Pregnancy Announcements

m3ganmc

I think I’m going to have the kiddos (girl and boy) play tug-a-war 

meggyme

Posted in randoms, but here’s my work announcement.

zionsmama85

Made our announcement today on SM. I love how it came out!

beachbaby0523

Love these announcements! Such fun and creative ideas! 

DH and I are traveling in Greece right now. When we return to SD (and once I’m in the  second trimester), we’ll tell family, close friends, and work. For social media, we plan on announcing using one or more of these shots we took while in Santorini: 

smf2018

My announcement is very similar @beachbaby0523 (Ps I love Santorini!)! I had captioned it with "Over the past two years with our travels to Greece, Iceland, Grand Canyon/Zion and Slovenia/Croatia/Montenegro, we weren't really sure how to top those adventures. In Slovenia, we figured out how... "

beachbaby0523

@smf2018 it’s perfect! Love it!!

3rdtime_charmed

We are announcing whenever the NIPT comes back. I’ve been clicking on the website every hour!!

lelkcot

@3rdtime_charmed that is SO stinking cute!!

3rdtime_charmed

FTM and those onesies are so little!! I cried when I opened them and MH is like “oh dear! Here we go!”

pipsqueak624

So this is what we are thinking and I have a Wonder Woman onesie or my made with love and science onesie (since ivf) or both but we are going to have this board and the 2 fur babies sitting on each side of the board with the onesie or both of the onesies up on the wall behind them. I’m just not sure of the wording on the board. What do you guys think? 

mamakeeg

Yay I’m excited to post mine turned out so cute (trust me her face is adorable behind the emoji) and I just basked in all the love and positive comments we received. I captioned this:

blessing our lives March 2019 

purpleteacher82

I sent the one with the onsie to my family and the other one to the staff at work. I didn’t have the energy to get very creative. 

kelleigh82

This was ours. Our 4 yr old is so excited!

BuckeyeNut05

We finally told the girls tonight and sent a reaction shot to immediate family (I don't announce personal things on my social media).  One was seriously underwhelmed and the other thinks I'm a liar. 

HoneyBear40

Here's the announcement I did yesterday at work...hilarious to watch some people try to figure it out!

mamakate1616

@HoneyBear40 that’s so cute, love the munchkin word play! 

HoneyBear40

@mamakate1616 Thanks! the sign was all the energy I could muster besides buying the donuts lol

thedaint87

Just posted on FB today.  DS loves books so it was perfect.  

mschanandlerbong1214

We added this picture to our rainbow announcement picture and announced yesterday at 16w.

JLaVO888

Pretty much half the staff at work figured it out before I was even 12 weeks so I just made a little calendar announcement that said “the rumors are true, baby number two is due”. It had a picture of DD in her best sis ever shirt And an arrow pointing to my due date. 

lisee923

Oh geez, sorry if these are huge.  We did a balloon reveal with DD.  We announced once we knew the sex.  DD was not happy, she was hard core team pink lol.  

ElleestJenn

@thedaint87 We did something similiar! We got the I am a big sister book and while I read it to her hubby took some pictures.

tiabelle319

Everyone knew we had been trying for a while and had undergone some infertility tests, but had quit trying when my mom passed earlier this year. Finding out we were pregnant was a HUGE surprise and I believe that somehow my mom helped us out with this. We told our family and close friends in person whenever possible, and then announced on social media by saying "We have a feeling Mama L was behind this.... Baby G*&^%$ is due March 2019".

indigoheightsblog

@tiabelle319 that is beautiful!!!! 

tiabelle319

thank you @indigoheightsblog

3rdtime_charmed

@tiabelle319 I was really touched by your story. I’m sure it’s even more important to those that knew her! What a wonderful tribute.

tiabelle319

Thank you!! @3rdtime_charmed it has been an emotional time for sure, but baby is definitely the silver lining.

HoneyBear40

@tiabelle319 Beautiful. I'm sure your Mom does have a hand in your blessing

AFM: I'm at a loss for what to do as far as an announcement. Well...I know what I'd like to do just not when to do it. We've told most people we would like to know and hope the word of mouth runs from there. My biggest issue is my brother gets married next weekend and while I don't want to trump his day it would be a great time to make sure the rest of my family knows. I want to do the typical social media announcement and I was thinking I'd post this weekend but is it weird to worry that my brother and/or his fiance will think I'm trying to steal their "pre-wedding thunder"? I feel like I need to add that he's getting married on my anniversary so he's stealing from me in a way but probably still not a good idea to post something about my anniversary and new baby on his wedding day LOL which takes me back to posting this weekend but is that too close to their wedding still?
If you've read my whining this far, do you have any thoughts?

meggyme

@honeybear40 I’d wait until after, unless you think you’ll give yourself away at the wedding. Or maybe call him and ask what he and his fiancé think.

HoneyBear40

@meggyme My brother & his fiance know along with my parents, grandparents and 2 aunts that will for sure be there...it's just a matter of the rest of the family (it's a large one). I'm thinking it's going to come up at some point but hopefully it's just not in a special moment of theirs. More I think about it more I'll just see if anyone says anything and wait to do a social media post until the following week.

kristimh80

@HoneyBear40 You're so nice!! I still can't believe they picked your anniversary for their wedding day. Guess you can always play it by ear. If you're already showing a little, it maybe easier when at the wedding to tell some more people that you may not see often, then after it announce. Whether it's announce before or after on social media, someone may get their panties in a wad. But I believe people can still be happy for them and you at the same time.

mayoduck

@honeybear40 I would talk to your brother and his fiance to see if they care either way. MH and I were in a similar situation and ended up announcing publicity 2 weeks before a family wedding because I wasn't sure I could hide my bump (or MIL could contain her excitement). We definitely didn't steal any thunder from the bride and groom who were too preoccupied with everyone coming up to them with congratulations to notice the smaller number also stopping by to say congratulations to us. Plus... Really, they are getting married on your anniversary? They can't expect you to completely ignore that and make it all about themselves, can they?

indigoheightsblog

@honeybear40 - I think one full week is plenty of time for you to get your social media congrats and let the dust settle before their wedding. If it were a day or two before, I'd say wait.... but If you post this friday or saturday you should be completely fine. it would be irrational of them to be upset at that.

HoneyBear40

@kristimh80 Yeah...more like biting my tongue. My mom told him he needed to ask me if it was ok. He didn't ask, he told me they were getting married on the same day and I needed to be ok with it cause his bride was already "freaking out" about changing the date. Can I add this was before they had even looked for a venue?? I was the nasty sister secretly praying their venue wouldn't be open on my date but no such luck!

@mayoduck You wouldn't think so but.....both are pretty selfish people in their own respects so I could see them completely forgetting it's my anniversary once it's the day-of.

bdesterhouse

@HoneyBear40 you are way nicer than I would be. I’d personally still announce it on my anniversary. Especially if I was told to be okay with my wedding date being taken by my brother and his fiancé. It’s not like a cousin, it’s close family. You have my vote for announcing it on said date... they just need to be ok with it, you’re stressed enough being pregnant as it is.

Confession: I’m not a very good Christian woman while pregnant when it comes to being graceful or nice when someone is rude or upsets me... especially family. 

sejica

Made it fb official today.

kristimh80

@HoneyBear40 I agree with what was just said...annouce when you want to! They never asked your permission or gave a crap what you think. Plus, didn't you say they are always fighting? So who knows what will happen if she'd that unstable lol

HoneyBear40

Thanks so much for all the input, ladies! I'm leaning towards announcing this weekend and enjoying the celebration and some of the attention on what should be only known as my day

maggiemadeit

You all are so cute with your announcements. I don’t use social media, and I have serious internet stranger danger so I blocked out her face, but I shared this with family after we got our NIPT results back. You’ll just have to take my word for it, my daughter is really cute under there...

mayoduck

@HoneyBear40 Good luck! As I said, I can't imagine they'll notice the attention you get day of because they'll have too much else to be distracted by!