telling the world

MoxyByProxy · January 2014

Has anyone put together what they are doing on this?

I told my mom.. absolutely no junk in the yard to announce baby.. I dont think its a good idea to tell the neighborhood. . Hey.. I now have a tiny person particularly since we live on a busy street.

Do most ppl just use fb now? Is there a way to limit who of your friends see these pictures.. the close friends and aquaintences settings kind of confuse me.

Tia!

RondackHiker · January 2014

I'm not quite sure what you're asking.

I think you're asking how people will announce baby is here? What did you do for the other babies?

We will call close family and friends. More distant friends will get a text. I'll share some photos on Facebook just so everyone can see (not everyone has a cell to get picture messages).

As for Facebook settings... They're not that hard. Go look at them. You can control if friends or friends of friends can see your photos. You can sort friends into groups and limit what they see. But if there's someone on your list who you don't want to see baby photos... Why are you friends with them?

ahare2009 · January 2014

We will probably make a Facebook announcement and send birth announcements/newborn pic to family and close friends. And you can limit who can see your albums on Facebook. When you create it, there's an option to choose friends, anyone, or custom where you can select certain people.

Scottnsaranhenri · January 2014

My MIL will probably be at the hospital already, pacing the lobby. But our first call will to be our friends to bring Big Brother. We agreed not to tell anyone anything until he gets to see the baby & find out the gender. After that, it will probably be some group texts & emails to extended family & friends. We might after a few days put an announcement on IG- but we are pretty anti-social media. I figure, word will get out without me making a giant announcement.

JackieP1023 · January 2014

I plan on having DH text/call his immediate family and mine right away. Then close extended family. Everyone else can wait until we are ready to share pictures on FB. (Which will probably be pretty close to right away). We have a lot of people pulling for us, and anxiously waiting to hear the good news.

MoxyByProxy · January 2014

RondackHiker said:
I'm not quite sure what you're asking.

I think you're asking how people will announce baby is here? What did you do for the other babies?

We will call close family and friends. More distant friends will get a text. I'll share some photos on Facebook just so everyone can see (not everyone has a cell to get picture messages).

As for Facebook settings... They're not that hard. Go look at them. You can control if friends or friends of friends can see your photos. You can sort friends into groups and limit what they see. But if there's someone on your list who you don't want to see baby photos... Why are you friends with them?

Honestly.. I had a falling out with my father and dont want those on my fb to "share" the pics. Or at least id like to make it less accessible. I have a lot of that side of the family on fb but I havnt been public about distancing myself.

Ill look more into sorting out the settings for the albums. I thought it was a per contact setting.

As for the other kiddos.. that was before social media and picture messaging became popular. We just called grandma and she told the world lol

MoxyByProxy · January 2014

And yes.. was curious to see what the norm was now

NoelMarieFrey · January 2014

We will be calling our close friends and family, after that were just going to post an announcement on Facebook for the rest of the family and friends to see.

magentawarped · January 2014

Phone calls and photo texts first, Facebook when I get around to it. There's no one on my Facebook who I don't want seeing my kid. I think you can set it so pictures can't be shared, but I've never tried it.

cauliflowereyes · January 2014

People put stuff up in the yard? I've never heard of that before! Would that attract baby-creepers, or am I totally paranoid? lol!

I think I'll put one nice photo up on Facebook, since I mostly just have close friends, family and good co-workers on there anyhow. Yep.. that'll be kinda fun. I like doing homemade cards and announcements too, so maybe I'll get around to doing that and mailing out a batch in the first few weeks!

Family and bestest friends will all get phone calls and stuff day-of, and some friends will get texts and text pictures!

MoxyByProxy · January 2014

If we lived on a culdac or subdivision dont think id be so anti sign.. ive seen so many cute ones! Weve only lived here since june and I sadly know NONE of my neighbors and live on a main street in a small town.

NoelMarieFrey · January 2014

@Bookshelves I secretly want a yard sign too! Maybe some balloons tied to the mailbox as well! I did this for my sister when she had my niece, and she was so surprised/happy

nebraska84 · January 2014

We will send a birth annoucement, we won't post anything on facebook.

ziggy903 · January 2014

Our parents knew the c/s was happening that day. We texted a photo and stats a couple hours later, when we had gotten a chance to do anything not-baby related. My family informed extended family members.
A few hours later, I posted a couple pictures and his stats on Facebook.

More specifically:
Our c/s was decided at 11am and scheduled for 4pm, he was born at 4:35, we told family around 6(and mil pitched a fit about how we waited so long... Hi, I was in recovery and baby is in the nicu, give us time), and Facebook was told around 9pm? I don't remember what time. Friends knew we were at the hospital for two weeks, and super close friends knew the c/s was happening that day- but nothing about time.

RondackHiker · January 2014

You can't prevent photos from being shared, but like PP said they maintain your privacy settings. So if only friends can see them, you're set (though friends of anyone tagged in the photo can see it).

People can still save your photos and post the photos themselves.

If there are people you don't trust, block or defriend them.

boogerbearoriginal · January 2014

You can't stop people from sharing your photos on FB - you can limit who sees them initially, but from there those people can share at will.

We don't plan to do a yard sign, I don't really know of anyone who does that although I don't know that there's anything wrong with them just not really a thing by me I guess.

We will call/text close family and friends, post on FB at some point and send out birth announcements to extended family/friends (well close family/friends too but they will already know).

MoxyByProxy · January 2014

Good point! I tried to quote Rondak but having issues.

I know social media comes with those risks and if they want to go through the trouble of save and sending what can you do really.. nature of the beast.

Its sad that I have to even consider it for one person.. but its complicated. If my father wants to see a pic.. we are at a place in our relationship that I feel he needs to ask. (Sorry for the tmi on that)

JackieP1023 · January 2014

Regarding the photo settings: PP have it right. Most of my photos on FB are not restricted, but I do have an album of photos from our 2nd tri loss, and because of the nature of the photos, and the fact that i don't want them all over the place, I have it locked down to a couple of groups of people (family/close friends).

daisyMaryGirl · January 2014

We will call our family when we get admitted to the hospital. In-laws live 2 1/2 hours away to give them time to get to the hospital. My dad is a truck driver, so who knows where he will be.

We are strictly no Facebook until we post something. We do not want any pictures on Facebook until both sets of Grandparents have physically seen her. Her gender was revealed on Facebook about 2 seconds after we cut the cake.

After she is born, I will get together a birth announcement to send to everyone on our mailing list.

jdubh · January 2014

We will text our close friends after I'm out of recovery. I'm sure I'll probably upload some pictures to IG and FB while we're at the hospital.

When we have newborn pictures taken we will probably run it in the local newspaper.

shellbell3845 · January 2014

LaurLaurLaur said:

NoelMarieFrey said:

@Bookshelves I secretly want a yard sign too! Maybe some balloons tied to the mailbox as well! I did this for my sister when she had my niece, and she was so surprised/happy

I would love this.

I secretly want to make a BABY GIRL wreath for the door, but that seems like something someone else should make me.

I not-so-secretly want a yard sign or flag or wreath or mailbox balloons or something. I've been dropping oh-so-subtle hints. Which is probably worse than doing it myself.

littlepig2 · January 2014

LaurLaurLaur said:

NoelMarieFrey said:

@Bookshelves I secretly want a yard sign too! Maybe some balloons tied to the mailbox as well! I did this for my sister when she had my niece, and she was so surprised/happy

I would love this.

I secretly want to make a BABY GIRL wreath for the door, but that seems like something someone else should make me.

this! my mom made a wreath for my sister and put balloons on her mailbox. I told her the other day that it would be cool if she did that for me... and maybe even a yard sign since my neighborhood has mailboxes on the houses and not at the street. (walking mailman instead of a truck.)

ahare2009 · January 2014

For all the mamas in SW Ohio area.

There may be other similar things in other regions in the US. I googled Stork Rentals and the city.

BethK22 · January 2014

ahare2009 said:

For all the mamas in SW Ohio area.

There may be other similar things in other regions in the US. I googled Stork Rentals and the city.

I LOVE these! Sigh. Stupid creepers ruining all the fun.

cksmith29 · January 2014

I don't have a huge amount of people on Facebook since people annoy me so much, so I have decided to do a picture/name announcement there. It's the quickest and most efficient way to let everyone know. I haven't actually announced my pregnancy on Facebook, so the baby picture will have several people wondering WTF?

I like the yard sign idea. Most of my neighbors are family and people who have known DH's family for years, and they would love to see that. Hmmmmmm......

littlepig2 · January 2014

Party City and stores like that have the signs you can fill out but I think they have blank ones too. they're not expensive and you don't have to worry about returning them to the store when you want to take them down!

kt_arr · January 2014

@MoxyByProxy - I'm in a similar situation with my Dad's side of the family. After I call/text pictures to close family and friends, I plan on sharing through messages on Facebook. That won't necessarily stop anyone from posting pictures of their own, but it at least makes it a little more private and controls who you share with.

@LaurLaurLaur - The last time DH came home from deployment I saw a TON of babies with these signs! One baby was wearing a onesie that said "Taking care of mommy until daddy gets home." So many tears.

slwprincess · January 2014

We will do a FB with stats then a real birth announcement a few weeks later. I don't have anyone on FB that I can't trust so it's not a concern for me. My mom did do balloons on our mailbox when we came home with DS. But I made DH take them down that night b/c I'm paranoid.

djtippietoes · January 2014

I kind of want a big stork in my yard too.

clozgoblu · January 2014

nebraska84 said:

We will send a birth annoucement, we won't post anything on facebook.

This. We'll call close friends and family right away, and do an old school (mailed) announcement for the broader family/friend set. While I'm not aopposed to FB, my mom tends to overshare everything, despite some requests from me to keep certain things private. As a result, nothing at all about my pregnancy is on FB now, and nothing about the birth will be there either.

mdr619 · January 2014

Like PPs, I think we'll do the standard text/pic to close friends and family. Once we're home and settled I'll post it on Facebook and send out birth announcements to those with no fb account (aka older family members).

coffeyandyogapants · January 2014

Same as most, we plan on doing a fb post with pics once we are settled. I want to make sure we are the first to post though so they hear it from us first. Then, we slso plan to do an announcement card to close family and friends.

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