October 2017 Moms
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Can we start a thread to share our announcements we used on social media?
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Married November 2009
Clara, August 2014
Baby Boy due October 2017
Baby Boy due October 2017
Re: Social Media Announcements
Baby Boy due October 2017
**June Siggy Challenge: You Had ONE Job!**
LO#2 EDD October 18th
TTC #1: March 2011
Fur-children: 3 dogs + 2 cats (all rescued)
dx: Endometriosis and Fibroids
2 Laps and 1 Abdominal Myomectomy
6 rounds of clomid
5 rounds of iui
IVF #1 Gonal F, Menopur and Cetrotide
ER 12/1/2016:Retrieved 22 eggs 12 fertilized, developed moderate OHSS
4/4 day 5 embryos were normal for PGS!!! 2 boys/2 girls
FET 1/10/2017
Gallbladder surgery 1/10/2017
FET 2/2
BFP 2/7/17
Having a girl! EDD 10/21/17
I found these Easter Eggs on Etsy and think we are going to do the reveal with our parents this way. Probably film it and do a mash up video that we post to FB.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/225603668/crack-me-pregnancy-announcement-easter?ref=hp_rv
That said we aren't announcing for awhile, maybe not even until May. DH has a bitter and spiteful ex and so we are keeping quiet so we can just have time to be happy before she throws her fit. I'm bummed because I really want to tell my DD but she will tell her stepbrothers and anything the youngest knows, his mom knows, so we just don't feel like it's safe.
Does anyone else else have an issue like that at all? Or has anyone else felt with it? I won't hijack this thread but I've been pondering staring a new one about how ex's were told I just don't know how many people can give advise.
Yes, she's going to be negative no matter what. Cutting her out is part of why we are thinking to wait. We are moving in June to another city away from her so if we hold off until right before we move she can get mad all she wants from miles and miles away. Distance will help. I still want DD to know sooner though so we are trying to work it out.
That being said, from experiences with other situations, I totally agree with what @mrs_fogue said! Do what makes you happy, the backlash will eventually fade and you will be able to enjoy the well wishes from your loved ones while it does!
I plan on sending them maybe a card and an Easter egg with a bible verse or psalm. This will go down and around Good Friday and Easter itself. They are moderately religious (I am not) but I think that it will help them choose an appropriate response and ease them into it.
I am not calling them because in the past, that has not gone over well. Maybe, if they can stagger their reaction, it will work out for the better.
@mrs_fogue I really love those little eggs, very cute.
@Khogue4077 your announcement is so precious, cute, and sweet
@GenTK My DH's ex is the same. When DH broke up with her she tried playing the pregnancy card but DH didn't fall for it, and it isn't actually true. She was the most hateful person I know. Anyway, I didn't care if the EX throws a fit or whatever, it even kinda makes me laugh to see her jealous over it. Anyway, my point is, don't let other people's emotion affect your happiness. For all we care they don't have any role in our lives so why would their opinion matter? Also, distance, yes distance helps a lot.
Point is, you do what's right for you. No one can tell you otherwise.
Edit: words.
Oct. '17 June S.C. "You Had 1 Job"
This was out announcement, I got so emotional after I posted it.
TEAM: PINK!!
DD has a Big Sister shirt and is really into Doc McStuffins right now so one option is to take a picture of her listening to my belly with her stethoscope...my only thing with that is it really doesn't include DH or our pups in it. Another idea is to have the 3 of us with our bellies out - her Buddha Belly, my Baby Belly, and DH's Beer Belly. But we've got some time to think it through.
BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!
@babymish I am crying over your announcement! It is so, so beautiful!
My mother in law is going to take Easter pictures of us and we're going to announce on Easter ❤ I think I'll be 14-15 weeks at that point.
I'd be thrilled to have another girl (and DH and DD both say they want a girl), but our bank account would benefit from a boy (and of course, I'd love a boy too) haha. I have entirely too much fun buying dresses and bows!
Oct. '17 June S.C. "You Had 1 Job"
May Siggy Challenge: Parenting Fails
BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!
*O17 June Siggy Challenge - You had 1 job!*
I teach and I need to let my principal know by the end if this month my plans for next year, so I need to say something soon. Which means we need to tell our families before then. My sister, a close friend, and my "nesties," are the only ones who know besides DH. I'm like a couple others of you that I've been enjoying just having this news as something special between us for now.
As far as our announcement, we are both runners and in one of our wedding photos we put on our running shoes and have our shoes and the bottom or my dress / his pants showing. We are thinking of taking a similar picture, but with baby sneakers in between our sneakers.
BFP in September 2014, DS born June 2015.
TTC x2 months.
BFP January 2017.
Anyway, to fun things. After much talk and deliberation I decide I don't want the EX to ruin the fun for DD. I know she's going to be so excited and happy. So we ordered her a special shirt and she's going to get it next Friday and come with me to my us, then she gets to wear her shirt to TX to go to my nieces birthday party and we will see who notices it.