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December 2012 Moms
m21megs
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How are you/have you told the Grandparents of your Holiday baby?
m21megs
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I'm looking for creative ways to tell the to-be grandparents. I've found a few ideas so far:
1. Buying Christmas onesies, wrapping them and giving them to the to-be Grandparents and saying "we found your Christmas present" and wanted to give it to you now, but you won't get it until Christmas.
2. Buying Christmas ornament with "Baby's First Christmas" and saying this is for your tree this year...
3. Tying it in to Mother's Day (for the Grandma's to-be)...but I don't know if I can wait that long! I'm so excited!
4. On my birthday (April 21) tell them I actually have a present I'd like to give THEM.
I like your opinions on any of the above ideas...or if you have others that you have done or heard of, I'm all ears!! Congrats to all the other Holiday Mamas on the Dec 2012 board 
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Re: How are you/have you told the Grandparents of your Holiday baby?
Our first doctors appointment is May 10th and at that time we will also be given an ultrasound. Since that it is right before Mother's Day, we are going to hold out until then.
I order my Mom and my MIL these cute ultrasound frames. I am going to put the ultrasound photo in it and wrap them.
I also got this for my Grandparents.
Because my family is so close, I also go pregnancy announcement cards which I plan to hand out on Mother's Day as well. I made them on Shutterfly and they actually look really cute.
Holding out is very hard but I think it will be well worth it. It's also nice that my husband and I have this secret to ourselves for a little while. We get to take it all in.
I think the ornament idea is great as well!
We are telling my family this coming Sunday on my birthday. I have a friend that is a photographer and she is going to take a photo of us that we found on pinterest. It will be a picture of DH + me = 3. We are going to have the photo put on a cake with the words Coming December 2012 instead of a birthday cake. We are taking the photo today.
I love the idea of giving them Christmas onsies. I was looking at target.com the other day and they have some Christmas onsies on sale online.
Your ideas are all super cute!!
My mom has wanted grandkids FOREVER so when she worked at Scholastic Book Fairs when I was in 6th grade (I'm 33 now to give you an idea how ready for grandkids she was) she bought boxes and boxes and boxes of books for her grandkids. So when we got our BPF for DS (just days before thanksgiving) we arrived at her house for Thanksgiving dinner and I asked her for the books. She knew instantly what we were telling her. My sis and her family caught on quickly as well.
For S/Os dad (who lives about 12 hrs away) we called on Thanksgiving morning and S/O said "Happy Thanksgiving Grandpa!!"
Not sure how we are gonna spill the beans this time around.
We haven't told anyone yet. This pregnancy was such a complete surprise. We have tried everything around including IVF and nothing worked. Two years later here we are. We are very excited but cautious as well. I am over 40 so we are waiting until we are past that 12 week mark. It has been hard not to just blurt it out. We are thinking we will wait until Father's day when everyone will be together. Not sure how we will tell them yet.
Aww, I love all your ideas! Having a baby around Christmas is making the ideas so much fun!
BTW, I also like the idea about announcing you're pregnant during the group photo instead of saying "cheese". My BIL/SIL announced they were pregnant at our holiday party in December and they did it right AFTER the group picture was taken since everyone was standing around...super cute but I kept thinking how awesome it would have been to have everyone's different reactions on camera...precious!
DH and I talked about it and we're deciding to keep this little secret to ourselves until 12 weeks (if we can wait.) We're both busting to tell so I think we'll keep eachother honest! I think we may try to come up with something for Father's Day...maybe we'll try something like the Chirstmas onsie idea. My sister and mom both go out for pedi/manis every Mother's Day and I'm DYING to tell them too book me an appt too and see their reaction. Good luck with whatever you decide, they're all cute!
First of all, I love your ideas!
I have an us scheduled for the 25th so DH was planning on taking video. We were going to upload that and call my parents and ask them to go to a link. (we've been talking to them about refacing our kitchen cabients) This is a good excuse to get my dad into the room to look at the computer. And have them click on the link at bring up the video of the us instead.
My family is in NC so I cant tell them in person and I dont want to wait until we visit them for Memorial Day weekend like I had originally planned.
For DH's parents we are having a dinner based on all food themed baby (baby carrots, baby back ribs, etc). We are going to wait to see how long it takes them to pick up on it. If they dont, we will bring them into the other room to show them a 'video' and play the us video. I cant wait!!
BFP 06/25/17 | EDD 02/24/18 | DS2 02/19/18
We might do something like this but DH will have the video on for the camera, he wants to capture all the screaming our mom's will do!
We are waiting till 12 weeks because we had a m/c before and I'm 34, so I want to have the NT scan first before we tell anyone. It was horrible having to untell everyone and I don't want to go through that again.
So we might put the ultrasound pictures in frames, wrap them in Christmas wrapping paper and give them to our dad's for Father's Day, the dad's don't usually get exciting news first in our families, usually the mom's know first.