Second time around

rjacques · October 2013

For those of you who are pregnant again, did you do anything special to break the news? I POAS this weekend, twice, and although it wasn't a dark plus sign it was definitely a plus sign! I would like to tell my DH in a creative and fun way and possible involving my 14 month old.

Any suggestions? How did you reveal your second (third, fourth, etc..) pregnancy?

amaite · October 2013

No suggestions, but congrats!

sadeathe · October 2013

Congratulations!

Albert's my only one, so no suggestions here, either! I'm interested in what others contribute though.

CrazyDaisy8 · October 2013

Maybe a shirt that says Big brother in training or something cute like that for your LO?

I am not really creative but congrats!

Toni79 · October 2013

Ohhh! Congrats!

I've only got one LO, but before getting pregnant, I always wanted to be able to surprise DD with the news. Unfortunially we had to do ART (IUIs and IVFs), so that took the "surprise" out of things!

With halloween this week, maybe you can incorporate it that way?

I just did a quick google for halooween pregnancy announcements:

https://pregnancy.about.com/od/announcingyourpregnancy/ss/halloweenann.htm

Consider letting your jack-o-lantern tell the story. You could carve baby related things like rattles, baby faces, etc. You could even do morning sickness as a pumpkin - a jack-o-lantern throwing up! One mom wrote that she opened the top of the pumpkin and buried her positive pregnancy test into the goop. Her husband found it as he was carving...
Play trick or treat, the game. Ask your husband, "Trick or treat?" If he says trick, you can say, "I'm not pregnant." If he says treat, you answer, "We're expecting a baby - what a treat!"

When we told our families (at christmas 2011) we had M&Ms made ... they were red and green ... with 4 differant messages:

New
Miller
Arriving
August 2012

We put them out and waited to see how long it too for people to catch on! Maybe something like this only with orange and green M&Ms, and maybe have your LO give them to your DH as part of a special halloween gift.

GL!

rp-chicago-mom · October 2013

Tell him to read LO a book and put the news in the book.

I put a single baby penguin ornament on our undecorated tree when I told H. I saw a bumpie's sister carve a big hole in a pumpkin and put a baby pumpkin inside it to signify the baby. You could do that.

rp-chicago-mom · October 2013

Oh and CONGRATULATIONS!!! Whoohooo! A12 is baby making central!

WhtRssnGrl · October 2013

Congrats!!

rjacques · October 2013

Thanks ladies! @Toni79 those are great ideas! So creative but am not sure I could pull those off this week. I do like the shirt idea and maybe seeing how long it takes him to read the shirt and understand what is going on.

When we had DS my DH knew I was POAS stick it took the fun out of telling him. This time around I want it to be a fun surprise!

Thanks again!

brandyleighxx · October 2013

Congrats! I wanted to tell DH in a cute way but he was the one that convinced me to POAS and was there for it. Some of my thoughts were:

1. If I'd gotten knocked up closer to Christmas, giving him the pos preg (a fresher one) as a gift.
2. Literally put a loaf of bread in the oven and ask him to check on dinner in the oven for me...

sdlaura · October 2013

Congrats!

sourapplemartini · October 2013

DD wore a big sister shirt to tell my parents. I shoved the pee stick in DH's face and said LOOK!

Manda-Kay · October 2013

CONGRATS!!!

Ladiebug710 · October 2013

Congrats!

thepretzelchick · October 2013

I have no suggestions, but congrats! My announcement for 2.0 consisted of, "Shit. Shit shit shit. Shitty shit shit," and tossing the stick at DH before sobbing on the couch.

CoUnTryBB1 · October 2013

Congrats! Give him a twix bar and the pee stick and then tell him 'why stop at just one" . . . I have no creative ideas, but I like the pumpkin ideas mentioned.