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Creative ways to announce?

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Wanna announce baby #2 at DS 1st birthday party! Any ideas on creative ways we can announce it? I will be 20 weeks and we've told no one yet(hope my mom doesn't get mad)!

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  • sweetpea2003sweetpea2003 member

    You could hand out cookies as favors that are pink or blue, you could do a little gender cake (or make DS's smash cake a gender cake), you could have DS in his birthday outfit but then change him into a "big brother" shirt after he gets cake all over himself, you could think up a party game that somehow reveals that you are expecting, you could make "save the dates" for #2s 1st birthday party in 2013...   

    I'm out of ideas :).

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  • MGM81MGM81 member

    Well, if you are set on announcing it at ds birthday you can have him open a big brother shirt (toys r us or babies r us has some if no time to order one off esty) or open a frame with the ultra sound pic or something like that.....I would keep it simple.

    *If it were me I would just celebrate the 1st born birthday not baby #2. But if you are 20 weeks you are showing so I guess share the news.

    People may have options about baby #2 (which is fine and who cares what people say) but you may not want to deal with all that on your child's birthday which is their day.....to me.

    I hate that silly gloaming feeling what the Mother's & Mother In Laws may say. It scared me to tell them even as a married adult - we found out we were pregnant again when our 1st was 6 months old....



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  • sweetpea2003sweetpea2003 member

    Fwiw, I was about 20 weeks pregnant when my DD turned 1 and I was REALLY showing.  Like, there was no way we could have hidden it that long.  My body was like "oh yea, we just did this" and BAM I was showing at like 10 weeks.  I struggled to hide it until 13 weeks at work.  We considered doing a gender reveal at DD's birthday party (since we had just found out) but decided to keep it all about her.

    I also agree with PP that you want the first birthday to be about your 1 year old and not overshadowed by #2. 

    But good luck either way!  I think there are some classy ways to announce toward the end of the party that won't take the attention away from your birthday boy. 

    Married 6/28/03

    Kate ~ 7/3/09 *** Connor ~ 11/11/10

    4 miscarriages: 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014

    *~*~*~*~*

    No more TTC for us. We are done, and at peace, as a family of 4.

    "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” — Charles Dickens

     

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