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July 2011 Moms
lizzay
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Let's talk baby & FB
lizzay
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Do any of you plan on announcing your pregnancy on FB? If so when will you/did you do it?
Pictures of baby, will you be posting them nonstop? Or put a limit to what you and family/friends post of baby.
I'm not saying a word until I know the gender, then I will post 'it's a girl/boy!' and that will be it until the birth. And there will not be a play by play of labor/birth. I actually deleted someone for doing that. Just TMI for FB IMO.
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Re: Let's talk baby & FB
I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to announce it on facebook. If it do, it'll be much, much later. Like 3 tri later.
Right now I just plan on putting some baby pictures up after they're here.
After 2 years, Injects, PCOS diagnosis and 2 IUI's, we were blessed with our beautiful twin girls!
Baby Girl #3!
I plan to announce it at some point during 2nd Tri. I don't have any random HS or college friends on FB, for me, it's a place for actual friends/family, so I definitely want everyone to know we're expecting at some point.
But I will not post anything else pregnancy related (complaints, symptoms, u/s, apts, etc). When other people do this I find it's either TMI, AWing, or just plain annoying especially to anyone struggling or even trying to conceive.
We are going to announce the pregnancy on FB sometime next week after my 12 week appointment. However, after the initial announcement, I won't be making very many (if any) pregnancy status updates. Not everyone wants to see that, and I understand (and agree). I won't have any labor updates, either. I don't use FB as Twitter.
I'm sure I'll post pictures once the babe is here, but it won't clog up my wall with them.
Yes, I plan to. I have a lot of friends that I keep in contact with from high school and such only on FB. Also, some family and I only keep in touch on FB. I will anounce when I hit 2nd trimester.
We are announcing the pregnancy via New Year's card, so I won't be putting anything up (and will be deactivating my wall) in the week's time it takes for everyone to recieve the card. They can e-mail me on FB until then.
I will probably be an annoying person who posts tons of pics of the baby. All my friends do and I love looking at them.
We'll miss you sweet Debbie Girl (4.21.12) and sweet Cindy Girl (8.9.12)
We will be announcing the PG sometime after Christmas. We are finally sharing with our family on Sunday and through Christmas. We are sending a Christmas/New Year card out on the 24th for delivery on the 27th that will include in our signature "Baby F *due 7/11*." So sometime before New Year I'll have a blog and facebook announcement.
I'm only a once a week updater or so, so I will not be constantly reminding others of my pregnancy. As for baby pictures, I'll try to be consistent with what I did for DS, in having a monthly folder. AW'ish or not, they are my most commented on photos.
I actually have hidden more than one of my fb friends' updates for that exact reason.
I don't really plan on announcing. If I look preg in pics, fine. Maybe I'll announce what it is. I don't really have a plan. At this point there is only one set of friends who we'd like to tell in person before I care if it starts trickling onto my wall.
Pictures are my favorite thing about FB. I have friends all over the country and would never get to see their kids otherwise. Pictures, whether they are of a vacation, wedding, kids, new house, etc, are never AWish in my opinion.
I plan on writing a post on New Years or the day after thanking people for birthday wishes (Jan 1) and saying that 2011 will be a great year, expecting baby X in July! or something along those lines... I'll be 13 wks.
I will not post "updates" to my preg. Maybe boy/girl if we find out. NO u/s or labor posts/pics.... oversharing imo.
I don't mind pictures posted if I look preg - since I am. Like Mrs.Leah I only post status' maybe once week anyway.
I have a lot of friends from HS and college who while I'm no longer close to, I do try to keep in touch with here and there - mainly through gchat and FB (not phone calls or hanging out since we dont live near each other).... the FB announcement is my way of sharing without randomly calling people I don't really talk to or them hearing through the rumor mill down the road...
BFP#1 11.2.10 | EDD 7.9.11 | HB 7w2d & 8w4d | missed M/C 11w2d | D&E 12.21.10
FSH at 14.5 - 4.21.11 | CCCT - (CD3 8.8,CD10 12.2)| dx w/ DOR @ 28 yrs old
IUI#1 + clomid 8.29.11 (our anniversary)
BFP#2 9.10.11 | EDD 5.21.12 | beta 1 @ 14dpi:232 | beta 2 @17dpi:703 | beta 3 @24dpi:7,174
Baby A HB of 142(7w), 161(8w), 164(9w) | Baby B no HB, Vanishing Twin
This. I have another appt on the 27th where I will be doppler'd one last time before I go FB with this kid...So I will be at 13 weeks. J has told me when ever I feel comfortable making it public knowledge he is comfortable too...
We've already announced on FB and on Saturdays I say "Bebe is now the of a (insert random fruit here)." I've put some of the u/s pictures up and stuff like that. Like a PP said, I have friends and family that wouldn't see this stuff otherwise and they love seeing it. It's FB, so if you don't like seeing it hide me from your newsfeed. However, I will not be putting updates about the labor on there. I don't think I'll even put we're on our way to the hospital. I'll just announce after the bebes are here, if everything goes okay!
Pretty much this.
I was on the fence about it... I mean, it might be an easy way to tell a lot of people, but generally, everyone who needs to know will know already. I was thinking of announcing sort of nonchalantly or alluding to it. I know a lot of people who just give TMI on FB from conception to birth.
And this may sound funny, but I also think children also have the right to some kind of privacy, so I am probably going to limit information and pictures as well after baby comes. We'll see - I might just feel like bragging all of the time. LOL
Pictures are the best part of FB! I love looking at everyone's pics so I'll definitely be putting up pics of my baby. I plan to announce on FB sometime after our 12/22 appointment when I'll be ~12 weeks along.
ETA: I no longer live in the same state as my friends and family so FB is a good way to keep in touch.
Hell. No.
I don't need to receive 10k half hearted congrats for having an occupied ute from people I haven't talked to in 10 years.
Not to mention, I'm know that there are FB friends who are going through IF/Loss, and I don't need to rub my KUed status in their faces by making it appear on their news feed when they log in. I know how blindsiding those PG announcements, play by play, u/s photos, etc were whenever I logged on after my loss, and it was a stab in heart every single time. As a result, I have tons of FHs blocked.
The people who I want to know, will know, and those who wouldn't give two figs anyways, won't.
BFP #3 via cancelled IUI ~ C (2lb 3oz; HELLP) 5/16/11
BFP #4 via the natural (free!) way ~ E (8lb 11oz) 9/13/12
In my last pregnancies I didn't post every week about it or anything like that. Just when there was something newsworthy to post, like the sex of the baby, or "I am going in for my induction tomorrow!"
I have an extremely large family as does DH. Our main form of communication is facebook. If all goes well at our NT Scan on the 23rd, we will be making an announcement.
We have been pretty open with our pregnancy loss and fertility struggles so everyone knows we were trying and trying hard. I think a lot of people are waiting for the announcement.
As for AW updates all the time: no. Maybe a quick update from time to time. Once Love Bug is here though..look out. It's going to be picture central, especially because DH and I are getting a DSLR.
I post pictures of my son every week or two. People who don't like it can hide me or unfriend me. I really don't care. It is for family and friends who actually enjoy them
For this pregnancy, I'll post on Facebook after work knows. Work will be the last to know, in-person. Well into 2nd tri.
Then we'll also share the sex when we find out, which is fun since we did team green last time.
I didn't post anything during labor or close afterward. Too busy to care to. But when we came home, we announced his name and stats that way.
Susan & Mark ... Married June 14, 2008 ... Chicago Area
James Tomasz born 1-5-10
Grace Dorothy born 7-13-11
PROJECT BALANCING ACT: BIO and BLOG- yeah... needs to be updated.
Have GOT to get my mind out of the gutter. Was reading this and for a second was like, "you're not going to post about symptoms or cravings, but you ARE going to post about pregnancy sex?"
Honestly. The hormones. Have got. To stop!
No. Anyone who I want to tell, will be told in person. The same as with DD.
Both DH and I post very limited photos of her on FB, and neither of us are at all cool with other people posting pics of her. If we see any friends who've posted pics of her, we ask that they be removed.
I think when we find out the sex I'll "announce" it - so far everyone I tell I say to please NOT post anything on FB. I absolutely refuse to put up belly or u/s pictures (I don't want the inside of my uterus on the internet). I feel that's a very personal thing.
I won't be "announcing" it on FB. I'll respond to posts on my wall if people I know and have told want to congratulate me. But I won't have a big post about the pregnancy.
I like the idea of it being a secret.
Once the baby is here, I'll definitely be uploading pictures.
I might post something about it on facebook in 2nd tri. I dont think i'll make it to 3rd tri. Im not comfortable with that many people knowing this soon.
My cousin posted something on my wall AND my moms wall yesterday, it must have been literally the minute she found out about my pregnancy. I was at work so I called dh to delete the comment off my wall, and called my mom to delete it off hers. Seriously.. you just don't do that, especially if you can see there are clearly no other comments about it. It means I dont want it on there.. lol
fyi we just announced it to extended family yesterday (aunts, grandmas, cousins etc) but I didnt think anyone would be tactless enough to do that. I got a lot of private messages, which I appreciated, but not the wall post.
DD1, Kathleen 9/15/2007
Here is a great article on maintaining privacy for our little ones online.
https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/10/07/baby.pictures/index.html?hpt=Mid
They will be young kids online and developing their own presence, my goal is to give them a clean online presence, one they can shape on their own. Not judging anyone that does, this is just my belief.