Do you have to send birth announcements?

CourtneyR2N · May 2010

Is that something that has to be done? I don't think we got one for either one of DH's cousins that had babies last year, and I didn't think anything about it.

Is that one of those things that if it isn't done you are looked down upon? Or can it be skipped without being noticed?

shall923 · May 2010

I have never received nor do I plan to send a birth announcement. That being said, when my niece was born my mom and I bought Hershey bars that had a pink wrapper and said Heresheis instead of Hershey. It has my nieces birth stats in the nutritional section. It was really cute. We gave them to people we knew but didn't mail anything.

Caymandreams · May 2010

I don't plan on doing them because pretty much everyone will have seen her before we even leave the hospital. But I will send out newborn pictures once we have them made. Birth announcements are just excessive IMO unless your family doesn't live near by.

Verbose · May 2010

I am not a fan of birth announcements. I think they're a little AW, but to each their own...

Jodi2008 · May 2010

You definitely don't have to do them. We'll do them in combination with our Christmas cards-- if the timing didn't coincide with the holidays though I'm not sure I'd bother with them.

mamafoxX2 · May 2010

We do them in our family because everyone is 'scrap-happy' and needs something for their scrapbook pages. They have all the info so people aren't e-mailing and calling asking "what was her birthdate??"

Dobie_Mama · May 2010

Nope. Totally up to you whether you do them or not.

littleanomaly · May 2010

We're doing them. Our family lives 6 hours away and it's likely that no one but us will see him for the first several days and even then it will only be grandparents.

On top of that, as a pp said, some people in my family are scrapbookish (not me, I like the paper but thats it. My mom is in charge of the scrapbook, she was really excited about it until I told her it was unlikely that I did anything with it).

yeshuahamasshiah · May 2010

I would think they are only necessary if you have relatives that will not get to see you and the baby right away.

We sent them out for DS when we adopted him since our families live in other countries and also because ,many did not know we were in the process of adopting. Many family members have not met him yet, so at least they are aware of his existence. We plan to send them out with this new baby since it will only be DH and I that will get to see the baby until Chrismukkahanza time! Don't want people all surprised when we show up with two kids.

Mt2G1012 · May 2010

Jodi2008:
You definitely don't have to do them. We'll do them in combination with our Christmas cards-- if the timing didn't coincide with the holidays though I'm not sure I'd bother with them.

We send out photo cards to family and friends every Christmas. This year we will be including out new LO on them.

superMiller · May 2010

I don't think you HAVE to do anything. Plus a lot of mom's are so busy they never really get done. I will probably send a few to people who live far away who wouldn't get to see the baby. They'll end up in most people's trash anyway, and that's just a waste of money.

MSC03 · May 2010

We're not sending them, but I'll consider holiday cards with our baby's photo on them.

But who knows--I've never sent holiday cards before, so why start now? ;-)

emilydholmes1 · May 2010

We are doing them because all of the family on my side is in PA and we are in MS so we barely see them maybe 1 time every couple of years.Also, most of my close friends do not live close to me anymore either. I could completely understand not bothering with them if all of your friends and family are close.

Verbose · May 2010

MrsSummitCounty:

We're not sending them, but I'll consider holiday cards with our baby's photo on them.

But who knows--I've never sent holiday cards before, so why start now? ;-)

For years my husband and I have been bombarded with Christmas cards with baby pictures. A few years ago we decided to start posing our dogs in tacky-as-can-be hats/outfits and posing them in front of the tree for our personalized Christmas cards. It's a big hit! This year we're trying to decide how to pop the baby in (and keep it funny).

CourtneyR2N · May 2010

With thanksgiving and christmas just a few months after the EDD I am sure we will see everyone.

I might do a few for my grandmother and aunt that live out of state, but's pretty much it.

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