways to tell my 8 year old and 4.5 year old.
My 6 year old saw the ultrasound and asked what it was ... so I showed him his sonogram photos and we led him to figuring out the new ones were taken today, so there is a baby in my belly. He jumped up and down and almost cried. It was awesome.
A lot of people had really cute ideas for announcing their pregnancies. I was boring. I told my parents and siblings over FaceTime the day that I found out that I was pregnant. I then told several people at work when I was 5 weeks because I needed to protect myself from certain occupational exposures. (I work at a hospital.) I soon realized that people are terrible at keeping secrets, so almost all of my family, friends, and coworkers knew that I was pregnant by the time that I was 8 weeks. I don't regret not having a cute pregnancy announcement or waiting to tell people, but I do like seeing the cute announcements that other people have had. Having my coworkers know that I'm pregnant made getting through my first trimester a little easier. And I'm also terrible at keeping secrets, so everyone knew that I was having a boy within a week of when I found out. I just can't keep good news to myself!
We announced last weekend to FB with this picture - We took one last year for our engagement pictures (obviously without the baby chucks in the middle) and wanted to recreate, plus baby chucks are the cutest things ever. I want to do one once he/she fits into the shoes with us in our shoes and Baby in his/hers in the middle.
We don't know sex yet, but both SD like blue shoes
We had already announced with a picture to close friends and family but yesterday we made a Facebook/Instagram picture to post that showed this little ones progression & tell everyone else - It's a nice keepsake to have! I'm going to miss having all the ultrasounds!
The framed hockey jersey was our wedding guest book. It says "The [our last names]". My MIL purchased the penguin and polar bear for our babe the day of our ultrasound. It worked out perfectly because Pittsburgh Penguins have a penguin and a polar bear as mascots! We may use the baby jersey as a guestbook for all of our hospital visitors or baby shower guests.
We just got our genetic screening results back and we are having another healthy baby BOY. We will use these pictures to announce tonight. We had a friend take gender reveal pictures for us last week, but since we didn't know what we were having we actually took pictures for both
I love allllllllllll of these! This is baby #2 for us, and was quasi-unexpected. On Christmas Eve, I still hadn't gotten my period, so DH and I snagged a pregnancy test and wanted to take it quickly before church just to verify that my body was simply stressed from the pneumonia I had just gotten over. I left the digital stick with DH as we waited and I went to grab a glass of water. Results came in while I was away from him, and he's actually the one who told me we were 2-3 weeks along .
We've just been telling people in person as we see them! I don't put much on Facebook, so I'm sure there will be lots of surprised people I see within the next 5 months .
We finally did a Facebook announcement to make it public and rolled it into another announcement that we closed on some land this week too. This pic is on our new property. We won't be moving there for a few years but we are still so excited!
We finally announced last week. We have had some health issues with my mom and I didn't feel right announcing to the rest of the world until she could actually comprehend the news herself. Plus PGAL brain is a mind f*ck in itself.
Re: Announcing
We posted this pic on FB. We are big Lego collectors and I used pieces from different minifigs to make our likenesses.
We don't know sex yet, but both SD like blue shoes
We are so happy with how it turned out - we just wanted to make everyone laugh!!
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
DX: Endometriosis - Stage 4, DOR, RPL
03.2016 - Natural BFP - MC 5w4d
04.2016 - Natural BFP - Chemical
10.2016 - IUI w/ Injections #1 = IUI Cancelled (cyst/no mature follicle)
11.2016 - IUI w/ Injections #2 = BFP, EDD 08.2017 - It's a BOY!
TTC #2 06.2019
08.2019 - IUI w/ Injections #1 = Chemical
09.2019 - IUI w/ Injections #2 = BFN
10.2019 - IUI w/ Injections #3 = BFN
01.2020 - IUI w/ Injections #4 = BFN
08.2020 - Natural BFP - MC 9w5d
11.2020 - IVF Retrieval - 3AB & 4BB
05.2021 - FET #1 = BFP, EDD 02.2022 - It's a BOY!
We've just been telling people in person as we see them! I don't put much on Facebook, so I'm sure there will be lots of surprised people I see within the next 5 months