Creative Announcement?

cmcc5 · October 2014

Is anyone out there planning on making a creative pregnancy announcement whether it be to family, friends, or facebook?
Here is what we did with our DD:
I was only 6 weeks when we told our immediate families bc it was fathers day.... my dad opened a onsie that said "Grandpas fishing buddy" and my inlaw got a book that said I love grandpa.
With extended family... we get together on Sundays... We put 4 rolls in oven with #s on them... which stood for the family members that were currently pregnant (we were #4 in the year but my baby made #50 on my hubby's side... from his grandpa, grandma, down to our DD- **THIS BABY WILL BE #51 IN THE FAMILY**).

I know I want my DD to be part of announcement now but now sure what to do.
Just curious of any of your ideas!- we are probably going to do it the first weekend in November (our 9 year wedding anniversary) since going to Drs Apt on Wed 29. I will be 9 weeks.

How about yall?

carolyngrace · October 2014

We have already told close friends & family. For everyone else we're going to do early holiday cards (Thanksgiving cards). Have nice photos taken of my holding my "bump" (I'm going to have to push it out!) and write something like "we're extra thankful this year" (cliche, but I think it's cute).

MrsZolin · October 2014

to announce on FB we are going to hang a clothes line with my bears jersey, DH bears jersey and a little bears onesie

we will then write on the photo something like "Baby Z arriving 2015"

pghctwife · October 2014

We have already told our immediate families via big bro shirt on our little guy. I think Ill post to FB on TG… just something about how much we have to be thankful for this year. Ill be around 12w then, close enough to end of 1st tri. Im trying to figure out how to announce on my locals though (spin offs, not here so my sig isn't a giveaway).

shanaUW · October 2014

We are thinking holiday cards:

"Happy Holidays from the V******** 3: Peter, Shana, and Baby V!"

@carolyngrace great idea sticking your belly out! We are going to get "1st anniversary photos" but of course include a few "expecting" photos in there. Maybe I'll use a balloon? haha

Schnurette · October 2014

We're going to try to wait until Christmas and we'll just sign all the tags and cards with or names and "and baby" at the end and wait to see if anyone notices. I have no a plan if I start showing earlier than that...which I'm concerned I will because the bloat alone is making me look huge lol

With our first we went to our nieces birthday party and I wore a shirt that had my DH's fave team on it that said "future fan" on the belly. And we waited for someone to notice.

For friends etc. We have already told our two closest, and the rest we are going to send out Xmas cards with our family pic on them. DH is a little crazy for this one sports team so we're going to wear matching shirts with the team and LO is going to hold a sign that says "welcoming a new player to the roster June 2015"

Hopeful912 · October 2014

Listening in. I'd like to include DD in a "facebook reveal" but unsure of how we'll do it. We told my mom and step dad over the weekend by having DD wear a "Big Sister" shirt. We will wait a few weeks to tell other immediate family.

nicperdue · October 2014

We did the clothesline with our first, it turned out so cute!

nicperdue · October 2014

We have already told our families and close friends, but to announce on FB we are taking a picture with me and my husband in the background and our daughter in front of us holding out the sonogram. We have family pics scheduled the weekend after our first ultrasound, so it works out perfectly.

camdensmom32 · October 2014

This is how I plan to share the news. I wanted my son to be part of it.

ARJ6511 · October 2014

We are going to get a big sister shirt and let her loose in a room of family members and see who notices, ha. I want to wait a little bit longer before telling people.

We are also doing the cheesy Thanksgiving announcement on FB. I hate it and love it at the same time!

klaG101 · October 2014

I've already told my close family and friends. For a facebook reveal we are going to do the 3 of us standing in the background and pumpkins in focus in front of us with a little one for the baby and have it say something cute like adding a pumpkin to our patch. I havent thought it all the way through yet. Anyone nervous about announcing too soon? I lost my last baby at 10 weeks. I announced it on facebook right away. I don't regret announcing early because I wouldn't of been able to get through it with out all the loving support I had. But this time idk if I want to wait or just do it, I'm horrible at keeping this a secret!

Ashgreg14 · October 2014

Short history. We have been together for four years married for almost ten months BUT our wedding is next Friday October 17 ( We eloped so I could be on his insurance and only very close family and friends know) We are going to Disney for our honeymoon and I bought a shirt to wear at the character breakfast to announce our new little one on the way! It says "Future Mouseketeer on the way" with a pumpkin Mickey on the belly! We are planning on putting the picture on the thank you card along with our wedding pictures for our big announcement! Everyone who knows we are married knows we are expecting.

hjdaniels0415 · October 2014

Not even sure what we will do about Facebook and other social media. So sure about telling our extended families. Immediate family, my hubby's boss and my best friend know. We are going to wear cute shirts on thanksgiving. My husband one that says, this guy is gonna be a daddy. Me one about being thankful and pointing to my belly. Our nephew is getting the be too- a big cousin one! We are so excited. Social media will be waiting a while!

esipp000 · October 2014

I made a shirt that has a 6 on the front almost directly on my belly (this will be the 6th grandchild on my side). I'm currently wearing it because I'm on my way to meet baby #5. One of my sisters is meeting me at our connecting flight in Houston and then we fly the rest of the way together. They should notice but if not I made a little onsie to put on my nephew with a 5 on it. We are supposed to Skype our parents later so I'll make sure we're both wearing our shirts when we do. Im weird and like to make people have to think about it a little.

I haven't thought about announcing to others yet. Well one close friend who CrossFits with me is 18 weeks pregnant so I'm going to get two onesies that say WOD buddies for life or something similar. We always joke about wearing tanks to the gym that have the heart on them broken and one says best friends forever.

kmleon83 · October 2014

I am hoping I can hold it in until Thanksgiving to announce to my family. Was thinking of wrapping a picture frame (something like #1 Grandma) with the ultrasound in a pie plate and telling my mom it's a special dessert. My grandma will still be here then (before we migrates back to Florida for winter) and my uncle will be here too so I wanted to do it with everyone together. Although, I do want to tell my siblings beforehand because I want them to film my mom's reaction haha. I told hubs to schedule Thanksgiving with his family for the following day so we could tell them too. For everyone else, I've always wanted to use our puppy in a Big Sister shirt to announce..hubs now wants to go to the beach, take a picture of our fishing pole with a baby pole in the middle. I like both ideas!

KeraG · October 2014

We will announce to my family over Thanksgiving - I plan to show them the photos for our Christmas cards and one will be a shot of "SO + Me + DS + ? June 2014" written in the sand. Everyone else will learn from the Christmas cards. For facebook I am actually thinking of asking my BIL to do a movie trailer type video (he's great with that kind of stuff).

KeraG · October 2014

Fargis said:

My husband, son, and myself were all born in different states. This baby will be born in yet a different state, too. I can't decide exactly *how* I'm going to do it, but I've already made four 8x8 canvases with the four different states cut out in vinyl---and I'll probably make us each a shirt with our home states...a onesie with the new kid's state

I picture a map with pushpin flags with birth dates

ombradellarosa · October 2014

I've decided for the general announcement I want to make a movie poster. Our wedding was Old-Hollywood themed and the invitations were styled after The Hollywood Reporter, so I think it would be a fun update to make a baby movie poster as an announcement, but I haven't decided anything more than that yet.

My mum's birthday was yesterday so since I just found out I thought this was a perfect opportunity. Months ago when all this was theoretical a friend advised me to wait until a special occasion such as Christmas, Mother's Day, or my mother's birthday and Mum said if I waited that long she would hurt me. I was really glad then that I got to tell her on her birthday anyway without waiting hardly at all! (Although that three days felt so long it was like torture!) I gave her a picture frame that says "Our Grandchild" with a nice little sentiment. She looked at it, and at me, and back and forth a few times first in disbelief and then a little hopeful, and I told her she could open her card. It had "Grandma" all over it in different languages and said "Love, DH, Me, and Baby." She screamed and jumped up and down and hugged me and cried. It was perfect.

I'm still trying to figure out how to tell the rest of the family. My brother, in-laws, and BIL all live far away so we're going to have to call them. I want to Skype them to make it kind of special but DH says it's his family so we're going to do it his way and call them on the phone. I'm more worried they're going to tell everyone before we're ready. They don't keep secrets very well.

mountainmama65 · October 2014

We live out of state away from family, so to tell my mom and brother at Thanksgiving, we are going to put a label on our homebrew wine with the ultrasound picture and something like "xxx Family Growers, Cab Sauv, aged with love for 9 months, will be ready June2015". I can't wait! We will tell the rest of the fam when we go back for Christmas, then do Facebook/New Year cards with some announcement with our dogs

dkleid · October 2014

My parents are in FL so after our first sonogram we are going to call mine my EDD is the anniversary of my grandfather death so I'm going to ask my mom if we can make that day a happy one instead of a sad one. His Parents are in town and he wants to go over to see them but Idk if we will have time so we are probably just going to call them. As far as Social Media we haven't thought that far in advance. So I am loving all of these ideas

sharice111 · October 2014

We announced our last one on facebook with a picture at the beach with 2+2=5. My DH and DS together and me and my DD on the other side of the plus side. We will take a family picture with a sonogram for our Christmas cards and then just include due date with our letter we include since we live far away from any family at all... We live just moved to Texas so I want to say something along the lines of everything is bigger in Texas... I don't know yet though... Can't get it right. We have told a couple friends here and my mom but are waiting until Christmas to really tell anyone. It's the first time I've been excited to keep the secret.

aegriffith83 · October 2014

I haven't actually "joined" this birth club yet, but I have been thinking of ideas of how to tell our families as well. We had an ectopic pregnancy in April 2014 and I lost my left tube. We are wanting to make sure baby is growing where it's supposed to before announcing anything this time so we are planning on waiting until Thanksgiving and putting Big Sister to-be in a cute Thanksgiving shirt that says something like "This Little Turkey is Going to be a Big Sister!" ... or I will wear a shirt that says "Eating for Two." It's so fun to think of ideas

Ravenclaw314 · October 2014

klaG101 said:
I've already told my close family and friends. For a facebook reveal we are going to do the 3 of us standing in the background and pumpkins in focus in front of us with a little one for the baby and have it say something cute like adding a pumpkin to our patch. I havent thought it all the way through yet. Anyone nervous about announcing too soon? I lost my last baby at 10 weeks. I announced it on facebook right away. I don't regret announcing early because I wouldn't of been able to get through it with out all the loving support I had. But this time idk if I want to wait or just do it, I'm horrible at keeping this a secret!

I'm nervous, too, but like you said: the support was great to get through it. Now, I enjoy telling people about my angel babies because, even though they're gone, they're still my children.

We told our immediate families already, but for everyone else on Facebook I thought about lining up different size pumpkins to symbolize myself, DH, DS, and a tiny pumkin for the new baby. I'd set it as my cover photo and see who gets it, or maybe label it... haven't decided.

bttfbetty467 · October 2014

I love all of these ideas! Both families are out of state for us so we need some good ideas! We wont be seeing anyone for thanksgiving and I dont just wanna phone them. I might do something funny with our dog. We are definitely "funny" people not "cute". I think w might have our dog and bacon incorporated into the picture...ill have to post it once we announce if we use that idea.

willowprincess · October 2014

We got all 4 ninja turtles from build a bear and had the kids stuff them. We are taking a pic of each kid with their turtle and the final turtle alone. Then I will put their birth year on each pic in a collage.

roots&wings · October 2014

klaG101 said:

I've already told my close family and friends. For a facebook reveal we are going to do the 3 of us standing in the background and pumpkins in focus in front of us with a little one for the baby and have it say something cute like adding a pumpkin to our patch. I havent thought it all the way through yet. Anyone nervous about announcing too soon? I lost my last baby at 10 weeks. I announced it on facebook right away. I don't regret announcing early because I wouldn't of been able to get through it with out all the loving support I had. But this time idk if I want to wait or just do it, I'm horrible at keeping this a secret!

We're doing the pumpkin thing also! Except just pumpkins with personal items by them. DH's hat, My wedding tiara, DD's ballet slippers, DS's superhero cape.. and then a tiny little pumpkin (or two, who knows yet) and then adding text that says "Adding another pumpkin to our patch! June 2015"

I plan on announcing on Halloween. I won't be 12 weeks but I'll be close.

adreajoy713 · October 2014

We got DS a shirt that says "big brother ". When we see the grandparents we will have one of them take off DS coat to reveal the shirt. I would like to do something with a family photo for Facebook. ...maybe something fall related. I'll be stalking this post for ideas

MissIntentional · October 2014

We had our daughter take a picture of her TO DO list and on it "become a big sister" is checked off. I told my mom and husband with a big sister shirt. We will do the same at Thanksgiving for my husbands family.

balderasmama · October 2014

My family was gathered to celebrate my youngest 3rd birthday. I casually mentioned early in the week that we were having pictures taken. When we are all sitting together I offered to show them the pictures and they got to see the picture below. I called my friends out of state and then sent the pic after, and showed the pic to my friends in town. After we told everyone we wanted to tell in person I posted this to FB and IG yesterday. A great memory to keep forever!

8411mommy · October 2014

This was our fb announcement!!

MrsRucinski85 · October 2014

Our family is big on cowboy boots - Ana has had a pair of boots since she was a little itty bitty. So for this one we are going to do a picture with the husband's boots, my boots, the kiddo's boots, and a pair of little john deer boots saying something like coming in June 2015

mellinw · October 2014

I'm enjoying reading ally's post
I don't know what all the abbreviations stand for? Help

CMDD · October 2014

I love all of these ideas! Still haven't told most of the family but when we do I'll send them this photo on text and call them over FaceTime

judi423 · October 2014

I've already told my parents and siblings. I am going to wait until I'm 12 weeks to do the social media announcement since I have so many family members that are out of state. I wanna do something cute and creative. My hubby wants to do something funny lol so we'll see. We had a miscarriage 3 years ago. So I am so excited and praying about this little one

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