If you're doing a Facebook announcement

chicsub · August 2010

When are you doing it?

We had a wedding this weekend with pretty much all of our closest friends, so they all know now as well as my immediate family/aunts/grandma. I'm debating whether or not to do it later this week or wait until I'm around 20w.

Tarah716 · August 2010

Do it when you feel comfortable - I announced mine at 11 weeks because pretty much everyone knew by then.

soontobemrs.boulet · August 2010

I've been debating on when and I think iI am going to announce later this week after our NT Scan.

aMaNdAp12 · August 2010

I planned to do it last Friday at exactly 13 weeks and here we are on Monday - haven't done it yet - def not ready to at this point!

mrstorrestobe · August 2010

I'm thinking about doing it after our NT scan as well. It is on Thursday this week and I'll be 12 weeks and 5 days then. A lot of people already know, but not even close to half of my friends on facebook.

jayellekay · August 2010

We were going to wait until end of first tri, but ended up announcing on FB at 7 weeks! lol DH was telling everyone anyway, and I was tired of telling people "keep it off facebook!" (How dumb, when they all knew anyway, for the most part, so we just blabbed!)

MrsMoher · August 2010

We have a few more family members to tell and then I will tell work (my boss knows, but no one else yet) and finally at the end of the 1st tri, my last priority is FB.

March2011Mama · August 2010

I have an ultrasound on Sep 13th, the same day I turn 12 weeks. I will shout out to the FB world after that!

Mrs.Bunches · August 2010

We'll be doing it tomorrow after the doc appt (assuming it's still all good, I have no reason to think otherwise, I'm still just cautious tho!). All our family and our friends we talk to most often already know. It's just more of a "we're going to shout it to the world" thing for the people we occassionally exchange comments with on FB.

thebevmeister · August 2010

I announced at 9 weeks, after we heard the HB. Yes, it was early, but we were so excited, and so many people already knew.

scherpha · August 2010

I agree with PP - post to FB when you are comfortable. I will post around week 13. All of my good friends and most of my coworkers know so it is only a few who don't know, but I feel better at that point.

My only two cents is to not make it a game. You may have a friend or friend of a friend who has struggled with TTC. While it is not your fault (at all), you can be careful not to hurt anyone anymore. GL to you!

darvade · August 2010

for some reason i am keeping it off facebook. a lot of people know already. facebook has so many acquaintances that i dont want to share this with yet. i want to keep it close. my DH and i figured we put on facebook after we know if its a boy or girl... so about 20weeks. plus there are people we want to make sure we tell in person or by phone, i dont think facebook should be the news source for all things. but thats just me.

Twinkz · August 2010

We're having all of our close friends over for my birthday and we're going to tell them then. Then either that next day we'll tell everyone or on my birthday we will. I have an Ob appointment on my birthday so we'd wait til after the appointment.

Spin313 · August 2010

I will probably do it soon after the NT u/s

NickelC35 · August 2010

All of my close friends and family we are telling in person or by phone. I probably wont announce my pregnancy on fb until after the big 20 week ultrasound and we find out the gender, we did this with #1 too. Most people will know by then that I want to know, and all the other acquaintances can find out when we find out the sex of the baby if they even care.

ruchemist · August 2010

We announced somewhere around 10 weeks, but like PP said, you should announce it to the world when you're ready.

victoriaps · August 2010

I haven't decided yet whether or not I will post it on FB. I have told very few people - my parents, El Hub's mom, two friends (who I wouldn't have told but had to cancel travel plans we had tentatively made), my brothers (and I wouldn't have even told them, but one of my brothers had a heart attack and bypass surgery last week, so I felt compelled). I had a miscarriage a few months before this pregnancy, so I am just very skittish.

Reading FB pregnancy announcements was incredibly painful after my miscarriage. And surprisingly, they're STILL painful, despite having an apparently healthy and normal pregnancy so far this time around. I feel anxiety when I see FB friends announce pregnancies just as soon as they pee on a stick, and I feel jealous when I see friends who already have three, four, five children saying they are pregnant again. I completely acknowledge this as my issue (which I am working through) and not theirs, but at the same time, I don't want to put anyone else through the pain I've gone through. I don't know how many of my FB friends are discreetly going through their own infertility issues, and I want to be as respectful as possible. If I do announce on FB, I don't think it will be for quite some time.

Wow, this ended up long! At any rate, you are the one who will be receiving the feedback from your announcement, so my thinking is that you wait until you feel ready. If you aren't sure you're ready, then wait a day. Can't hurt!

optimist13 · August 2010

i'm totally with you on this, after my m/c it was so painful i hid a lot of people on fb who posted pics of their new babies and kids and pregnancy updates day after day. i had been considering a fb announcement, but maybe i'll just do a mass email.

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