When to announce on facebook

drealafave · July 2013

Hi group! I'm 14 weeks and due on January 6th. We've told family and close friends that we're expecting but I'm wondering when to announce it to the FB world. When did you guys post it?

Thanks!

yogi1012 · July 2013

Everyone is different! I personally don't know if I ever will make an announcement. The people in want to know will find out!

ChuggingWater · July 2013

It is a personal decision, and everyone is different.

I mentioned it when I was in the hospital for food poisoning. No formal announcement.

litzo27 · July 2013

I'm going with Never. I mean eventually I'll probably be in a photo with a big bump and people will notice but I don't see the need for an "official" announcement. I did that to family and friends via email/blog.

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Lena122 · July 2013

We'll probably announce after the anatomy scan in August.

pbandjsticktogether · July 2013

I have been on the fence about it. I think there are super creative ways that people have done this and I love it all. I just have to really sit back and think about who I would be telling and I agree with what others have said about the people that we are closest to will know already and the rest might be too big of an audience for me at this point.

A Facebook friend of mine announced with only two months to go, I might do something more like that. Haven't decided yet.

cpm1223 · July 2013

Lena122:
We'll probably announce after the anatomy scan in August.

Us too!

brideandbreve · July 2013

We announced with DS at 12 weeks, and we'll do the same this time around.

I'd rather just make a little announcement and go on with my life than have to do face-to-face conversations with everyone I meet/see/run into.

TNgoldengirl · July 2013

We are likely telling Facebook at the end of this week, when my doppler comes in the mail and I hopefully can get it to work. This will give me peace of mind to feel comfortable telling the world. I'll be 11 weeks. We have a lot of friends and distant family we don't always talk to, so they will find out this way, in a cute announcement as well as my blog

PocketofSunshine09 · July 2013

With our son we announced around 14 weeks after we made sure we told all our family, and close friends. This time around we'll do the same

MissRdotS · July 2013

PocketofSunshine09:
With our son we announced around 14 weeks after we made sure we told all our family, and close friends. This time around we'll do the same :

FTM here, but this is what DH and I are planning in doing. Makin sure everyone in the family and close friends know, then we'll make it fb official!

ashybear · July 2013

I'm debating this right now too. Since "skipping" from week 9 to 13 after last week's ultrasound, I'm feeling the pressure to get the news out. My internal debate is twofold:

1 We live and work onsite at a camp/retreat center. Fall through spring, there are only about 20 people onsite, and we are close with all of them. We see them every day, eat most meals together, etc. If we'd gotten our BFP in, say, February, they all would have known by 6 or 8 weeks. But during the summer, our staff numbers swell to 60 people, and we're of course not close with all of them. I am so sick of keeping our pregnancy a secret, but I also feel like with some of these summer folks, it's none of their business and they should just find out on Facebook whenever it comes out, and that it's somehow "not fair" that they find out at the sameish time as someone I've lived and worked with for 4 years.

2 We are going to a friend's wedding on the east coast at the end of July. Initially that would have been right at 12 weeks and a good time to privately, at a nonwedding festivity time, share inperson with our east coast friends who we only see 1 or two times a year. But now that I'll actually be 16 weeks, and I'm already showing, I'm worried about stealing the couple's thunder by just showing up all preggers without having preshared on FB, so it won't have to be a big deal.

Wow, this got long! And I know I'm overcomplicating it! But thoughts are appreciated.

stoneofthor · July 2013

Everyone who I want to tell personally knows by now. I wanted to make sure that family and close friends didn't find out through Facebook or gossip. I figure that the word will start getting out now on its own, especially since I'm showing. In my circle Facebook announcements aren't very common so it was never something I have much thought to.

HereWeGo2014 · July 2013

We announced around 11 weeks. With lots of extended family and friend all over the country, it was the easiest way to get our news out there.

You have to do what you feel comfortable with.

QuintonsMummah · July 2013

cpm1223:
Lena122:
We'll probably announce after the anatomy scan in August.
Us too!

Same here!!

sugarland726 · July 2013

Whenever you are comfortable. Some announce before the pee is dry. I am choosing to wait until the end of this month when I will be almost 17 weeks.

OnBabymaking226 · July 2013

We announced on the 4th of July, and I was exactly 14 weeks on that day. We are both (DH and myself) big FB users, and it is a way we keep in touch with many friends, so we were very excited to do an announcement.

ETA: We made sure all family and close friends were aware before putting on FB. I did not want anyone "close" to feel slighted that they found out on FB.

emstape · July 2013

We're 13 weeks and announced today! We had an ultrasound last week with the NT scan and everything looked good. Of course all of our friends and family already knew. Since it's our first, it's been fun getting so many "likes" and well wishes from people we don't see or talk to so much! For our announcement, I took a picture of our cute puppy with a sign that said he was going to be a big brother :

biblionerd · July 2013

We announced the other 2 somewhere around 12-13 weeks, so we'll probably do the same. To me and my facebook it would be weird NOT to announce. It's mostly family and close friends, but not necessarily all of whom I'd feel comfortable or necessary to call up and announce it, but that I'd still like to know. If that makes sense? My BIL and SIL didn't announce because "they're private people and she doesn't like attention" and it was kind of awkward. I'm sure it's not like that for everyone though. They'd kind of like say little things that maybe hinted at it like talking about feeding her cravings at so and so, or since I knew I got it, but other people kind of tiptoed around asking. She is tiny so would post pics where I obviously knew she had a bump but nobody else would say anything (not that anything was needing to be said anyway). It was kind of weird for them to post newborn pics and have a million people comment and say that they had no idea she was pg and why didn't she tell them, etc. etc. Then again, she has a bajillion FB friends because of all of their games, etc. so maybe that's why. I guess I see it as if you're going to post pics or talk about your kids once they're here then what's the difference when you're pg?

Winnieella · July 2013

Everyone is different. My H and I are waiting til we are past 15 weeks.

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