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1st Trimester
Spilling the beans on FB...
Does anyone have any cute or creative ways to tell people on FB that you're pregnant?
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Re: Spilling the beans on FB...
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
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.
This is what I'm planning on doing. I'll use an ultrasound pic and will probably update my status to something baby related.
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.
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.
We did this with dd.
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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We plan on posting our u/s picture after our appoint this week (as long as everything goes well. fingers crossed!)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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