The Announcements Thread!

asf0613

Let's gather here to discuss announcement ideas (IRL and online) and timings! 



Have a question or want to run your potential announcement by the group? Post it here! 
Lurking to see how others announced? You're in the right spot! 
Just want to brag about how you did it? We're here for that too!  

PLEASE OMIT ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM YOUR POST including anything you don't want living on the internet for eternity

gusgus14

Woohoo! We’ve been slowly telling close family and friends and this week we told our companies and tonight we posted an announcement on social media! We announced around 12 or 13 weeks last time and this time I’m just shy of 12 (Saturday). I just had another ultrasound on Monday and all was good so we felt good about telling everyone we hadn’t already. Originally we were going to post on Halloween with our due date on a pumpkin  and say something like “No tricks here! Baby M due May 2021!” Ended up switching gears when we found out there are two.

I’ll add a picture in the spoiler of what I posted on social. We just got a set of those “OH BABY” balloons but I got an extra one to say “OH BABY BABY” instead. Captioned it: “Adding not just one but two to our crew. Our TWINS are due May 2021!”

asf0613

@gusgus14 this is so perfect!! enjoy all the love you'll get from the announcement!!

texas_t

@gusgus14 Too cute! It's so fun to celebrate with friends and loved ones!

My husband made a video compilation of our hiking photos where I was wearing our other two kids and the end says "the next adventure is yet to come" with the sound of the babies heartbeat playing over it.

gusgus14

@asf0613 @texas_t thank you!

@texas_t that’s so adorable!

asf0613

@texas_t i love that! so personal!

mimser

I don't know what we'll do in terms of announcements or even if we'll officially announce at all. Frankly a lot of people know at this point: our parents and siblings, all of my SOs friends, 3 of my close friends, my boss.... With our last loss, which was 2nd trimester, we talked about it with everybody and now it just doesn't feel so required for us at this point to keep it a secret until a safer time, because realistically, a safer time for us really is viability. And that is late to find out, at least for people who are close to us. But at the same time, I'm a bit sad we're not doing any fun announcement! So we'll see, would it be weird to send a card even though they already know?

asf0613

@mimser for your family and those you are close with, i think a card would be a nice keepsake, even if its not a surprise at that point!

texas_t

@mimser What about something like this???

You might have heard a rumor,
we're confirming that it's true,
our little family's growing,
we'll now be three, not two! 

mimser

@texas_t Oh I like this 🤗

yellingbanana

Ok, I hope this isn’t too much...I laughed super hard when I saw this on Reddit... 

brynn_mamaof4

I literally plan to Kylie Jenner my pregnancy 🤣 ok maybe not that hardcore... right now only two of my friends know. My fiancé told his family in Long Island. I’ll tell my dad soon, maybe around Thanksgiving/Christmas. All
my other friends and family I’m really not seeing much of because of COVID anyway... I only have Instagram, so I’m just going to keep it head up, mostly of my other kids... then just post a picture of me in May with my brand new baby, surprise! Haha. I don’t know why I don’t want to announce this time. Maybe because I have three already... idk. I just want to keep this little baby ours. 

dlynn484

I saw this one I plan to use. Funny story. I’m getting the boys’ pictures taken next week and sent this to my friend about recreating it. She literally gave me no reaction. It was my subtle way of sharing the news. I’m almost convinced she didn’t even look at the details of the picture. 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

ec1212

There’s a woman on the April ‘21 BMB who shared hers, and it’s her making a s’more over a fire pit with cute wording about “s’more love” coming next year. I might try to do something like that when hubby and I go to a cabin upstate for my bday in a couple weeks. I’ll use different wording, but I thought it was super cute. ❤️

yellingbanana

@brynn_mamaof4 I am actually feeling the exact same way, also #4 here. We’ve recently told immediate family, and our children have permission to tell their friends. But I also only have Instagram, and was planning on posting an 8 or 9 months pregnancy picture before I have the baby! 

I don’t want a baby shower, I’ve had enough,  and wouldn’t due to covid19. So that works out! I just feel like it’s a lot of hassle, I don’t enjoy the games, and I don’t enjoy being the center of attention either.

littlelibelula

@brynn_mamaof4 Lol, I would totally do that if covid lasted until May, but I'll probably see people by December or January. The easy thing with virtual meetings is hiding everything below your face. 

If I can last until I find out the gender, I might just change my profile pic and insert a pregnant belly or an extra kid of the right gender. And then just wait and see if anyone notices. 

brynn_mamaof4

@yellingbanana I’m glad I’m not alone! I won’t do a baby shower either since I’ve had three (the last two were just “sprinkles”). And maybe I want to avoid the “you know how babies happen right?!?” Type of comments lol. 

@littlelibelula I’ll def run into some people, but I have a lot of out of state friends too so I’ll def surprise (most) people when I post a baby in May! Lol

ckmb_1250

We carved pumpkins today and sent this to family. I’ll likely post it to social media sometime next week. My last pregnancy, I was really hesitant to make an announcement and didn’t until much later, so I’m getting used to the idea of celebrating a bit more this time
(my husband has a beard 😂)

texas_t

@ckmb_1250 so so cute!!! I love it!

mrosek91

We're not going to do a social media announcement, I actually only got FB about a year and a half ago, and rarely use it. Still trying to figure out how to tell friends and family, will probably just casually mention it when I'm talking to them anyway. Most of them expect it, it's really work I'm worried about telling, no one there will understand my life choices, and while I know it shouldn't bother me, I'm worried about their silent judgement.
@brynn_mamaof4 @yellingbanana a friend of mine just had her eighth (6 bio + 2 bonus) and didn't announce the pregnancy, only made a Facebook post after the baby was born. Some of the reactions were very funny.

gusgus14

@ckmb_1250 cute!

spartan4life

@ckmb_1250 so cute!!

yellingbanana

@mrosek91 and @brynn_mamaof4 the judgement is real! The people who know have been trying to tiptoe around finding out if this #4 was on purpose. And it was planned, I had to get my mirena removed and everything. Their shocked faces are entertaining, and also the reason why I’ll just wait till the end to announce. 

My daughter plays soccer with a family who just had their 7th, so I feel like 4 isn’t that much when compared. They didn’t announce their 7th, we saw them at the end of one season, and when we saw them next, they had a new baby! 6 girls and the new one is a boy, I like to think of them as the opposite of the Weasley family 😉

ruby0902

@ckmb_1250 - I notice the Pirates cap! I'm in the 412 area 😁

alarelish

I plan on wearing some sort of “eating for two” shirt to my fiancé’s parents for Thanksgiving to announce it to close family, and maybe a “promoted to grandparent” type gift. This is their first grandchild, so I know they’ll be over the moon. Only 1-2 very close friends know. We haven’t had an ultrasound or Doppler yet so I’m extremely hesitant to tell people yet. I have a good amount of friends who aren’t local on social media, so I plan on doing some sort of post before Christmas if all goes well. Probably just the ultrasound and a stuffed animal with some Christmas lights 🧐

grogu

I posted this on my social media. 
We live in a 300 square foot tiny house with our 4 year old and two cats. It's gonna be squishy haha

bex_and_her_baby

That's super cute!

nbcarlson

Here is our announcement, I'm sure I should blur kids faces or whatever but I'm not private on social anyways lol. 

nbcarlson

^^^also hopefully that's not huge, I'm on mobile! 

spartan4life

@nbcarlson cute!!

ckmb_1250

@nbcarlson that’s so cute!!

asf0613

not doing anything on social media yet, but going to include this little pic with Thanksgiving cards to my grandmothers,aunts and some extended family...because we aren't sure who we will wind up seeing for the holidays and id rather social media not be the first thing they see

gusgus14

@asf0613 aw that's so cute!!

ckmb_1250

Is anyone thinking of gender reveals yet? We’re not the type to do anything big, but since we’re not seeing family for the holidays we wanted to do something over zoom/face time. We have 2 nephews and a niece (4,6,1) & we’re thinking something like playdough that turns pink when you squish it, or mystery markers where they can scribble and see pink & be involved. We’re not totally sold on either idea so was curious if anyone was doing something similar!

spartan4life

@ckmb_1250 we did ours already! When we had DS's bday party (mostly over FaceTime because MIL was sick) we wrapped a little sister outfit and had him open it as one of his presents. Everyone was surprised because most of them didn't even know we knew the sex yet!

ckmb_1250

@spartan4life aww how cute!! 👏🏻

dlynn484

Here’s our announcement. My youngest fell asleep on the car ride to the park so the stunned look on his face is really more just him being half asleep. It worked out though. 😄

dlynn484

This is the extent of our “gender reveal” for social media. A few have caught on but I’m happy with the subtlety of it. It was actually my oldest’s idea so I went with it. ☺️

spartan4life

@dlynn484 So cute!!

mkc3888

@ckmb_1250 I'm thinking of it.  I'm likely going to be the only one at that appointment because it will be at my MFM office and he isn't allowing anyone but patients at the visits.  I'm thinking about ordering 6 cupcakes and have 3 with blue filling and 3 with pink and just leave the one that doesn't fit in the car.  We want something small with just us and not our parents and all that.  We do want to make it special for our 4 your old though. 

ckmb_1250

@mkc3888 nice! We did doughnuts with icing just for us as a family. I think we are doing the playdough idea for extended family since I tried it and it worked!