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Poll: Birth Announcements - yes or no?
In this age of the internet where people announce births via e-mail and facebook, I'm wondering, did you or will you send out birth announcements?
And, if yes, did you send them after you'd already sent out an announecment e-mail?
Would love to hear thoughts on this...
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Re: Poll: Birth Announcements - yes or no?
i'm a traditionalist, so i say yes
we did send out an email, but i love sending mail- we even send valentine cards 
i also think its fun for the baby book.
i definitely receive fewer and fewer, so i don't think anyone expects you to send them, but they are still fun!
I had every intention of sending out announcements when our first was born. We had a friend of ours do pictures and everything.... then my MIL decided that she would send out announcements to her friends and family members with the pictures she'd taken at the hospital (me looking my finest I'm sure). She did this thinking she was being helpful. Needless to say it really p*ssed me off (fuming mad!)! They had the wrong DOB and the wrong spelling of the middle name (my family's name- of course). So after all this happened I just decided that I didn't want to do them anymore. All our friends knew DS was born so I didn't do them.
For baby #2 I will probably send out an email card or something to let people know when s/he is born.
Final note, I love getting announcements from others, but after a week or so, I feel guilty about throwing them away. I have so much clutter in my house already, that I just can't keep them.
32 years from now, no one will probably have facebook or have saved the email. But I still have a copy of my own birth announcement. It meant the world to my grandparents that we sent them one for Abby. As much as I like to throw things away and hate mementos, there are some things worth preserving on real paper.
Think of all the people you know who lost ALL their pictures when their computer died.
Ditto Mollie 100%! We did an email annoucement (I just couldn't help myself. You just want to AW your baby to everyone) and then we mailed formal announcements at around 4 weeks. I have the announcements mounted in her baby book.
Mollie - your EDD is my DD's b-day!! :-) Great Day! It's also Shakespeare's birhday and death day. interesting.
i fully intended to, but it didn't happen. because of my crazy swelling, it took a few weeks until i was able to write again, and by that point it felt too late and was trying to pull-off hosting christmas.... i really wanted to, though! i even had a design in mind, a play on the word "new" using her birth picture and the new year.... *sigh*
we did send out an email birth announcement the day of her birth.
and we did have a sip-and-see with an evite when she was 2 months old.
We send them out as well. I love getting them and I think it is still important to the older generation. Not that the younger one doesn't get it, they do, lots of people love getting fun mail, but it's just different imo.
From a biz perspective, I sell a lot of them, a good portion of my newborn clients buy announcements from me....I think when you pay money to have pro photos done it is natural to want to show your new baby off!
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I didn't send them. I feel guilty when I get one because what are you supposed to do with them anyway? They hang on our fridge for a week then I throw it away.
I just sent out an email.
An e-mail went out as soon as we got to a computer after our girls were born. To me, yeah, I guess that's a birth announcement, but its really just giving the news quick and dirty. (and the pictures sent in those e-mails, although I've always thought they are adorable, when I look back on them are just smooshy red newborns!)
I love getting good pictures done and mailing a real birth announcement. Although I admit I didn't do the whole formal letter-press card thing -- instead I designed a postcard with the info and lots of pictures and had it printed and mailed by amazingmail.com. (I love that website -- just enter your addresses and then you never have to worry about stuffing envelopes or any of that jazz).
and I love to receive them!
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I do not remember if we even emailed an announcement or not. I think we just called the immediate phone list when she was born and then let it spread.
We did send out a paper announcment though. I got a lot of positive feed back from them. I did not do a formal one with a pro photographer or anything. We took the pics and made them ourselves (on PS). I think they turned out pretty great. I also LOVE getting paper announcements of any kind, but especially the ones with photos. Most people in our circle of friends send them out.
maybe it's just me, but i usually only send a gift if i get a paper announcement? i usually hang the announcement on our fridge and love looking at the little babies for a few months before tossing, as well, so we decided to do both an email and then a formal announcement a month later.
We sent an e-card through Hallmark. It allowed us to post photos of him along with all his stats. I paid for the deluxe one ($3) so I could pre write it an just fill in the details later. It also allowed us to save it, so I have a CD of it in his babybook.
For us it worked out wonderfully. He had to stay in NICU for 4 days, so only the grandparents got to see him. The pictures allowed everyone to see him even if the couldn't in person. It also let family out of state see him right away.