Spilling the beans on FB...

ourlittlelife

Does anyone have any cute or creative ways to tell people on FB that you're pregnant?

malt

My husband is pretty much forbidding me from doing that.

eris1995

I'll be posting a picture of DS in a "big brother" shirt. 

Beamer816

malt:

My husband is pretty much forbidding me from doing that.

This. I'm trying to explain to DH that someone is bound to write Congrats on one of our walls. But he is adamant that no one posts anything about the baby on fb. Glad to know I'm not the only one .. lol

tmp-359758500007274

I've seen people just put pictures of the pg test or the ultrasound as their profile pic and wait for people to figure it out.

HeatherLilly2004

We plan to tell parents after our first u/s all together in person.

Extended family & close friends after we've completed our first trimester (via phone calls).

Then everyone else will find out on a need-to-know basis. 

So we won't be having an official announcement on FB - like the previous post, hubby just isn't into announcing personal stuff on FB.

skyejo

AndriaKay:

I've seen people just put pictures of the pg test or the ultrasound as their profile pic and wait for people to figure it out.

This is what I'm planning on doing.  I'll use an ultrasound pic and will probably update my status to something baby related. 

KNS_61805

I'm going to post a picture of dd in her big sister shirt.

Aliliv

You could write obscure ways that people refer to pregnancy.  For instance:  "your name" is up the duff.  or, "your name" is full.  The one that people finally figured out was "my name's" eggo is preggo.

LCB34

AndriaKay:

I've seen people just put pictures of the pg test or the ultrasound as their profile pic and wait for people to figure it out.

Please don't put a picture of a pee stick on FB.  As cute and awesome as we think it is, most people just think it is disgusting and a bit TMI.

And u/s picture is much better, IMO.

malt

My sister in law is pregnant and she disabled her wall for 13 weeks. When she spilled the beans to her close friends, she wasn't ready for them to start congratulating her on FB.  Then around 15 weeks, she posted a cute pic w/ my brother with his hands around her belly, kind of implying the pregnancy. Then she opened up the wall for comments and everyone who knew congratuated her and the beans were spilled on FB. I think it's inevitable that people who know you will make comments on facebook, but if you don't want people to know before 13 weeks, you can block your wall.  I may do that.

brideatbeach

eris1995:

I'll be posting a picture of DS in a "big brother" shirt. 

We did this with dd.

kbrew2622

I was going to take a picture of a bun in our oven (with the oven door open) but the beans got spilled for me, unfortunately!

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i *shudder* when i see people overshare on FB about their pg.  just make sure you are not one of  *those*

jennapace

My husband uploaded the recording of the heartbeat at 11 weeks 3 days and posted it as his status.  I think it was a cute way to announce it to the facebook world.

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beccer

AndriaKay:

I've seen people just put pictures of the pg test or the ultrasound as their profile pic and wait for people to figure it out.

 

We plan on posting our u/s picture after our appoint this week (as long as everything goes well.  fingers crossed!) 

Hilamarie01

love that idea! sorry it didn't work out for you.

tholtmeier

Our family and really close friends already know.  We'll tell everyone else after our first ultrasound (week 10) and then after the first trimester, i'm planning to post a picture of our u/s and as a status update write "oh baby, it's going to be a hot summer".

I have had a couple of people write something about it on my wall not realizing we were not announcing it to the world, yet.  I'm hoping I deleted the comments soon enough as no one has asked me about it.   

K.a.T.e

We started telling friends this weekend.  I disabled my wall in anticipation so that no comments will appear.

I don't plan on "outing" myself on fb.  

max1563

My status was quick and cute...

"Is it a boy or a girl? We will find out somewhere around August 28th"

People commented and congratulated, I also made sure all my family and important people already knew so no one was upset about finding out via FB lol.

I didn't want to put my U/S pic up, I think it seems a little weird,..I don't know, it's really personal for my DH and I and close friends and fam!

I left it at that.

treala05

After we've told family and close friends, I might post something like "Roses are red, violets are blue, we're expecting baby #2" on Valentine's day. Haven't decided yet.

carissaryback

I never thought of a pee stick being disgusting, but now that someone mentioned it, it IS rather gross!  Everyone knows what you did on that stick.

I think by the time I would post something on FB, everyone will already know.  I am already getting secret "i've heard the news!" comments that I have to delete. 

MegT21

We took a picture of our new "snowman" family we made!

There was my DH (the bigger snowman), me (the smaller snowman), and out whittle snowman between us! We figured people could just figure it out on their own