phone tree

nkubon · September 2010

is anyone creating a phone tree? DH and i were watching the Back-up plan with JLo this past weekend, and there was talk about adding people to the phone tree. DH loves it, even though, it's not like we don't know who to call, but he likes it, because he feels like he'll forget someone so obvious. LOL.

anyhow i found some good templates on google, just google "phone tree template". anyone else doing this?

MrsYam · September 2010

My MIL is a blabber mouth, so everyone and their neighbor knew about 2 minutes after the baby was born.

Its a good idea though if you have a lot of OOT family/friends.

honey740 · September 2010

I think an email would be more efficient, no? And then you can add pics. Most hospitals have wifi now. I plan on bringing my net book and doing that.

holiday819 · September 2010

MrsYam:
My MIL is a blabber mouth, so everyone and their neighbor knew about 2 minutes after the baby was born.
Its a good idea though if you have a lot of OOT family/friends.

i wonder if this is a common MIL trait, like is there a class they go to? lol

a phone tree is a good idea, because it seems like whenever DH and i plan an event there is always that 1 person that we forget and don't mean to Huh?

nkubon · September 2010

not with my family. only my friend's check their emails daily. otherwise i'd do the email thing. also, i figure when getting to the hospital i'm not going to want anything to do with my laptop, and DH better not either. hahaha.

honey740 · September 2010

nkubon:
not with my family. only my friend's check their emails daily. otherwise i'd do the email thing. also, i figure when getting to the hospital i'm not going to want anything to do with my laptop, and DH better not either. hahaha.

My sister and her DH were pretty bored at night when the baby wasn't there and visitors weren't there,I gave them my netbook, at least they could surf the net. All my fam is up on email so that won't be an issue for us.

nkubon · September 2010

honey740:

nkubon:
not with my family. only my friend's check their emails daily. otherwise i'd do the email thing. also, i figure when getting to the hospital i'm not going to want anything to do with my laptop, and DH better not either. hahaha.

My sister and her DH were pretty bored at night when the baby wasn't there and visitors weren't there,I gave them my netbook, at least they could surf the net. All my fam is up on email so that won't be an issue for us.

yeah, i could see that. i think after the delivery, at night or whatever we would surely be on our laptops too, but i figure by then hopefully the word will have spread. hahaah.

atownpreggo · September 2010

That's a fun idea!!

MaggieEterno · September 2010

I would not leave for the hospital without my laptop! Believe it or not I had some down time. Especially while baby was sleeping and no visitors were in the room. My hubby for sure used it because I took the time to rest when I could! As far as letting everyone know we divide the obvious family and friends who we want to personally call. Between him, his mom, my mom, and our sisters....everyone knows. Both of my previous pregnancy I've been induced so everyone knows there's a baby coming! I'm hoping to be induced with this one so we will just do the same! Everyone else will just have to check their facebooks for an update on my status ....

I know with my daughter they took her after she was born to bathe her and run tests. That took a few hours and gave me enough time to post my status and let friends know.

jaejaevee · September 2010

My friends from my date board on TK have one set up for stuff like this. It's not so much a tree as 2 of us split the contact list and send out a text to people on our half of the list. This way, the person having the baby only has to remember to text those first two.

I just let my family take care of themselves - I text my parents and he texts his. We let them take it from there. With DS, we were both on FB and stuff the day we got home from the hospital so we continued to spread the info that way.

IAM4UK · September 2010

Everyone has our blog in which it will be updated. I will be calling our parents and siblings and that is it. Everyone else will have to find out either via our blog or through our parents. It worked great for when we had DD. I was in the hospital on bedrest and had an emergency c-section. They followed the blog so they didn't bug us.

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