You are all so creative!! I'm loving this thread! I'm still clueless about what to do. I've told my closest friends who knew about our IVF, but I want to do a proper announcement after our 12 week scan and NIPT results!
We told everyone hella early. We told all our family the day I tested positive. I think I was around five weeks when we put something on Facebook. I had HG with the first so I knew once I started spewing I wouldn't be able to hide it and I wanted to announce it rather than everyone just guess it.
Anyway, I made this shirt for my son and we just let him run around.
I could’ve sworn I already posted this on here a while ago, but I don’t see it. To continue the Harry Potter trend, I’m wearing this shirt to a Harry Potter festival here next weekend and we’ll take pictures there to use as an announcement. I’ll be 13 weeks, and normally I might have waited longer, but everyone knew we were trying anyway after 2 years of being pretty open about fertility treatments and losses. It’s only fair that we also let everyone know about the happy times!
It’s from Gladditudes on Etsy and really good quality. They have a bunch of different designs if anyone is interested!
I had the first ultrasound last Monday and baby looks great. So we decided to tell my family this past weekend. I had DD bring out her new book, I'm a Big Sister, and she have it to my dad. His and my mom's reaction was priceless! We got it in video too. Then at dinner I surprised my sister and her family. We were paying for a family picture outside the restaurant by the river and as my dad counted 1, 2, ... I shouted "We're having another baby!" And my dad snapped the photo of everyone's reaction. It was awesome! We'll be sharing the news with my il's next weekend probably with the book and DD again.
We won't announce publicly until at least 13 weeks, possibly but until after the quad screen at 16 weeks. I do photography on the side, so I will do our photo shoot again this time for announcement photos. Tripod and a shutter release are my friends. I bought DD and myself cute dresses and a small hanging chalkboard that I plan to write something like "Big sister May 2018". We'll take the photos at sunset at a local nature preserve.
I've been all over the place with ideas without actually talking to my husband.We finally agreed TOGETHER (apparently I can't make all the decisions) on our announcement. He is a drummer. We are going to set up a mini drum set next to my husbands set and I will be plugging my ears. "Baby ______ making noise April 2018" . (My due date was moved to last day in April but I'm sticking with my May ladies.)
We were planning on waiting a little longer to tell extended family but we had an US and saw the heartbeat so we feel comfortable telling more people. We will see some of my cousins (including one who is also pregnant) at a Halloween party at the end of the month and I ordered this shirt to wear as my “costume”
Your ideas are all adorable! So many creative people on this board! We will not do a formal announcement because this is our fifth kid, and frankly, no one cares haha! I already told most of the people I work with because I tend to throw up randomly. I'm a professional singer, and there's no way to hide morning sickness during rehearsals and performances.
we haven't announced to anyone yet, and it's slowly killing me. We're having family and some friends over for Halloween, and my little guy will be wearing this shirt as an announcement. We'll likely follow up with a social media post with a picture of him, as a no frills announcement.
I thought I posted here but I guess not. We pretty much just told family and a few close friends and my boss so far. I tried to be a little witty about it, like my mom was saying how she had just finished a big queen size quilt so I said "sounds like you need a smaller project, maybe another baby quilt?" For my MIL we were going over for her anniversary and had got her a card and wrote our names and put Baby #2 as one of them. And FIL, my DH just blurted it out. My sisters I literally just texted them.
My DH has basically told everyone he knows though!
TW: I really didn't feel like being creative since in between DS and this babe I had a miscarriage and it was handled so insensitively by my family. I was only about 5 weeks and hadn't even told my DH. I had a cute plan since his birthday was in a couple weeks and wanted to surprise him. But then miscarried less than a week after finding out. It felt weird to tell all my family, by the way I lost a baby. So I was just going to heal and move on and after my DH and DS's birthdays tell him. I know my husband. He is not sensitive or emotional or empathetic and I knew telling him would not help me. (It didn't...) but basically the whole thing blew up at my sons first birthday party, everyone basically told me how I was horrible for how I handled it, and then ignored me for a few weeks. I've tried to forgive and move on but relationships are pretty much forever changed. So this time I basically just said we're pregnant and left it at that.
This is our first so I think we're going to wrap our Christmas Card pictures into our announcement. We were going to get a banner from Target that reads "Give Thanks" or "Thankful" and take pictures in front of the fall colors anyway so we might hold up a onesie with it too or else just caption it with something like "Counting our Extra Blessing this year." Should be fun
Married: 12/19/15
BFP: 9/4/17 EDD: 5/16/18 DD born 5/10/18 Postpartum Complications
@theletlers. That’s terrible. I’m truly sorry you were treated that way. A miscarriage is a personal thing that can’t be understood by anyone else, even those that have gone through them. It’s a different experience for everyone. Really truly sorry.
@theletlers I'm shocked and so confused by your family's reaction! That's so horrible I'm really sorry you're dealing with that and I hope one day they realize how insensitive and supportive they are! I hope you can still try to enjoy and celebrate this pregnancy, even if it's all just to yourself
@theletlers that is awful. I'm sorry they were dismissive of how you decided to handle it. Everyone needs to process/tell people in their own time and in their own way.
Not going to announce until after my Nuchal scan but having a dating scan next week and finally (after much cancelling on their end) going to tell my parents when they come visit fist weekend of november -- I will be 10 weeks. Pretty sure they are going to kick themselves for delaying it.
12 weeks tomorrow so we took a trip to the pumpkin patch and came up with this. Caption says, "We're so excited to add another little pumpkin to the patch!"
H is huge into soccer (played and won state in HS and played in college and even now up until his torn ACL) so after the OB called me with our results yesterday this is how I told him. I told the toddler I got him a new soccer ball but daddy needed to pump it up first. He was shocked and happy! We weren't supposed to have results until Friday!
Hi All, First off you all are super creative. I've bought my hubs and I the mama and papa bear shirts to wear as Halloween costumes for an upcoming party.
However, I am struggling on how to tell one of my close friends. I've known her since kindergarten and she has been TTC for about 5 or 6 months. We talked about wanting to be pregnant at the same time and our kids being each others' first friend.The last time we talked about babies was right before my BFP. I don't want her finding out via social media but don't know how to approach the conversation.
Any advice for how to tell someone you care about but know they are going through struggles conceiving?
@dee_ao I think it is great you are being sensitive to her feelings. I asked for some similar advice yesterday and many of the ladies suggested that I let the person know before posting on social media and ask them if they would like to be blocked from the post if it would be hurtful for them to see it popping up over and over again.
@dee_ao my SIL and I decided to also try at the same time so we could be pregnant together. She got pregnant the first month and it took me a year. I know that she told us over dinner at her house and I was shocked but pulled it together to be happy for her. When we left and got back in the car, I started crying. So please give her some time to break down alone. So either near the end of your meeting or even text message would have been fine with me so I could suffer in silence. After that, I loved seeing her but there was also sadness. So I would never initiate getting together but I would meet up anytime she asked because I was happy for her and I enjoyed seeing her. I am on a group chat with my in laws which is basically just pictures of the baby. I muted the conversation so I don't get notifications but I check it out and comment every now and then.
Just printed these off. Just need frames and my 3 other kiddos to hold one each (surprisingly they all have distinct hogwarts houses personalities) I'll update when I get the pic!
I get my blood drawn for my cell-free DNA test on Monday. If I get the results within 1.5 weeks I would like to proceed by: 1. Telling some close family and friends that don’t know yet 2. Tell my boss and staff (I strategically moved my team meeting and setup a 1:1 with my manager the end of that 2nd week) 3. Announce that following weekend at my DD’s bday party. She’ll be 2 so she won’t get it or be mad that I stole her thunder haha. But I’d catch a ton of extended family and close friends in person and can’t wait to see the shock on some people’s faces. 4. Social media post.
Still have to run this by my husband but I think it should be good. I also wanted to include something in our Christmas cards, but I ordered them already and felt it was too early to commit that way so I just signed it “The *****ns”.
@jenbabymama thank you for sharing your perspective as the person that would be receiving the news. I've been told by others that a text would be fine so that she can take time to react in her own way. I thought a text was impersonal, but hearing from you that a text would have been fine makes me feel more comfortable in doing that.
I want to do a pumpkin themed announcement for close family after the NT scan and bloodwork and I'm thinking some sort of announcement on our Christmas card for everyone else.
But I think my mom would kill me for what that's insinuating. She's very proper and I have family I'm friends with on FB. We haven't told friends or extended fam yet (sometime after 13 weeks) and then I'm not really sure if we will do a social media announcement because I'm so paranoid (but if we did we would post around Christmas, 20+ weeks).
@bearwithme I always try to order them early because you get the best deals! Things get so crazy around holiday time so I’ve made myself order them in early October the last couple years!
@k5678 I actually was “late” this year and missed the 75% off deal. Ended up having to settle for 60% off. They are on track to arrive today and I can’t wait to see them! Hope you get some good savings.
We told my parents and my in laws by getting them a "grandbaby" frame with an ultrasound picture. We told my in-laws on their 43rd wedding anniversary, and handed them the box with the frame inside. As my mother in law was opening it she said "I bet I know what this is!"...let me just say it's not what she thought it was! She thought it was a framed wedding picture (we got married in March)..they are overjoyed as it's the first grandbaby for both my parents and his.
In two weeks we are going to visit my brother and sister in law in CT, we are going to wear "Mama" and "Dad" shirts and see how long until they notice.
We are having pictures taken on Veterans Day with our ultrasound photos for Christmas cards and that's how we are going to announce to most people and social media, but I don't think we will tell everyone else until the first or second week of December..until then, I'm loving having this little secret with my close family and hubby!
So we told 6year old DSD last night at dinner and showed her the ultrasound picture, thought she could keep a secret for two days lol. Planned to tell my inlaws tomorrow. However...DSD was talking to MIL today about what she wanted for Christmas. She said "I really want those hatchimal twins!" MIL "Really, why don't you ask Daddy and T for real twins" DSD "No there is only one in T's belly, I saw a picture". Lol so that happened, everybody is thrilled and it was way cute.
Took our super nerdy announcement photo at the Harry Potter festival today! My wife drew the “Griffinclaw” part. Lol. Saw another woman there in the same shirt too!
Re: How Will you or how did you announce??
Anyway, I made this shirt for my son and we just let him run around.
It’s from Gladditudes on Etsy and really good quality. They have a bunch of different designs if anyone is interested!
We won't announce publicly until at least 13 weeks, possibly but until after the quad screen at 16 weeks. I do photography on the side, so I will do our photo shoot again this time for announcement photos. Tripod and a shutter release are my friends. I bought DD and myself cute dresses and a small hanging chalkboard that I plan to write something like "Big sister May 2018". We'll take the photos at sunset at a local nature preserve.
We are going to set up a mini drum set next to my husbands set and I will be plugging my ears.
"Baby ______ making noise April 2018" . (My due date was moved to last day in April but I'm sticking with my May ladies.)
Married: 8/22/15
BFP #1: 8/22/17 | DS: 4/20/18
BFP #2: 7/14/19 | EDD: 3/18/20
My DH has basically told everyone he knows though!
TW:
I really didn't feel like being creative since in between DS and this babe I had a miscarriage and it was handled so insensitively by my family. I was only about 5 weeks and hadn't even told my DH. I had a cute plan since his birthday was in a couple weeks and wanted to surprise him. But then miscarried less than a week after finding out. It felt weird to tell all my family, by the way I lost a baby. So I was just going to heal and move on and after my DH and DS's birthdays tell him. I know my husband. He is not sensitive or emotional or empathetic and I knew telling him would not help me. (It didn't...) but basically the whole thing blew up at my sons first birthday party, everyone basically told me how I was horrible for how I handled it, and then ignored me for a few weeks. I've tried to forgive and move on but relationships are pretty much forever changed. So this time I basically just said we're pregnant and left it at that.
Married: 12/19/15
BFP: 9/4/17
EDD: 5/16/18
DD born 5/10/18
Postpartum Complications
BFP: 10/1/19
EDD: 6/12/20
12 weeks tomorrow so we took a trip to the pumpkin patch and came up with this. Caption says, "We're so excited to add another little pumpkin to the patch!"
First off you all are super creative. I've bought my hubs and I the mama and papa bear shirts to wear as Halloween costumes for an upcoming party.
However, I am struggling on how to tell one of my close friends. I've known her since kindergarten and she has been TTC for about 5 or 6 months. We talked about wanting to be pregnant at the same time and our kids being each others' first friend.The last time we talked about babies was right before my BFP. I don't want her finding out via social media but don't know how to approach the conversation.
Any advice for how to tell someone you care about but know they are going through struggles conceiving?
1. Telling some close family and friends that don’t know yet
2. Tell my boss and staff (I strategically moved my team meeting and setup a 1:1 with my manager the end of that 2nd week)
3. Announce that following weekend at my DD’s bday party. She’ll be 2 so she won’t get it or be mad that I stole her thunder haha. But I’d catch a ton of extended family and close friends in person and can’t wait to see the shock on some people’s faces.
4. Social media post.
Still have to run this by my husband but I think it should be good. I also wanted to include something in our Christmas cards, but I ordered them already and felt it was too early to commit that way so I just signed it “The *****ns”.
I'm impressed you've ordered Christmas cards!
i haven't even thought about Halloween yet, lol.
But I think my mom would kill me for what that's insinuating. She's very proper and I have family I'm friends with on FB. We haven't told friends or extended fam yet (sometime after 13 weeks) and then I'm not really sure if we will do a social media announcement because I'm so paranoid (but if we did we would post around Christmas, 20+ weeks).
Married: 8/22/15
BFP #1: 8/22/17 | DS: 4/20/18
BFP #2: 7/14/19 | EDD: 3/18/20
In two weeks we are going to visit my brother and sister in law in CT, we are going to wear "Mama" and "Dad" shirts and see how long until they notice.
We are having pictures taken on Veterans Day with our ultrasound photos for Christmas cards and that's how we are going to announce to most people and social media, but I don't think we will tell everyone else until the first or second week of December..until then, I'm loving having this little secret with my close family and hubby!