When will you go FB live?

brandlebugg · May 2013

I keep wrestling with this in my head. I had a loss back in September, after announcing it too early on FB. I'm past my loss milestone, and I just shared the news with our group of close friends last night. We had two good u/s's; baby is measuring 8 weeks, 3 days, with hb of 173, so it looks promising. But it is sooooo heartbreaking to have to go back and untell, especially to a bunch of random acquaintances you kinda know from high school. We have an OB appt scheduled for June 18 (I'll be 11 weeks) where we should be able to hear the heartbeat. If that appt goes well, then I may post on FB after that. I plan on doing an announcement for sure, it's just the timing that I'm trying to figure out. It might be hard to wait until after Father's Day... but we'll see... I definitely wouldn't advise announcing until you've at least had an u/s.

LexGator · May 2013

We will probably share the sex once we know -- more as an easy way to tell friends/family what we're having instead of officially "announcing" the pregnancy.

moosebaby2011 · May 2013

I won't put anything on FB until we've told all of the people in our lives with whom we feel we should share the news in person. Since we won't be telling our close friends until I'm out of first tri it will be a while before FB knows.

alinafed · May 2013

The earliest would be after our big summer trip so around 17 weeks. I already know how I'm going to do it though haha. Last time I was really relieved I didn't post right at 13 week mark because shortly thereafter I found out we had a missed miscarriage a few weeks before, despite two good ultrasounds.

OSUWifey09 · May 2013

I'll blog about it in the next few weeks and post the link to my page, but I won't post a status or any pictures. I'll probably post something after my sister gets married at the beginning of July.

genaruthp · May 2013

12 or 13 weeks. Most IRL friends know

GingerCat20 · May 2013

So I'm not even on Facebook.... Am I the only one?

I was but I took my page down for a while. I needed to break the habit and I have to say I never realized how much seeing everyone else's business stressed me out! I've been off a month, might go back on in a few weeks.

If I do go back I will probably wait until we figure out the gender.

cyndilouwho77 · May 2013

We are holding off telling my folks for awhile because they will most likely not be happy (long story) so after my next apt at 13 weeks we will prob tell them and then tell everyone else. We also had a loss in Nov. and telling everyone about the loss was horrible. So this time I am going to hold back for a bit longer this time, I would love to do something cute on Facebook though...I know lots of my friends and family will be elated and that's how we all stay in contact.

runnergrl6675 · May 2013

After the anatomy scan.

katyms7 · May 2013

I do not think I will announce on Facebook. I have made a lot of friends from my loss support groups and I have a best friend dealing with infertility right now. We will tell those that are close to us in person. I don't need high school friends and random work people knowing. Especially having friends who would do anything to have a child, I don't want them scrolling through and find this.