What are other preemie moms' thoughts on birth announcements? We're proud of our baby, though she came unexpectedly early, but we're not totally comfortable with having her birth announcement photos be of our baby with tubes all over. Should we wait until she's out of the NICU to send announcements (this could be another two months). Wanted to get other moms' thoughts.
Re: Birth Announcement?
I wanted to do them but just never got around to it. I may do one and send it out with our holiday cards (two separate cards) or just put him on the holiday card. My plan if we do a separate announcement was to include one of his going home pictures that they took in NICU and then an updated picture. If we just do the christmas card it will just be a new picture. Also if we do an announcement it will include all of his birth stats.
I can understand why you might not want to send a picture out with the tubes and if you aren't comfortable then don't do it. There is no rule that it has to be a newborn picture!
I bought birth/welcome home announcments on etsy from FourHarpDesigns seller. Very reasonably priced and easy to work with. A link to a sample of the design we used is below.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/95375557/preemie-birth-announcement-welcome-home?utm_source=googleproduct&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=GPS&gclid=CNrQ28SbmLMCFYYWMgodRygA7w
If you want to see Julia's actual annoucement with her pictures, let me know how to post a picture in a reply and I'll do that.
Baby brain. Here it is:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/FourHarpDesigns?section_id=7055961