Fighting the FB announcement urge

apollonia10 · November 2011

Before today, I had decided to do the FB announcement around St. Patrick's Day, or at the very earliest, Valentine's Day. But today I log on and THREE of my friends are announcing that they're pregnant - all due in June! I am such an AW sometimes; I just want to say "ME TOO! ME TOO!" but I know it's not a good idea. The secret kills me sometimes...

kzawisl · November 2011

Step away from the keyboard! (unless it is to post here, of course).

I had 3 FB annoucements the week I got my BFP, and I know how you feel!

emoxymoose · November 2011

We told our immediate family first and then decided that later on we would tell friends.. unfortunately someone posted a stupid comment on FB and people's feelings were hurt that they found out that way instead of us personally calling them and telling them. Facebook makes people feel less important, although tempting it's not worth it.

Marisajean01 · November 2011

I have a bunch of friends on FB that are pregnant. I am really holding back about it too. I think I am going to wait until I know if this baby is a boy or girl!! Then I will make the announcement. Let those other friends get their time and then you will get your chance when you are ready!!

megs52881 · November 2011

Not even necessarily FB, but the wait in general is killing me. I feel like it will be impossible to keep it a secret from my family at Thanksgiving. I really want to wait for the US to announce to my family and close friends, but I don't know how I will last another three and a half weeks.

apollonia10 · November 2011

Marisajean01:
I have a bunch of friends on FB that are pregnant. I am really holding back about it too. I think I am going to wait until I know if this baby is a boy or girl!! Then I will make the announcement. Let those other friends get their time and then you will get your chance when you are ready!!

This is what I have to remember. I would be irritated if my pregnancy announcement was immediately followed by someone else saying "Me too!!" Thanks for the great advice!

I'll get it out of my system here: I'M PREGNANT!

1111skye · November 2011

Not that yours will end badly but take it from a 4x miscarriage person...untelling sucks! Luckily I never made a FB announcement but even untelling friends/family sucks! I hear ya on the "me too" thing!

ladymk · November 2011

I have cancelled my FB account for the time being...I really don't want to tempt myself Wink

Jessie_dc22 · November 2011

I feel your pain! My first preg I told right away. This time it took me so long to get pregnant that I'm too worried something will happen and I'll have to start all over again that I've decided to wait. Keeping secrets is just not something I do well so this is waaaaay out of my comfort zone. every day I want to blab to FB about the news! I'm a wimp so I'm going to fess up after our first u/s.

missusbee · November 2011

LaBe44a:
I have decided after everything I have gone through, I will not even be announcing it on facebook. I will post pictures of my every day happenings so obviously I will be pregnant in them, but I will not be taking pictures are certain weeks and telling the world about it. If I don't know you well enough for me to have already told you or someone close to me to tell you, I figure they don't need to know about everything pregnancy related.

I like this approach a lot. My husband may want to make an announcement much, much later on his own page, which I'm fine with, but my own page will be fairly quiet. I also don't plan on posting about preg-related things, as to avoid the inevitable onslaught of unsolicited advice. Example. Me: So tired today! Everyone else: ZOMG SLEEP WHILE YOU CAN BEFORE BABY COMES. Confused

snailsalot · November 2011

Probably not going to say anything on facebook at all even though it's tempting. I want to tell my friends in person around Christmas but I don't think that my 200 facebook friends need weekly updates on the status of my uterus. Agree with Missusbee- It's a good way to avoid unsolicited advice. Of course I won't hide it either, I just find people whose entire facebook profile revolves around their pregnancy and baby to be kind of annoying and I usually hide them. It probably has more to do with my struggle to get pregnant than them though.

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