How are you going to announce?

juliamay08 · October 2015

Wondering how everyone else plans to announce that they are pregnant?
Thinking of doing it on Thanksgiving, but don't know how.

likeabel · October 2015

We'll probably send out a Christmas card the beginning of December to our friends and family announcing it! I was briefly looking on Pinterest and saw a card idea that said "The best gifts don't come under the tree" I started bawling my eyes out when I read it so I'll probably design something based around that.

goldie987 · October 2015

We already told my in-laws because they were in town. They're big mets fans so we gave them a little mets onesie for "luck" the night of game 1. Not sure what we are going to do for my parents since I dont want to wait for thanksgiving but we don't see them until then.

Rawa1416 · October 2015

We made DD a shirt that says big sis. When we make our big announcement I'll probably put her in it reading a big sister book for a photo opp.

ecolton01 · October 2015

I'm also going to tell everyone at thanksgiving if everything is still ok then . I have only told my sister and mom only because if something happened they would totally understand . I am hosting thanksgiving this year because we just built a new house so we are having both sides of the family there (should be 30-35) family members there since we both have huge families . I am going to make little post cards that say someone at this table is eating for 2 and when I set the table ( I am borrowing picnic tables and setting them end to end so we can all sit at one table ) I am going to put them under everyone's plate . Then after I have everyone sits down I am going to tell them all there is a surprise under their plates and watch the tears fall

ecolton01 · October 2015

This is how I told DH lol . Sorry for the pee stick it was part of the photo

CopperLane · October 2015

We are going to announce with our families over Christmas. Both of our fams are spread all over the country, so waiting for a holiday is the only way to get everyone together. I'm going to give my grandma a picture board that says "only the best grandmas get promoted to great grandma" and clip on a pic of the ultrasound. That's how my side will find out. Still figuring out what to send his side because his family is even more spread out. We already told our parents via FaceTime. We won't announce on social media until we find out the gender (if we do decide to officially announce on social media).

satcher08 · October 2015

We are getting DD a shirt that says "Every trouble maker needs a partner in crime. Mine is arriving in June 2016." We're just going to put her in it and wait for our parents to notice. We will probably just take pictures of her in the shirt to announce to others.

Lilwatz · October 2015

We announced today. We wait for the heartbeat--at that point, we are comfortable sharing. We announced our first by putting up a picture of me and my husband and he was wearing an "I

My Pregnant Wife" t-shirt. Today we posted a picture of him in that shirt, me and DD in an "I

My Pregnant Mommy" t-shirt. It's been a huge hit!!!

BlackAndGold09 · October 2015

We gave out cards saying "and then there were four" on one side and Baby p 2.0 coming June 2016 on the other side. All immediate family knows and some close friends. We have a shirt for dd that says big sis and will take a pic of her in front of the u/s next friday at my first appt

hockeyfan42 · October 2015

My parents are visiting next week and driving the truck they just bought. I'm going to go admire it and ask if they think two car seats will fit in the back. DH will just call his parents. I sent the attached picture to my two nerdy best friends who are fellow GoT fans. I won't do a social media thing, DH hasn't decided.

Thought about incorporating it into our Christmas cards, but I can't find anything that doesn't seem cheesy to me.

ETA: words are hard today

anna.oskar · October 2015

I spent an evening making a fun announcement picture that I'll probably just post on FB when we're ready to announce and maybe print a few out for myself and the fam. I'm so proud of it, it's adorable!!

itsbronte · October 2015

For DD, we told our parents over FaceTime a little before Halloween, then posted the attached picture a little before Thanksgiving (she was due is June too).

This pregnancy, we told our parents at a lunch we had together. We will tell the rest of the family when we see them at Christmas. I'll probably sketch something similar to what I did with DD to let friends know over social media, but this time we are waiting until we know the gender for the widespread announcement.

fishwife799 · October 2015

We already told our immediate family. After my first appointment I will tell a couple close friends. We will do a sex reveal photo shoot and probably post the pictures on Facebook and that will be our super public announcement.

morganclairecampbell · October 2015

Is it weird that I'm thinking of not announcing it? I've already told my closest friends and family, but I'm not totally one for putting things all over Facebook. I thought it'd be funny to anniunce it on Facebook with a photo after the birth haha.

jennk0118 · October 2015

I bought my son a shirt that says that he's going to be a big brother but he'd rather have a racecar. We are announcing it at Thanksgiving. My mom and my closest friends figured it out already.

AmberLiz99 · October 2015

morganclairecampbell said:
Is it weird that I'm thinking of not announcing it? I've already told my closest friends and family, but I'm not totally one for putting things all over Facebook. I thought it'd be funny to anniunce it on Facebook with a photo after the birth haha.

I never officially announced it in FB with either of my other pregnancies. Some people figured it out from pictures I was tagged in, but I didn't do the big online announcement. Anyone we talk to outside of FB found out from us, so it didn't seem necessary. I do post pictures of my kids though

SweetMamaJune · October 2015

These are all great ideas! DH and I are waiting for Thanksgiving after we have an HB. I'm just so nervous about the HB that I haven't thought this through! I'm thinking that we'll tell our families that we renovated the spare room and bring them up there to find baby items. Queue freak out and crying!

tabs88 · October 2015

We're doing a big Christmas present for our whole family filled with packing peanuts and some weights to make it seem heavy. There will be a little wooden heart attached to string that they'll pull. It'll be attached to our ultrasound and say "Little Peanut coming June 2016." Then we'll mail out Christmas cards to the rest of our family and friends; it's really cute and just says "Love and Joy,

AmberLiz99 · October 2015

It's our third so my family is likely to be more surprised than excited

I haven't thought of any really cute way. I'll probably tell family after we see the heartbeat on the 2nd, I just don't know how yet

RMM1204 · October 2015

DH and I not want to share the news with anyone but our parents until I'm 12 weeks. Next weekend (when I'm 6 weeks) were having our parents over for brunch and hoping to put a picture of our first ultrasound on a USB, plugging it into our tv, and telling our parents we want to show them a clip of our wedding video

queenklau · October 2015

Hi all, we already told our parents and my best friends through FaceTime after seeing the HB at 6w. I won't announce it on FB and just let people figure it out from pics I am tagged or from seeing me in person as I am showing. Let's see how early people start figuring it out.

MAbride0808 · October 2015

Most of our family knows because they supported us in our IVF journey. I ended up having to tell many people at work too because of all the bleeding I've been having. I'm a teacher and needed a lot of support of the people around me. I felt it was unfair to ask them to help and not tell them why. That being said I think we are going to do a picture of DD holding Mickey Mouse with a caption saying "Sorry Mickey we can't come visit you next year. I'm getting a new sibling instead." We have/had a trip to Disney planned for July 2016 which will now need to be canceled.

umhassoon · October 2015

I really want to copy an idea I saw on Instagram where we take a picture of DS crying in his crib (usually cries when he wakes up to get my attention) with a sign attached to the crib saying "eviction notice : you have 6 months to move out as new tenant will be arriving June 2016" ill post this to my family whatsapp group in December at some point! We live abroad so that's my best option!

CourtJack · October 2015

Everyone has super adorable ideas. I'm thinking we may just do the big sister big brother shirts (for our two kids) at our next family gathering and wait for someone to notice. I don't think we're gonna post on FB this time around.

jerseybroadwaybaby · October 2015

We also got this photo taken...so it's an option

NamelessAria · October 2015

DH and I are planning on telling his family at Thanksgiving. We're probably waiting to tell my family at Christmas. We'd like to tell people in person and that's the only way to do that really.

I don't plan to announce on Facebook at all. I still have a lot and I mean A LOT of people I'm "friends" with on facebook from college and such. Those people I had 1 class with and added in case I needed to ask about notes or something and then never spoke to again. I have absolutely no idea how many of these "friends" would have it come up in their news feed and possibly be upset because they're having trouble TTC and then see my drive-by announcement. I suppose I could go through and unfriend all the people I don't actually know but... aint nobody got time for that!

As far as how we're telling people: DH and I are still disagreeing. I really wanted to tell his mom with a cute card like "We think you're just grand!" (then inside) "So grand in fact that we've decided to add it to your name. Congratulations Grandmother!*"
*Offer valid starting June 28, 2016

But of course DH was like "nooo that's cheesy!" He said he wants to do something like "We're adding to our family!" and then have a picture of Him, me, our cat Dex and our new cat (that we haven't adopted yet but keep talking about getting so Dex has a playmate). And then be like "Just kidding! We're having a baby!" I'm not sure how I feel about that plan. Basically, so far we've only managed to disagree on everything.

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MamaNicoleof3 · October 2015

I want to take a video of us hearing the heartbeat for the first time and send it in a text to my parents. We had a very difficult MC last year and haven't told anyone yet because of that. I'll be 11 weeks at that point, so feeling okay about sharing.

mmakitten · October 2015

We are waiting until after the ultrasound to tell parents, we will give his parents "grandma/grandpa" birthday gifts for their birthdays the following week, then we celebrate Christmas with my family a week later, same idea. For friends, we plan to take a photo at the Star Wars premier and label it "Baby's First Star Wars". Did I mention we are nerds?

BakerBird525 · October 2015

I think we'll tell our immediate family on Thanksgiving. I'll be exactly 10 weeks and will have already had my first u/s and hopefully heard the heartbeat. DH wants to say the prayer and incorporate it into that. Then tell the rest of our family and friends via x-mas cards and maybe an announcement on x-mas?? Not sure if I actually want to announce on facebook yet though.

jenniferhasler · October 2015

We told both our parents already. And some close friends. We have a Mc earlier this year so we won't be telling out extended family until after our first trimester. We will be together for a Christmas get together so I've kind of been thinking of ways to announce it a bit but probably won't really until after our first ultrasound

vanessa11411 · October 2015

I've already told a few people but for the actual announcement, I'm thinking of doing something Disney related. We're pretty obsessed and we go to Disneyland at least a couple of times a month. I was thinking of something like the picture below. But we're going to wait a while until about 12 weeks since I had a mc in April. We're trying to be cautious this time around.

jerseybroadwaybaby · October 2015

vanessa11411 said:
I've already told a few people but for the actual announcement, I'm thinking of doing something Disney related. We're pretty obsessed and we go to Disneyland at least a couple of times a month. I was thinking of something like the picture below. But we're going to wait a while until about 12 weeks since I had a mc in April. We're trying to be cautious this time around.

Love this!!! I'm a Disney travel consultant so this just warms my heart!!!

jsl82 · October 2015

We have been debating the Christmas card announcement. We had a MC with our last pregnancy and DH had told a lot of his co-workers and family. Only my boss and parents/brother and a few (under 5) close friends knew on my side. DH had to deal with colleagues from across the country not knowing for most of the next year that we had lost the baby- and congratulating him the next time he saw them. I on the other hand ended up telling more family and friends after the miscarriage- since I felt better with their support (it also stopped all the "are you ready for kids" "when are you having kids" questions).

Since I"m anxious with this pregnancy I like the idea of a fun announcement- it helps make it feel real. But I want to have our NT scan done before we send out the cards (I'll be 13 weeks on Christmas). DH is being even more cautious since he had a worse fall out last time. I am worried about family putting it on social media- we would only be sending these cards to our closest friends and family and don't want it announced on FB.

Jason&Erin82507 · October 2015

We plan on telling extended family at Thanksgiving dinner and I may text an ultrasound pic to close friends wishing them a Happy Thanksgiving and telling them about the turkey in my oven lol (ok maybe not in those exact words, but you get the jist...) My 12 week ultrasound is scheduled for two days before, so I will be more comfortable sharing.

lyoash31 · October 2015

@vanessa11411 I love that! We went to WDW this past August with my family and had planned on telling them then about our pregnancy and doing something like this for FB, but I miscarried in June. We're huge Disnerds. Now we have to come up with an alternate announcement. I'm thinking of hiding an extra stocking on the mantle at my mom's house on Christmas morning and seeing how long it takes everyone to notice. We all get stockings still, so there's already going to be nine on the mantle. I'll be 12 weeks then.

theatremandy · October 2015

I have no idea. This one was a surprise, so something funny, for sure. I thought about having a pic of all the boys wearing "I'm the Big Brother" shirts. Or maybe a pic of our stockings with everyone's names, but an extra one on the end. I'm open to suggestions....

ahernandez16 · October 2015

We told our immediate families in person or over the phone as soon as we found out. We're waiting until my first ultrasound next week to announce. It's kind of early, but eh. For the last 3 years, we've always gone all out for Halloween (last year he was Ted and I was Mark Wahlberg's character, John. That was fun.) Anyway, hubs is going to be the Cat in the Hat and I'm going to be "Thing 1." The costume I bought also came with a "Thing 2" patch so we're going to velcro that one to my belly, take a picture like we usually do to post on Halloween and announce that way. This is my first pregnancy so we're really excited!!

joyful08 · October 2015

My husband and I weren't planning on waiting very long to tell everyone but we are going to Disney for Christmas! So we are going to take a picture in front of the castle with a pink and blue balloon and put "prince or princess?" on it. Then we will show it to our family when we get back the day after Christmas (I'll be 13 weeks).

jerseybroadwaybaby · October 2015

ahernandez16 said:
We told our immediate families in person or over the phone as soon as we found out. We're waiting until my first ultrasound next week to announce. It's kind of early, but eh. For the last 3 years, we've always gone all out for Halloween (last year he was Ted and I was Mark Wahlberg's character, John. That was fun.) Anyway, hubs is going to be the Cat in the Hat and I'm going to be "Thing 1." The costume I bought also came with a "Thing 2" patch so we're going to velcro that one to my belly, take a picture like we usually do to post on Halloween and announce that way. This is my first pregnancy so we're really excited!!

I read this real quick and thought it said "we told our inmate families in prison"
Pregnancy brain much?!

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MamaNicoleof3 · October 2015

jerseybroadwaybaby said:

ahernandez16 said:
We told our immediate families in person or over the phone as soon as we found out. We're waiting until my first ultrasound next week to announce. It's kind of early, but eh. For the last 3 years, we've always gone all out for Halloween (last year he was Ted and I was Mark Wahlberg's character, John. That was fun.) Anyway, hubs is going to be the Cat in the Hat and I'm going to be "Thing 1." The costume I bought also came with a "Thing 2" patch so we're going to velcro that one to my belly, take a picture like

I read this real quick and thought it said "we told our inmate families in prison"
Pregnancy brain much?! )
Dyyyyyyying!!!

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