Pregnancy Announcement

ladystout08

@libertymomrn me too! I'm a committee person for my local party and I work on a congressional campaign! Even if we don't use it to announce, I'm going to have the onesie made anyway. lol 

BitterBetty12

@PolarBear517 Our DDs share the same birthday!!

Also team torn. Not sure if I want to announce around 15 weeks like I did last time (after I'm comfortably out of the first tri and have the NIPT results) or wait until after the a/s.

I want to do some sort of picture with DD in it. We're going on a beach vacation mid July so I'm thinking of taking a picture on that trip and then using it when I'm ready.

emmaaa

I'm not sure what we will do. We announced on social media for DD after the a/s just so I really only had to make one big announcement. Friends and family already new at that point. DH and I took a picture together and I cradled my bump and captioned with being excited to add a baby girl to the family. Then I followed with a side by side picture of me and DH comparing our bumps lol. 

This time we may do something similar if DD would cooperate for a quick family picture and then have all three of us comparing bellies? IDK

ladystout08

We're going to the beach with my aunt next weekend and I have an U/S right before we go. If all goes well, we'll tell them during our trip (plus they'll notice I'm not drinking). Debating how to tell them. I don't want to put DS in a big brother shirt because I don't want him to know yet. 

Maybe I'll get a six pack of baby bottles and say I brought us a six pack. lol 

libertymomrn

ladystout08 said:

@libertymomrn me too! I'm a committee person for my local party and I work on a congressional campaign! Even if we don't use it to announce, I'm going to have the onesie made anyway. lol 

Sounds like we have a lot in common! I’m a precinct chair, state and county delegate and am currently volunteering for a US Senate campaign in my area. Fun stuff! It’s fun to meet someone else who’s so involved!

oaklandava

We are likely going to put on our family brew thru shirts (from a beach we go to) and have our DS hold up the infant sized one we picked up and take a picture saying "we're adding one more brew to our crew". (It's a drive through convenience store, they sell snacks, drinks, sodas, and yes beer). 

tosh24

Anyone with older children give any thought to how you will tell them? Mine are almost 12 and 7, so definitely old enough to "get it". DD will be ecstatic because she loves babies/kids. DS is a total mama's boy and he's going to be pissed lol. I'm thinking of having a book about our family made up through Costco or something and then have the last page be the u/s pic and the announcement. They can both read so it will be cute to have them read the book together. The only other idea I have is a scavenger hunt.

sparkymcgeee

@tosh24 we weren't planning on making it special for the kids. They were there through both of my losses last year so if we get to 2nd tri it's just a miracle and we will probably just tell them at dinner one night. They both want a baby brother or sister so badly that they will just be excited either way. 

mamadaisy13141619

@tosh24 we just sat them down on the couch and told them Mommy is having another baby. It didn't occur to me to do anything clever, lol. Oh well, haha.

tosh24

Yeah, I get that @sparkymcgeee. My kids know about the first loss and my older DD was pretty sad and really aware of how it affected me. We still talk about it. Neither of the kids know about the other two losses or our fertility treatments. I feel robbed of my ability to do fun announcements to family/friends/social media because of my TTC history, so I'd at least like to do something fun for the kids so we can celebrate together as a family after a really hard few years.

mamadaisy13141619

We did 4 pairs of converse tennis shoes with the kids birth years written in chalk underneath. Then another with just the baby's shoes and a romper I had made that said "Newest member of the "our last name" family and then Coming Soon written in chalk to the side. 

LCRbelle

Love everyone’s ideas! With DS we announced on thanksgiving. I wore a shirt that said there is a turkey in this oven. Waited until after first tri but was still so nervous to announce in case something went wrong! I’ve been pretty open about my TTC journey and losses so I would have shared on there anyway.  Just always feel more vulnerable when it’s out there.
For this pregnancy will probably get some sort of big brothers shirt to announce. Will wait until at least after first tri though! 

jandd2014

For those of you who are choosing not to announce on social media, are you specifically asking family and friends not to post anything either? With DD, I had a lot of complications and chose not to announce until after she was born- but my bff posted a few pics from my baby shower and I was pretty mad. With this one, I’m not planning to announce online until after the birth again, but I feel like I need to ask certain people not to post. 

achays11

We’ve already told our immediate families and closest friends. Since this is baby #3 and we didn’t tell them until I was 16 weeks with DD1, they’re always on high alert if I’m not drinking at specific events. 

We let DD1 tell everyone. We let her decide how too. And her four year old little mind wanted to tell everyone that she had a secret and then point to my belly. It was really sweet. 

As as far as social media, I’m still trying to figure that out. 

DLpanda08

@tosh24 we just told our kids after dinner the day school got out for the year. We didn’t make it a big thing because neither of my kids handles surprises or change very well due to their experience with foster care. 

However, if I had kids who would enjoy the surprise, I think a scavenger hunt would be fun! That or some kind of food related reveal like a note inside a fortune cookie. I also love the idea of using Pictionary like aunt Becky did on Full House.

tosh24

@DLpanda08 Totally get how a surprise might be pretty stressful in that situation. Love the fortune cookie idea! That is totally a contender! @jandd2014 change your settings on FB so that you have to approve anything you are tagged in or anything shared to your timeline before it gets posted. Or just change it so that nobody can tag you in anything or share anything to your timeline until after baby is born. I do that for my birthday every year because I don't want my mom to post her sappy, fake shit all over my timeline. It won't prevent the picture or post from showing up on the original poster's timeline, so if you share FB friends, those people will still see it, but it's just one more safeguard you can use in addition to telling people not to post anything pregnancy or baby related. *typo

captainmom5

Hi everyone. First time posting. We told SOs parents with a necklace at dinner. It was one with birthstones for the kids. We have 4 children, so she loved it! She was looking at all the birthstones and asked, wait, why is there 5? It was pretty great.

Nirolosa

We are telling friends and family in person or over the phone. I dumped most of social media a while ago. We might do the Starbucks pregnancy announcement for a giggle. Mainly because this babe literally loves it. I drink anything from there and my intense nausea goes away lol

LCRbelle

@Nirolosa what is the Starbucks pregnancy announcement!?

ashleyvictoria

We announced to everyone super early.  I felt it was better to have a support network in case anything should wrong.  I waited until almost 5 months last time (for various reason) and had no interest in doing so this time! I told my parents on Mother's Day and then announced on FB shortly thereafter.  I posted this announcement (name removed obviously) next to a picture of our 3.5 year old son wearing this shirt.  

kmvisioli

Hi! First post here I think I'm going to take a funny face picture of each of my boys, then one of myself, and just put a one-word caption on each photo: "Here We Grow Again!" We'll have 4 under 4, and I already look pretty pregnant, so I don't think we'll keep it secret much past the first appointment next week.

snackheart

jandd2014 said:

For those of you who are choosing not to announce on social media, are you specifically asking family and friends not to post anything either? With DD, I had a lot of complications and chose not to announce until after she was born- but my bff posted a few pics from my baby shower and I was pretty mad. With this one, I’m not planning to announce online until after the birth again, but I feel like I need to ask certain people not to post. 

I’m going to have to this time. We don’t do social media announcements in general and prefer to tell family and close friends in person or over the phone if we have to. My mom was great at keeping it on the low with my first two, but last year when my brother and his wife were expecting, my mom kept putting up thinly-veiled comments about it on Facebook. She knew what day they were planning to post their announcement but she totally blew up their spot. As a result she doesn’t get to find out this time until we’re ready for the world to know because I don’t necessarily trust her anymore not to post something even if I ask her not to.

peachy104

We called the family this week after a good u/s with hb at 10w. Our parents knew at 6w but we finally called my 4 brothers and sisters to let them know, plus my aunts and uncles.

@jandd2014 @snackheart I didn’t think I would have to tell my own parents not to post on Facebook (we told them early and said “we aren’t telling anyone else yet.”) and then my smom shared a video this week (publicly!) of a baby product and tagged me saying “[featherchicki] you might want to bookmark this.” So when I told my uncle I was pregnant he was like, “Oh I was wondering after she made that Facebook post.” 

Ugh!! I’m trying not to make a big deal out of it because she technically didn’t spill the beans. All our family and friends know we went thru a mc in January so they all know we want to start a family. But really?! She couldn’t have shared that privately?!

snackheart

@featherchicki yeah that is the kind of stuff I’m talking about. It’s not that my mom literally went on and posted “I’m going to be a grandmother again yippee!!!1!” but more those kinds of things and making references that it doesn’t take too much detective work to figure out what it means.

And yes your mom definitely could’ve done that privately lol

dmgallagher30

We just had my son's one year birthday party this past weekend with family. I wrapped up a big brother t-shirt and had it be the last gift he opened! Everyone loved the surprise. 

LCRbelle

I’m thinking of getting a shirt similar to this to announce!  I’ll still wait another month or so probably. 

DLpanda08

We announced yesterday on social media! I was really nervous about it because each person we have told felt like we were risking bad luck for some reason (PGAL brain is a convoluted mess). Literally an hour after I posted the picture I ended up falling down the stairs and spraining my wrist. Because I had back pain too, SIL who is an ER nurse recommended I go get checked out. Baby and I are totally fine. One positive thing was getting to see our little tater tot again and physically see that it is growing and changing. 

DS helped decorate our sign and I love it so much! 

gorgeousariel

@featherchicki I hate FB so much sometimes. I had commented on a Solly Baby giveaway- FB decided that my SIL needed to see my comment on the giveaway! I haven't told her yet so she was a little confused. 

snackheart

@DLpanda08 oh no! I’m sorry you hurt your wrist but glad to hear baby is doing great. The announcement is beautiful!

kmvisioli

Trying to choose which of these to share when we're ready!

galactickates

@kmvisioli -I love the top one! They are all great though!

LCRbelle

@kmvisioli I like the top one best! It took me forever to realize that the bottom picture was all three of your kiddos I thought it was all the same kid. Your boys look so alike! I’m sure your IRL friends would figure it out better than me though! 

galactickates

LCRbelle said:

@kmvisioli I like the top one best! It took me forever to realize that the bottom picture was all three of your kiddos I thought it was all the same kid. Your boys look so alike! I’m sure your IRL friends would figure it out better than me though! 

Omg... I didn't realize the bottom one was it's own announcement until I read this.  I thought they were 4 separate announcements to choose from and it all the same kiddo.  Wow They do look so alike!!! 

@kmvisioli both are really cute!!!

drabong88

@kmvisioli I like the top the best too. And agree your boys look so much alike! They are so adorable 

kaf1788

@kmvisioli I love the top one! Your boys are precious.

parentingishard

We announced on DD's 2nd birthday because all the grandparents were in town for it. We brought her cake out and it said "Happy 2nd Birthday Big Sister!". We aren't announcing on social media this time and plan to just naturally tell extended family and friends as it comes up. 

mrsmang

We announced on Father’s Day with some cute stuff for our dads. My FIL golfs and my dad collects beer bottles so these were very fun for them. 

amongthewildflowers

We didnt announce on social media for our first, and I don't have any plans to announce this time. A few pictures showed up of me pregnant last time that my mom and SIL posted, but they asked first and I said I didnt care. I plan to keep the whole thing under wraps this time and then just post a video of our daughter meeting her sibling (those are my absolute favorite videos) and then announcing the birth at that time.

I'm also doing the same thing as last pregnancy and not announcing at work. I find it oddly entertaining to get looks from people and see who the first person is who asks. I'm at a new company this time with a lot of interesting people, so it will be fun to find out who the brave one is to ask first. 

kmvisioli

@kaf1788 @galactickates @drabong88 @LCRbelle ha! Thank you! I will admit that when I was looking at the options last night I finally realized why so many people ask me if they are triplets. 

texasmommie

Majority of CLOSE family know. We still haven't told our 4 year old daughter. Every time I think I am ready, I start having issues and think something bad is happening, and I decide to wait longer.  I have another appointment soon, and if all is ok then, we will go ahead and tell her.

We should also know the gender next week. July 4th we are having several people over (family) and I thought about getting cupcakes and have the bakery fill them with blue or pink cream, and then announce to them "if they want to know what we're having, dig into the cupcake".  We do want to tell our daughter first if shes having a brother or sister, so want to come up with something small/simple for her. I was thinking of a confetti pull string thingy... Thoughts are still in the works.