The Big Reveal

lulam13

Have you revealed your pregnancy to family and or friends yet? Please share!

drkoyya

We didn’t do a fun reveal to family and friends, we just called parents and send friends the photo of the ultrasound. 

I’m getting excited about the social media reveal. It’s going to be a video/story because this is 5 years in the making. A little preview... after 1 1/2 years of dating my DH asked for “my 5 year plan for us.” I’m very Type A and already had a plan. Back in March 2015 I told him that I’d earn my PHD in 2016, we’d get engaged in 2017, married on September 1, 2018, and have our first kid in 2020. Surprisingly this didn’t scare him off 😅 Now, almost 5 years later, everything happened like I said it would. 

I’m also getting excited to reveal the pregnancy to my students with a pregnancy Halloween T-shirt. 

chewie5990

My parents have been in Italy for the last 2 weeks and they come home next Saturday. Everyone is coming over for a big dinner so we are planning to spill the news then. So far absolutely no one knows and it’s been so hard! MHs family lives out of state so we will share via Facetime Monday evening after our first appointment. I know my in-laws are going to be so excited and can’t wait to share with them! 

I’m still not sure when I’m going to share with work or my students. I will probably tell my principal sometime in the next week or two and go from there. Last week at a work outing 4 different people asked when we were planning on having another and I felt so bad lying about it and giving noncommittal answers. 

ieles2531

We told our families and most of the moms in DD’s class know. We’re going to wait to tell extended family and friends until after we get our echo at 18 weeks on December 2. Then, if baby is healthy, we will do a special “rainbow baby” theme announcement. 

Austenista

This is baby #3 which while we are super excited and I know some will be happy for us, it is kind of a muted thing this time around. We told my SIL last night because she sniffed us out and kind of guessed, and I told my BFF who just miscarried to be respectful, but other than my BMB’s no one else knows. I’m thinking about waiting until we know the sex and maybe doing like a Christmas ornament for our families or something as an announcement. I think my sister suspects though and thus my secret may not hold. Idk if I will do a fb announcement this time or not. 

bananapanda

My family and close friends already know.  I think I'm going to announce at work on Halloween during our costume contest by showing up in a skeleton shirt with a baby skeleton on it and just see how quickly people notice lol I'll also probably announce on facebook around Halloween but haven't decided how just yet.

babyfoxden10

My immediate family knew in the first couple weeks and my grandma since this is her first great grandchild! My cousins, aunts and uncles all now know too since word travels fast here. 

I’m waiting for my 12 week US on Thursday to tell my friends, and my husband and I are taking a trip to our campus where he proposed to take an announcement picture to text out. I won’t be doing it over social media though. I sometimes feel like those who might be struggling don’t need another Facebook announcement.  

I’m still debating when to tell work. I’m sure my students will be super excited I’m just hoping their parents and the admins will be too 🤞🏼

pirateduck

There’s already a thread on this.  I’m not sure if there’s some way we can merge them.  The Bump isn’t always exactly user friendly.

peachnectarine

This is my 3rd, so I will just be telling people, nothing special. But I do want to do something fun for my kids. I was thinking maybe a scavenger hunt with clues. I’m waiting until my next appointment where I will hear the heartbeat for the first time. 

lea-v3

This is our 3rd.  **TW** We've had two losses prior and the first one my mom commented that it "was for the best" because I had no business having more children. Whatever the f&#^@ that's supposed to mean. We didn't even tell anyone about the second loss. DH took the kids to the fair while I had D&C on my own at the hospital. *End TW**  I know we'll have some negative reactions from a few family members. We'll keep this one to ourselves as long as possible. I recently took a break from social media, so there probably won't be any announcement there either.

*Edit - I would like to add that I do like to hear/see how others announce! I don't have a problem with it, we just don't seem to be in that phase/environment over here (if that makes sense)